With that in mind I wish the Braves would get their messages straight. On the one hand you've got McGuirk essentially saying it's a complete rebuild, but then on the other you've got JS and Hart saying it's not a complete rebuild.
thank you weso1!
Shhhh weso1, don't let them in on it until its already over.
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Personally, I'm always excited to see Braves baseball.
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Yep, McGuirk's talking points aren't completely at odds with what Hart has been saying, but there is definitely an opportunity to better align the message.
As for the prospect that Liberty / McGuirk have instituted a payroll reduction, I think these concerns are unfounded at the moment. The current payroll # is impossible to pin down since we don't know which players on split contracts will make the team (Wandy, Stults, KJ), we don't know how Minor's arby case will play out, and we don't know which players with incentives will hit them (almost every player under contract has performance and / or award bonuses . . . some of them significant). The range of outcomes currently looks to be between $99m and $105m, and it'll likely end up close to the middle of that range.
Cot's has our 2014 payroll at $112m. Given our interest in Hector Olivera, it seems to me that our baseball ops folks are free to spend $110m or so this year if they see fit.
Nothing says "all in" on a youth movement like an OF over 30 coming off a neck issue, bringing back Kelly Johnson, signing one of the biggest pricks in baseball to be a backup veteran catcher. All the while trading three good hitters under 30.
Enough with the bull****. You've wrecked the team so we can get back to where we were in two years, supposedly. Own it and quit trying to put some ridiculous spin on it.
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Speaking of that: here's an idea.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
With that in mind, I vote we trade Freeman and Kimbrel for four great young arms coming off TJ and sign Fred McGriff, so he can reach 500 home runs, and people will put him in the HOF. McGriff was my boy back in the day.
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