50PoundHead (11-17-2016)
Here's my take. The game has changed a lot in the 30 years the last time the Braves did a tear down/rebuild, but they had the main pieces in place (Glavine, Smoltz, Gant, Justice), a nice set of supplemental pieces (Blauser, Lemke, P. Smith, L. Smith, Mercker), and a bunch of guys in the pipeline (Jones, Klesko, Lopez, Avery, Hunter, Mitchell) before putting on the finishing touches. I just don't think we are quite there yet. Remember it took the Cubs six years of sub-.500 baseball to assemble the juggernaut they are currently.
McCann traded to Astros. . .
It's finally over
McCann to the Astros for 2 RHPs: Albert Abreu and Jorge Guzman. Abreu a Top 10, Guzman not ranked.
Wonder what the money looks like.
Yankees paying 5.5 per year, Astros basically get him for 11.5 a year, not bad.
I'm okay with not matching he is a DH by this point
Huge mistake by the Braves. Can't believe Coppy just sat on his hands.
We needed a good catcher in the short term and McCann was the perfect ticket to fill that spot.
I expect to sign Castro at some point today.
Astros also signed Josh Reddick to a 4yr deal, somewhere north of $50 million.
The equivalent to the guy the Astros gave up is Touki.
Mac has an option year for $15M that is almost certainly going to automatically vest, so they really got Mac at 3/38.
You would be happy to see the Braves give up Touki plus another lower level arm to get Mac at 3/38 without the ability to DH him?
This is not a terrible move by the Astros, but I'm glad is was them and not us at this price. I don't see the package they gave up being as valuable as Touki, but maybe I'm overvaluing him. Since he figures to get a decent number of DH at bats, I do think the Astros will be risking that 2019 option vesting unless McCann gets hurt at some point.
I only say they are equivalent due to this:
http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016?list=atl
Compared to this:
http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016?list=nyy
Both guys rank #10 in very good systems, carry an FV of 50, and here is the money quote on Abreu:
"Though his control and command need polish, he has the upside to pitch in the front half of a big league rotation."
Sounds like a dead ringer for Touki to me.
Last edited by Enscheff; 11-17-2016 at 08:25 PM.