I’ll be pissed if we trade gohara. If there is any team that should have a fat pitcher, it is the braves. Right, enscheff?
I’ll be pissed if we trade gohara. If there is any team that should have a fat pitcher, it is the braves. Right, enscheff?
jpx7 (04-01-2018)
msstate7 (04-01-2018)
Not sure why bowman would say sell high....that doesn’t help the braves
Gohara has 4 red flags
Weight
Alcohol use
Lack of a consistent third pitch
Boras as an agent
If he gets you archer I’m in. But you’d have to give up more. I wouldn’t want to give up much more than gohara for most ppl.
I remember Cincy didn't like his medicals as they called off a trade for him over that. So I'd suspect Gohara will need to stay healthy a bit and pitch well this year before one could talk about selling high on him. And I agree that you'd not get enough right now despite his potential.
I continue to hope against hope where Folty is concerned, but I'm afraid I just don't see it.
The 7 Ks against 1 BB the other night were great, and I was willing to write his last spring start off to "working on things" or as a "tuneup", but 85-90 pitches and two gopher balls in 5 IP when they turn the lights on is just more of the same old *hit as far as I'm concerned - even with an entirely dominant camp other than the last start. It's great to hear all the talk from him (and others) about him learning, but he's got a LONG way to go to actually show me something and/or make me a believer in the least.
As of today, Newk and Gohara have longer leashes as far as I'm concerned - hopefully he does something to change my mind.
Last edited by clvclv; 04-01-2018 at 09:45 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?
sell high on folty or newcomb
or don't sign julio
etc etc etc
i'm trying to find out when you guys actually want to compete instead of just always getting the best ranked prospects
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jpx7 (04-02-2018)
Exactly. The idea wouldn't be to trade Foltynewicz just to trade him; but to look at him—assuming a breakthrough 2018 (which is hardly guaranteed, obviously)—as a guy that'd have a lot of value to competitive but pitching-poor teams, and also as a guy set to grow much more expensive through arbitration. So for a money-poor team like the Braves, who also happen to have a lot of high-upside pitching in their organization, it would in such a light be sensible to dangle Foltynewicz as the centerpiece of deals to address some other deficit on the major-league roster (3B, LF, C).
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Jaw (04-03-2018)