I disagree. If you can get someone on the cheap in the beginning of the free agent process that is a role player you do it.
As always to remember "showing interest" is very vague
Yeah. All the value guys got scooped up. If everyone was looking at them maybe they won’t be a value after all.
I’m hoping AA has a plan. The complete inactivity is odd and frustrating. He’s been known to be a value junky, thus he’s never been a free agent guy. He’s gotta fill holes somehow though.
We have enough pitching to fill out a competent MLB pen. We could use some experience though.
Coppy
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?
This is the reason I want Addison Reed. He's not going to be a "value signing", but he's about as solid as it gets at the back end. He doesn't walk anybody (less than 2 per 9 IP), and has loads of closing experience in the event you want him to fill that role.
Joe Smith is going to fly under the radar as well, and while it appears that they're just looking for one pen arm, you could probably come really close to being able to get he AND Jake McGee for about the same amount of money per season. If they're not in on Reed I'd love to add McGee on a 3 year deal and Smith on a 2 year deal - our pen depth would suddenly become a strength.
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?
Add Mcghee to the list of relievers gone. He's going back to Colorado.
They didn't sign for very good value at all, making them no longer value signs...as Chico pointed out. I imagine teams were looking at the same things I looked at when they targeted those guys.
However, I didn't pick them because they were value signs. I picked them because I think they will be the best BP arms available this offseason. I said, "I'll take the guy who is on the Top 10 lists for most Ks, least BBs, and has a sub-.300 xwOBA who signs for the least money".
Morrow signed for 2/18 plus a $12M option with a $3M buyout, 2/21 minimum. Morrow was my #1, but that's way too much for the Braves, as predicted.
Neshek signed for 2/16 plus a $7M option with a $700k buyout. I wanted him on a 1/7 deal with a $7M option, so I think the Braves were wise to skip him for that kind of money.
Hunter got 2/18. I completely whiffed by wanting him for $4M...dumb. MLBTR had him at 2/12 and FG had him at about the same. They were also low, but I was stupidly low.
All that's left from my list is Plan C...Joe Smith. Maybe he's the value play from my list?
Maybe the Braves go for one of the guys I pegged as BP conversion candidates? Peralta was already grabbed for exactly that reason.
Maybe the Braves do the smart thing and simply wait for someone to be left without a team and scoop them up in January?
Last edited by Enscheff; 12-13-2017 at 12:17 PM.
jpx7 (12-13-2017)
Wow. Swarzak signs ith the Mets for 2/14. It feels like a fantasy baseball drafts where there's a run on relievers way too early