"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
UNCBlue012 (01-24-2019)
Guys are going to come around to the idea that AA probably doesn’t know what he is doing. He is coming from an org that printed money to one that doesn’t and has no clue how to proceed. I will try to stay positive until we can move past his era of mistakes.
Coppy
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
Short term deals are fine. Gio?....Gio?? Nah...please tell me we aren’t gonna sing him for $15mil when we could have had Pollock for 12.
So...you may be right....hell....you’re usually right. I will be very disappointed if that’s the route we go.
Between prospect capitol and payroll flexibility...sure seems like a crap off season.
I know I’m being a bit of a homer, but there just has to be a master plan...right....?
It seems to me AA went from being a huge deal maker in TOR to learning all about value in LA. Now that he's in charge in ATL he has perhaps become a little too risk averse with guaranteeing cash. The upcoming JTR trade will inform us just how risk averse he is being with his prospects as well.
The AA FO seems to have zero appetite for risky contracts on flawed players like Cutch, Pollock or Brantley, and prefers to make low risk plays on flawed players like JD, Mac and Markakis.
I can't really fault him for that too much, even if it leads to disappointing off seasons on paper.
I don't think that at all. I think AA is laser focused on value acquisitions and maintaining some level of flexibility long term. I think he may have been a little too reluctant to commit more than 1 year this offseason, but I trust that he has damn good reasons for keeping everything on a short term basis.
When I said creative, I didn’t just mean trading those guys in a one off. They would have to be moved in a big trade. Just like O’day was with Gausman. I didn’t say it would be easy, but is possible. Julio is very serviceable. He’ll give you innings. He would be a great number four or five.