I still can’t get over the Kela deal. We could’ve easily matched that and should’ve. He’s a stud and would’ve been an important bullpen piece for the next two years. I’d feel a lot better if we had him and Minter in the late innings.
I still can’t get over the Kela deal. We could’ve easily matched that and should’ve. He’s a stud and would’ve been an important bullpen piece for the next two years. I’d feel a lot better if we had him and Minter in the late innings.
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Well obviously whoever it was the price was too high. For much of the day everything started trending towards the Braves being the clear front runner. And the the Pirates came in with the crazy offer in the literal last hour. Sounds like it could have been Archer till they swooped in to me... but if the price wasn't too high for whoever it was, a deal would have likely been done, lol
Could be “coach talk”, but AA said we never really close on a deal with Archer.
People feed things to the media all the time that’s untrue. It could have been the Rays people telling Rosenthal or whomever that the Braves were closing in to make the Pirates up their offer.
despite AA's words i suspect we were, in fact, in on archer until the last minute.
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clvclv (08-01-2018)
JIm Bowden doesn't like our moves. That makes me like them even more.
Super (08-01-2018)
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/7...odgers-pirates
This article at least puts the trade deadline in perspective as it outlines what everyone did in the last couple of weeks.
Not vouching for all their grades, but I think their putting it in the didn't move the needle much category is correct. Braves need outperformance for these moves to make a big impact.
It would be interesting if someone would calculate the net expected wins added from the Braves' moves.
I think they showed support to the team and made some moves that might help, but the things other contenders did were probably bigger on paper.
We will see how it all plays out.
Don't think they're done, based on something AA said on last night's broadcast.
More or less quoting him: "We were in discussions about a left-handed bat, an impact bat, that didn't happen but there still could be something there."
Guessing that's not Harper (duh) but he did not use the word "impact" by accident. But since there were no clues about either deal we made, I cannot ventuire a guess who this is/was.
Jaw (08-01-2018)
Did a quick glance a the hitting league leaders, and tried to find who an "impact" bat would be from a losing team that hits left handed.
Choo (could be traded), Eddie Rosario (highly unlikely to be traded), Brandon Belt (don't see him being traded).
That's all I've got who has an OPS over 800. Don't see where we even have room to plug someone in anyway.