From a Facebook chat with Buster Olney
Q: Blake Harvell What's your take on the Braves trade of Mallex Smith?
A: Buster Olney
Buster Olney They're capitalizing on his value before it starts to decline. It's smart business.
It continues to seem like the national view of mallex is that he's not much more than a fringy OF starter and if that's the case, Buster is right - the Braves dealt him at the right time.
Last edited by Preacher; 01-13-2017 at 03:12 PM.
BedellBrave (01-13-2017)
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Last edited by Enscheff; 01-13-2017 at 03:27 PM.
We must have a really good farm system when a guy in the 15-20 range is traded a huge uproar happens.
With Ender and Mallex the Braves were like a guy that owned a Mossberg pump shotgun and a Benelli semi-auto shotgun, and no other guns. He could trade the Mossberg for a nice .22 to hunt small game at 100 yards, or trade the Benelli for a bolt action .308 with a nice Leupold scope to hunt big game at long range.
Instead, he did what the Braves did and traded the Mossberg for a stripped AR15 lower that will probably never be built up to a functioning firearm.
GovClintonTyree (01-13-2017)
The consensus on most of the Braves moves, including this one, has been that the Braves have done very well. You can disagree, and you at least back up those disagreements with valid reasons. But you often act as though it's obvious the Braves made a dumb move, and that is generally never the case. The Olivera deal was the one instance where I think that's true.
For anyone taking the BP report as gospel , I find no other mention of a curve. But yet they go into some detail about it.
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GovClintonTyree (01-13-2017)
Often with young pitchers they'll throw a slurvy breaking ball that some will call a curve and others a slider. It usually morphs into one or the other. Also, sometimes you have pitches that have such crazy break that it's called a slider by some and a curve by others. Kimbrel's breaking ball was one of those.