Every arm is a ticking time-bomb. Its all about when its going to explode. I'd rather trade him 1, 2, even 3 years before the surgery and get amazing value for him than 1 year too late and get nothing for him.
I remember everyone laughing at Carp (myself included) when the rumored trade of Beachy for Lorenzo Cain. How would Cain look in CF right now for us? If they pull the trigger on that deal than BJ is never here and Heyward is still in RF and hte Braves are competing for a world series title.
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But that is what I'm getting at. In my opinion you are much better off at developing lots of pitching and trading/signing/extending hitting. You definitely want an anchor and I believe that will be Teheran but you are risking way too much by spending more than 30% of your team budget on pitching.
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And people also would have said you were crazy if you advocated trading 20-year-old Jason Heyward for some young pitcher named Chris Sale. You can always use examples either way.
The bottom line is, you won't ever sustain success if you're always looking to trade your best arms 2-3 years before they potentially get hurt, especially if they're still cheap for a while.
Grant McAuley
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Through four starts this season, @GwinnettBraves RHP Mike Foltynewicz has turned in a 2.08 ERA in 21.2 IP, with 30K and a 1.25 WHIP. #Braves
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Mmmhmm.
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Natural Immunity Croc
A big part of this whole makeover to get back to the "Braves Way" was to put us back in the position of having a couple of inexpensive arms ready to step into the rotation at almost any time. Assuming they don't extend Miller and/or Wood, you have to figure that we're close to the point that we've rebuilt that type of depth. Much like Medlen, Beachy, and Minor before them, you ride them out until they begin to get expensive and then hope to trade them for more pieces BEFORE they get hurt (but not "early" because the sky will fall if they do).
This is part of the reason I can at least imagine Hart & Company kicking the tires on one of the legitimate "Aces" this winter - you lock up at least the top two slots for the foreseeable future with Price/Teheran, then let the merry-go-round begin to circle. See where Miller is and what you can get for him following this season if Folty sticks as a starter because you'll have him and Wisler as the "next guys up". Same with Wood following 2016 - you could have Banuelos breathing down everyone's necks. Come the end of 2017 you hopefully have Jenkins and Sims ready and Fried getting close. And on and on.
No one expects ALL those guys to reach their projected ceilings (or even necessarily work out at all), but if half of them at least come close the organization SHOULDN'T need to spend significant money adding SPs before 2020 if they added an "Ace".
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?