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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduxFanII View Post
    If you consider Melvin an utter non-entity (and he surely is), Quentin a one-year guy to soak up some ABs and even up the cash and Maybin a buy-low candidate, we basically traded Kimbrel for Wisler, Paroubeck and the 41st. That's not a sizzling return, but throw in the rest of Upton's contract and I think you have a pretty solid deal.

    I would probably have preferred getting another handful of prospects instead of Quentin and Maybin, but I would wager those two were non-negotiables on San Diego's end.
    If not my exact thoughts, pretty darn close. I didn't realize that Maybin is making the kind of money he's making: $7 MM in 2015, $8 MM in 2016, and $9 MM in 2017.

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    #Braves save $19.35M swap Upton for Maybin/Quentin. More vital owe nothing after ’16 heading to new stadium in ‘17

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    Cant really complain about it. Seems like decent deal for both sides.

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    They took all of BJ's money? That's fantastic!

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    I hope Freddie's comfortable doing a lot of PR, because he and Simmons are pretty much it in terms of marketing.

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    Melvin/BJ Upton will be owed $46.35M to be #Padres fourth outfielder for next three seasons.

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    And now reality slowly sets in:

    Jayson Stark
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    When I asked this spring about the possibility #Braves could trade Kimbrel this year I was told they had Grilli & Johnson as backups in case

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    This echos how I feel about the Padres end of this.

    @matthewpouliot: Kimbrel is awesome. But the Padres just took on a horrible contract and gave their top SP prospect for something they didn't really need.

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    Woah!!! Outta nowhere!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heyward View Post
    There's a TON of good SP's on the market next winter.

    Cueto as well as others.
    FA SP

    Brett Anderson
    Bronson Arroyo *
    Clay Buchholz *
    Mark Buehrle
    A.J. Burnett
    Trevor Cahill *
    Chris Capuano
    Jhoulys Chacin
    Wei-Yin Chen
    Bartolo Colon
    Johnny Cueto
    Ross Detwiler
    R.A. Dickey *
    Marco Estrada
    Doug Fister
    Gavin Floyd
    Yovani Gallardo
    Jaime Garcia
    Zack Greinke (opt-out)
    Jeremy Guthrie *
    J.A. Happ
    Dan Haren
    Tim Hudson
    Hisashi Iwakuma
    Scott Kazmir
    Ian Kennedy
    John Lackey
    Mat Latos
    Mike Leake
    Colby Lewis
    Tim Lincecum
    Kyle Lohse
    Justin Masterson
    Brandon Morrow
    Bud Norris
    Mike Pelfrey
    Rick Porcello
    David Price
    Jeff Samardzija
    Alfredo Simon
    Jerome Williams
    Jordan Zimmerman

    Asterisks are options.

    Of that group, only Price and Zimmerman are great SP. Good SP is fine but Johnny ****ing Cueto isn't a difference maker. Sure he wouldn't be a bad add at all. But he's not a 1. He's not a guy I throw money at.
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    I'm going to go ahead and slap a Braves jersey on David Price.

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    The #Padres just took on an extra $66.8 million in salary commitments with their #Braves trade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gilesfan View Post
    Cant really complain about it. Seems like decent deal for both sides.
    I'm not even kidding I think you'd be jizzing your pants if the Nats made this deal from the Braves perspective.

    this is a great great trade. I think those who criticized everything this off-season have to love this one. some were calling for dealing kimbrel and to get this return for a close who isn't even particularly cheap anymore is 100% as close to selling at highest value as you can get.

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    Lol. It's obvious this front office does not even want to begin to attempt to win anytime soon.

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    This.

    @Joelsherman1: #Braves also get out of 3-$34M with Kimbrel. They were going to have an elite/expensive closer for few yrs with bad team. Didn’t make sense

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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    FA SP

    Brett Anderson
    Bronson Arroyo *
    Clay Buchholz *
    Mark Buehrle
    A.J. Burnett
    Trevor Cahill *
    Chris Capuano
    Jhoulys Chacin
    Wei-Yin Chen
    Bartolo Colon
    Johnny Cueto
    Ross Detwiler
    R.A. Dickey *
    Marco Estrada
    Doug Fister
    Gavin Floyd
    Yovani Gallardo
    Jaime Garcia
    Zack Greinke (opt-out)
    Jeremy Guthrie *
    J.A. Happ
    Dan Haren
    Tim Hudson
    Hisashi Iwakuma
    Scott Kazmir
    Ian Kennedy
    John Lackey
    Mat Latos
    Mike Leake
    Colby Lewis
    Tim Lincecum
    Kyle Lohse
    Justin Masterson
    Brandon Morrow
    Bud Norris
    Mike Pelfrey
    Rick Porcello
    David Price
    Jeff Samardzija
    Alfredo Simon
    Jerome Williams
    Jordan Zimmerman

    Asterisks are options.

    Of that group, only Price and Zimmerman are great SP. Good SP is fine but Johnny ****ing Cueto isn't a difference maker. Sure he wouldn't be a bad add at all. But he's not a 1. He's not a guy I throw money at.
    Cueto is a beast if healthy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
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    Melvin/BJ Upton will be owed $46.35M to be #Padres fourth outfielder for next three seasons.
    Chris Cotillo is an optimist if he thinks Melvin is going to be the 4th OF. Pinch-runner deluxe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    I'm going to go ahead and slap a Braves jersey on David Price.
    Guess it depends on if the Yankees wnat ot come knocking. I don't think they will but IIRC they were salivating over him.
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    To not even get a serviceable ML player for Craig Kimbrel is laughable. It's amazing how clueless people can have jobs in this front office.

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    I wish nothing but the best for Kimbrel, but can't believe someone took on Melvin's contract.

    I wonder if Wisler makes an impact this season.

    What's with the draft pick trading...I didn't think they did that in baseball.

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