jpx7 (12-30-2023)
jpx7 (12-30-2023)
His Statcast page still looks really good even entering his 35 year old season.
jpx7 (12-30-2023)
This is a tremendous deal, especially now that I’ve been able to see the financials. There are obviously legitimate concerns there, but Sale’s upside is… well, it’s Chris Sale. And this is a tremendous rotation when healthy:
Fried
Strider
Sale
Morton
Elder
My only surprise is that AA acquired an injury-prone player when he has clearly valued durability this offseason.
Leave it to the social media Braves fans who severely overrate Vaughn Grissom while comparing Sale to 2020 Cole Hamels.
jpx7 (12-30-2023)
Never going to happen, but if AA somehow swung a deal involving Elder for Cease, this team would be unstoppable.
Fried
Strider
Cease
Sale
Morton
Get off my lawn!
Strider Fried Morton Sale Elder with our offense and bullpen?
Shheeesh
AA has his fallback option for 1 year deal if Morton calls if quits. Just has Sale on the 1 year option.
Forever Fredi
So, is this really only a $500 K hit in 2024?
jpx7 (12-30-2023)
I think it’s hard for them to look at his ‘23 performance and not remember ‘20-22, and they’re still butt hurt that he got hurt and missed three years. And truthfully we’re taking a gamble assessing his last third of a year and thinking that is what we’re getting. OTOH, it’s not costing us $27.5M to find out.
We got 10m interest free for 11 years?
Natural Immunity Croc
jpx7 (12-30-2023)
I very highly doubt it would happen, but it sure would be nice to pick up one more durable prove 3... like Stroman... I think they want to keep Elder in the rotation, though.
bravesfanforlife88 (12-30-2023), Tapate50 (12-30-2023), zbhargrove (12-30-2023)
Chris Sale always injured!