David O'Brien
@DOBrienAJC
I'd be surprised if #Braves don't pull off a trade for a good/very good young starting pitcher in the next several weeks.
Okay.
David O'Brien
@DOBrienAJC
I'd be surprised if #Braves don't pull off a trade for a good/very good young starting pitcher in the next several weeks.
Okay.
CJ9 (11-12-2014)
Ummm...yeah...I'd be more surprised if Dave O'Brien has any inside knowledge at all about what direction the Braves are going in and pursuing, and I'd be shocked if he knows anything relevant.Originally Posted by Hawk
CJ9 (11-12-2014)
I think O'Brien puts more effort to constructing his playlists than he does covering the Braves. I hardly ever read him being outside the Atlanta media reach, but he doesn't seem to provide much of substance.
jpx7 (11-12-2014)
A little OT, but I think the AJC really shot itself in the foot when the decision was made to put a majority of their Braves coverage behind a paywall. I'm a big fan of print journalism (subscribed to two locals and two nationals), but I'm not willing to pay $0.99 a day to read one (outdated) beat report. It's a shame, really, because Access Atlanta used to be a great little discussion zone for Braves info, but is essentially dead now.
Hmmm... Id tentatively assume that means moving ML ready pieces instead of bonafide prospects because we don't have a lot to offer in that dept?
Ivermectin Man
David O'Brien@DOBrienAJC · 7 mins7 minutes ago
Lot of interest; power is scarce commodity RT
In response to Gattis' name being one of the hottest.
Ivermectin Man
I love Gattis and love to keep him although he doesn't have a true position in the NL, but wouldn't it be great if we could get an absolute haul for the guy this offeason? I mean it's not like it is a loaded FA class so I will keep my fingers crossed.
I would love to keep Gattis long term but it might be in our best interest long term to trade him. A lot of difference writers have mentioned how hot a commodity Gattis is especially be under control for 4 years. We may get a big return.
DOB talking about trading a reliever but says Kimbrel isn't being traded.
I'm fine with rebuilding for 2017, but if that's the route we go, what sense does it make to keep Kimbrel? He would be a great piece to trade if that's what Hart decides to do.
Rosenthal says SD's top three SPs are "available" and that we'd probably be "in"...
"https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/532584215112851457"
can't imagine we match up unless they're interested in Gattis.
Would love to have Tyson Ross to go with Teheran and Wood though.
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?
That essentially has to mean either Gattis, Jason Heyward or Justin Upton is gone in the deal. We really don't have much else to package for that type of commodity, unless it's packaging the last remaining good pieces of our minors (Sims/Peraza/Bethancourt)
Rosenthal also says V-Mart and Tigers are close on a four year deal.
That should put Gattis square in Seattle's sights.
Hello Taijuan Walker!!!
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?
I'd still see if the Tigers (in win now mode) would be intrigued and interested in a Justin Upton, Chris Johnson, Jordan Walden deal centered around Castellanos and JD Martinez and see if something could materialize. From their perspective it would fill a lot of their needs: it gives them another right handed power hitter to protect Cabrera and V-Mart and Hunter hasn't been resigned, Johnson gives them an option to replace Castellanos and would be a good fit towards their bottom of their lineup, and Walden gives them a quality late inning reliever that could even close if Nathan truely indeed is done.
2015 might be a LONG year.
It might be, but despite the optimisiom going into 2014, I have to say that this was the most disinterested team I have ever watched and I became disinterested early in the season. I trust in Hart, and if the framework is good moving foward, then I'm willing to sacrafice a down year or two going into the new stadium because what we currently have is GARBAGE.
Victor Martinez contract = 4 years, $70MM. Egads.
LINK:
Joel Sherman: Braves moving Evan Gattis to left — here comes the domino effect
Braves general manager John Hart said the club intends to take Evan Gattis out from behind the plate and play him full time in left field as a way to assure him more at-bats.
That decision would have a domino effect. If he plays left, that means that Justin Upton cannot. So the Braves could do the following: Play Jason Heyward in center, Upton in right and Gattis in left. That would mean B.J. Upton does not play.
Or they could trade an outfielder or two or …
Agreed, and very much so. If the Braves are literally "rebuilding for 2017"—trading players like Upton and Heyward (and/or not even engaging them in extension discussions this off-season)—then they'd be damn foolish not to trade Kimbrel while they're at it.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
I got lots of questions, but no answers so far. Just what exactly is John and John's vision for the team?
FYP.
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