Moustakas

[thethe]

If we're going to open the purse strings, I really hope it's not on Moustakas

Agreed. Just go with internal options for 2018 if that's our best option on FA. I really think Camargo can be league average at a minimum price tag.

[jpx7]

That's the point - who's passable???

After Moustakas and Frazier, your options are Ryan Flaherty, Trevor Plouffe, Danny Valencia, and Yunel Escobar (and you know the brass isn't going back down that road).

Prado seems perennially an option. Who knows: maybe Toronto doesn't feel they can extent Donaldson, and makes him available this winter. Longoria, while on the wrong side of 30, is a player in whom I have a lot more faith in than Moustakas.

[smootness]

That's the point - who's passable???

After Moustakas and Frazier, your options are Ryan Flaherty, Trevor Plouffe, Danny Valencia, and Yunel Escobar (and you know the brass isn't going back down that road).

Plouffe and Valencia are both passable.

[sturg33]

That's the point - who's passable???

After Moustakas and Frazier, your options are Ryan Flaherty, Trevor Plouffe, Danny Valencia, and Yunel Escobar (and you know the brass isn't going back down that road).

If you're making a 5 year commitment based on "best option at the time"... then I'm glad you're not the GM.

Reality is best case the Braves aren't competing seriously until 2020. That means we're 32 year Moose Tacos to put up pedestrian numbers while paying him $20+ M a year.

No thanks.

Give me another scrub next year and re-boot the next off season.

I think if Coppy was trying hard enough he could go trade for a decent prospect like McMahon. I'd use one or two of our million pitching prospects to do it.