Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
No idea who this Manuel guy is, but everyone proclaiming the Jackson trade a steal for the Braves should try to wrap their heads around what he said. The PosiBraves will obviously decide that Jackson will be the next Denard Span during their next circle jerk session, but the far most likely outcome is that he washes completely out of baseball before producing even 1 WAR.

Like I said the day the trade went down, it was an odd way for the Braves to spend pitching prospect value. Just because they probably weren't going to pitch for the Braves doesn't mean it was OK to spend that value on something so....odd.

I think including Povse in the Alex Jackson trade was a little eyebrow raising since it implies Atlanta was pretty interested in Jackson specifically.

I don't think there was much urgency in moving Povse to make the rosters work. I don't think Povse was that high a price though. He seemed destined to be a throw in in some trade some day regardless.