After watching this post season....does it really matter?
We had plenty enough talent to win it. We had bad luck. Nats had good luck. I watched a 107 win team lose four straight home games.
I just want to be the lucky team ONE year.
After watching this post season....does it really matter?
We had plenty enough talent to win it. We had bad luck. Nats had good luck. I watched a 107 win team lose four straight home games.
I just want to be the lucky team ONE year.
Unfortunately the state is cursed so just celebrate the ONE we have.Originally Posted by TheBravos
Yes!!! And sets a new contract record for a pitcher.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;......
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
High Flight
by
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
My guess is he opts out AND stays.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Similar to Kershaw last year, but Strasburg would have a ton of suitors if he tested the market.
Today: Eligible players officially file for major or minor-league free agency
November 4: End of “quiet period” during which teams have exclusive negotiating rights with their free agents
Deadline to issue qualifying offers ($17.8MM) to eligible free agents
Deadline to exercise or decline options and opt-outs (unless sooner by operation of contract; Stephen Strasburg & Aroldis Chapman reportedly must decide by November 2)
November 11-14: General Manager Meetings (Scottsdale, AZ)
November 14: Deadline for qualifying offer recipients to accept or reject
November 20: Deadline for adding Rule 5-draft eligible players to 40-man roster
December 2: Non-tender deadline
December 9-12: Winter Meetings (San Diego, CA)
December 12: Rule 5 Draft
January 10: Deadline to exchange arbitration filing figures if agreement has yet to be reached
February 3-21: Arbitration hearing period
Mid-February: Spring Training commences
March 26: Opening Day
Get off my lawn!
Royals have hired Mike Matheny as manager
Get off my lawn!
Highly possible but they have to keep Try and keep Rendon too although I don’t envy whoever signs him
Strasburg and Rendon leaving would be very good for the Braves going forward. Even the Nats keeping them for huge money would still be good news for the Braves.
JohnAdcox (10-31-2019)
I doubt a future 1B/DH is going to be better than Acuna. But he's a damn good hitter.
Not sure why Arizona would make Escobar available unless they were getting a pretty substantial overpay for the return.
That said, they'd make an awfully interesting candidate for AA's first blockbuster if he could make it happen without backing up the truck. Riley plus ??? for Escobar ($7 million), Peralta (projected to make $8.8 million), and Robbie Ray (projected to make $10.8 million).
Showing Julio the door and replacing him with Ray would be a wash salary-wise. Declining Markakis' option and replacing him with Peralta would add $10.8 million (when eating Markakis' buyout). Showing Duvall the door would cover picking up Flowers' option. Plugging Escobar in at 3B and signing Grandal to handle the majority of starts behind the plate (and to give Freeman semi-regular days off at 1B to keep him healthier at the end of the year) would add ~ $27 million. That would put salaries at roughly $132 million (and you'd still need to fill the last bench spot), but it would make for an awfully pretty hot stove roster...
Acuna, Albies, Freeman, Escobar, Grandal, Peralta, Dansby, Ender
Flowers, Camargo, Culberson, ???
Soroka, Ray, Folty, Fried, Wilson/Wright/Anderson/Weigel/Davidson
Melancon, Newcomb, Greene, Jackson, Dayton, Sobotka, Minter, Webb/Walker/Touki/Weigel/Davidson/Ynoa
The problem would be the prospect cost - even if they could be convinced to move those three guys, it would take a whole lot more than Riley and filler prospects, not to mention that you wouldn't control Ray or Peralta beyond this season.
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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?
Where is the difference between Ray and Julio?
Yankees decline option on Encarnacion. Here is how the off-season could play out
1) Braves sign Encarnacion for $15M to play first
2) Braves trade Freeman and Swanson to Indians for Kluber and Lindor
yeah or nay?
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
The Julio option will be most interesting one to me. While he was generally solid, he wasnt even used as a starter in the playoffs the last 2 years. That 11 million could go to other areas on the team, and the Braves do have some other options they can use.
Flowers one is pretty much a lock, and Markakis i can still see get picked up, the issue is he needs to be platooned and Snit wont do that. If all the options get picked up, and most of the arb guys get whats projected, AA will barely have anything to spend this winter with the same holes that were there last winter (BP, SP, 3B cOF).
He'd have to get extremely creative in that.
I think they keep one, but not both, they have an in-house replacement with Kieboom for Rendon. Literally nothing for Strasburg.
LOL...
Ideas centered around Kluber for Inciarte, or Lindor for Swanson plus prospects are crazy enough they just might be possible though.
They are pretty clearly the dumbest organization in MLB now. Hopefully AA can find a way to take advantage of that fact.
How bout Freeman and Wilson for Betts. Then sign Grendal (2/55 3rd year club option 25 mil 10 mil buyout) Moustakas 3/65 4th year club option 22 mill 7 mil buyout and Kendrick 1/7 mil. Grendal plays most every day while Kendrick and Flowers split time.
Soto and/orn Merrifield remain good fits for Atlanta and not particularly good fits for Kansas City.
Mous has just settled for back to back 1 year deals under $10M each, and you want to give him 3/65...$20M+ per year? Let's just say...hard pass.
You've also constructed a 2020 payroll of about $160M+. Again, not likely.
Oh, and it's Grandal.
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