Jon Heyman
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One player that interested Marlins in Realmuto talks with Atlanta was Johan Camargo. Though he’s lost 3B to Josh Donaldson, Braves wanted to keep Camargo.
Jon Heyman
@JonHeyman
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One player that interested Marlins in Realmuto talks with Atlanta was Johan Camargo. Though he’s lost 3B to Josh Donaldson, Braves wanted to keep Camargo.
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Great move to sign Kimbrel and you wonder if after the atlantic article that liberty might want to spend sole money to gove the braves faithful a cookie.
Bullpen would look real nice with craig in the 9th.
It also just pushes guys like oday/minter/biddle/sobotka/winker into the 5th-7th innings. Those are some damn fine arms for those innings.
jpx7 (02-15-2019)
I bet AA and McGurik are feeling the pressure of the fans. Their answers in the article seemed like they were tired of hearing about not doing anything.
Kimbrel would be a good pick up for this team. Would give us a fan favorite back and a closer to the back end of the game. As has been mentioned, everyone would move down a spot which would be good.
Someone else also mentioned an opener as an option for Teheran’s starts. I’d love to see Freid/Gohara go 2-3 innings, then bring in Teheran for as long as he can go.
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Tried earlier to point this out-- would this work??
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On a #Braves team with Freeman, Donaldson & dynamic young talent, veteran McCann and a coach from Phillies (!) could be determining factors in whether ATL repeats as division champs.
Correct. A Kimbrel signing would give them the flexibility to play around with who opens for Teheran. I like having a lefty with a good fastball open for Teheran who doesn’t have a good fastball. And theoretically, you could save the pen on those days by having two guys that could basically pitch the whole game if they are on
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For me the only disappointment this offseason is in RF. I think we could have gotten a nice upgrade there. We needed to upgrade the bench and AA did that by signing Donaldson which moved Camargo to the super utility role he's best suited for. We have so many good young pitchers that I don't think a move was necessary there, although I bet we add a bullpen arm at some point.
Maybe we could have added an extra win here and there by using Donaldson's money elsewhere, but I'd personally rather lose that win and enjoy watching Donaldson hit as a Brave for hopefully most of the season.
thank you weso1!
gamecock4braves (02-16-2019), jpx7 (02-15-2019)
I'd love to have Kimbrel back.
If we could get Kimbrel for 3/45 I’d do it. It makes the game a lot shorter and makes a strong point even stronger. Minter could benefit from Kimbrel like Kimbrel did Wagner.
Look at it this way ...we have it to spend this year.
Next year the loss of Viz and O’Day frees up 15 mil (we also are done with Julio....another 12 million).
So....not only can we afford it...it would help stabilize the bullpen next year with most likely two key departures.
I’m warning up to it. It would have considerable risk, but would warm my heart to see Bmac, Venters and Kimbrel all back the same year.
I’m not going to say with complete confidence Kimbrel will wind up signing with Atlanta, but with as long as this has taken for him to sign, it’s not going to be a surprise anymore. Especially with the report a couple weeks ago that said the Braves were “lying in the weeds” in regards to him. We’ll see how it turns out, but I’m in the belief if Boston wanted to resign him, they would have by now.n
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