GovClintonTyree (01-12-2017)
Ventura's Stolen Bases
Also no guarantee that doing it would have fit other teams budgets or rosters or that they would have given up their very best prospect.
Problem was also the lack of control on the players who were traded, in some cases, meant they had limited value despite being quite good players.
To me the braves have established a good core of prospects in the AA and below strata that should power their rebuild in the long term.
They seem to be reshuffling some of the middling acquisitions for more upside in lower ranks. Seems a reasonable path for a team that is still spending money on veterans at major league level to be respectable.
I think where they have been a little deceptive is in allowing the impression that they were going to try to contend in the first years in new park. That's not what they ever intended in my view.
Ventura's Stolen Bases
I think I trust our FO more than Tampas, but I know nothing about Tampa.
I'm not a big fan of the argument that any trade the FO makes deserves a certain deference due to it having so many good baseball men who know so much more than the rest of us (after all every trade involves competing judgments by two front offices). So I'm taking a little pleasure at this rare opportunity to turn the tables with a similar argument.
PS: See post immediately above for Exhibit A of what I'm talking about.
Last edited by nsacpi; 01-12-2017 at 08:33 PM.
I really think its difficult to say the Braves went with this approach when we just do not have any idea what the other deals on the table were. Its very possible the Braves took the highest upside offer in every single one.
Natural Immunity Croc
My preference is for quality over quantity. That's why I was never impressed by the FO (and their acolytes around here) beating their chests over building up such a "deep" farm system. So far it looks like all of that "depth" is going to end up playing on the waiver wire merry-go-round (assuming they ever make a 40-man roster).
I don't completely discount guys in the bottom half of the Top 100 list. But they are worth significantly less that the ones further up the list (on average). And it is worth pointing out that with the exception of Swanson, our very best prospects (Albies, Allard, Soroka, Acuna, Maitan, Anderson) have not been acquired by trade.
I would add that Gohara has yet to make a Top 100, much less a Top 50. Maybe he will. But he ain't there yet.
Last edited by nsacpi; 01-12-2017 at 08:39 PM.