Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
Boweden just doesn't know how current FO's operate. He would of given up half the farm for Archer and have the team be irrelevant in 5 years.

There is no price for Archer that would have rendered the Braves "irrelevant" in five years.

I'm as guilty of overrating our prospects as anyone and I wouldn't have traded Wright, Anderson, Riley, and Pache for Archer, but the Braves damn sure could have weathered that deal without insuring their irrelevancy in five years.