Not sure how you embed tweets on here, but cool AA interview, lot of interesting things he said. Almost traded for Donaldson last year among other things.
Link here: https://twitter.com/680TheFan/status...56229650550785
We are all very capable of adding up the contracts on the roster.
The Braves opening day payroll for 2019 is under $115M. No matter how AA wants to squirm. It is a trivial increase from 2018. Period.
That $120M figure is likely close to the 2019 full year projected payroll for the entire 40 man roster.
We’re not gonna be sellers at the deadline... good Lord.
This team is a serious contender as constructed. If we are there at the deadline- and we will be- AA is going to be a lot more comfortable in a trade situation. He/we will know a lot more about the kids.
I like AA not trading any of them yet. We don’t want to accidentally trade Avery/Glavine/Smoltz etc.....
buck75 (02-18-2019), TheRunningAgent (02-19-2019)
Jesus can we get out of the 90’s. Maybe we trade away BLair, Wisler or sims before they become like Allard is. And I am fine not trading Soroka. Or touki. Or Anderson. Or even wright. But we could have had Paxton for less than those guys. We could have signed Brantley with all this money DD touts on. Jesus. We could have signed one experienced reliever for a few million to help anchor the pen. Instead the master plan will be to wait for the deadline to fill the needs we knew we had this off season. Brilliant.
Coppy
My take on the 680 interview is we can expect AA to be conservative signing FA’s and not trade prospects to win now. I think he had some regrets about the win now moves he made with the Jays. The Hallady, Dicky, Price, Tulo etc. moves to win now really hurt the Jays long term.
I think he is sincere when he says he will not spend to for the sake of spending.
No. I am saying back when Blair. Wisler and Sims were in the top 100 hell the top 50. They could have. I am saying we have to stop thinking every pitching prospect is a hall of famer.
Look at what the relievers are going for. Would you rather have Romo for a few million or Freeman for a few million
Coppy
You sure about that?
Blair was #40 according to BA, and #43 according to BP.
Wisler was as high as #34 according to BA.
Sims peaked at #40.
They were all very highly regarded, much like many of the current prospects
What’s laughable is claiming these prospects are different for no other reason than you follow prospects more closely now than you did back then.
Last edited by Enscheff; 02-19-2019 at 03:14 AM.
I undstand they were “rated” high. My point is that none of those guys had the pure stuff of our current guys. I never understood why Blair was rated so high. Was Sims really that high (I cant remember)?...if so...I never expected much of him either.
I will say I had hopes for Wisler for a minute. He was a head case.
Are you really saying the stuff Gohora, Soroka and Touki are the same as Blair and Sims, etc.?
I know pitchers fail. Heck, all these new guys could. Either way they would be failing with a good bit more talent. That’s my point. They have a better chance, because they are more gifted. I really don’t care what they are “ranked”. Folty and Newk are good examples. They had...by far...the most talent of that crop of pitchers...and look who is left standing. Even though the jury is still out on Newk. I feel these new guys are on a different level. They were definitely higher picks (outside of Sims...which I’ll never understand).
If we go by the “eye test,” we know that Soroka, Touki and Gohara is better than those guys. We don’t know how Soroka will be after the injury but we will know during ST.
I agree that this batch should be on a different playing field in talent than the W-B-S of the worlds. But at one point they had value. At one point we didn’t want to trade Sims because he was our best pitching prospect. I have already said that I am glad we didn’t trade a bunch away to get JTR or trade more than we should have to get Paxton or whoever. But I hope DD isn’t trading guys because he is afraid he is trading Noah again. Holding a guy because he might hit his top 5% is silly.
Coppy