Right - 10-Day IL. On the 10th, so it's reasonable to think they could activate him tonight, release him, and replace him with Folty. Just seems like someone would have heard some kind of whisper about that by now. Can always hope, I guess.
Put Folty in my rotation in a league where we set lineups weekly last week when everything pointed to him coming back then FWIW - left him in when they locked today just in case, but don't expect it. Maybe I get happily surprised.
Last edited by clvclv; 09-21-2020 at 04:50 PM.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
So much for Hamels. Jeez.
Is TBD the Braves' most common starter this season?
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
I wonder who comes up now?
AA had a good offseason, but the Hamels signing was a disaster.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
Braves Legend, Cole Hamels.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
That Hamels money would of came in handy at the deadline for Clevinger for a team pinching pennies
jpx7 (09-21-2020)
They weren't pinching pennies pre-CoVid. Lot's of Captain Hindsight takes in this thread.
And like Heyward said, salary was decidedly not the reason the Braves were unwilling or unable to acquire Clevinger. Cleveland seems to have prioritized more immediate help, as the expense of longer-term value; and, if reports are to be believed, they were asking for a pretty large talent premium from the Braves to ignore that prioritization.
Meanwhile, if anything can be learned from the Hamels situation, it's that it might be better in the future to spread that ~$18m between two ~$8–10m deals for veteran starting depth. Pitchers are, if nothing else, volatile—so it's probably better to make two moderately-priced bets than one pricey bet.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
If you listened to the interview with AA closely, he mentioned that they've been in contact with the League Office about 40-Man Roster changes - not sure who else you add other than Folty unless it's Muller. Only arms in Gwinnett not currently on the 40 are Folty, Chacin, Muller, Shuster, Strider, Vodnik - and Culberson.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?