Mazara is a bit of a speculative play for a contender, but I guess I've been high on Frazier. But Mazara has a ton of at bats now with subpar performance in the field and at the plate. Badly needs a breakout, but only 23.
If I'm AA I'm looking at the teams who are looking at Machado and Harper. They'll be looking to shed some salary and/or create some room for their new toy.
Just a thought, Camargo is going to be a big piece for this team going forward being our super utility player, but like others have mentioned, for the right deal, I wouldn't be opposed to moving him....
With Seattle going into a rebuild, if you could build a deal around Camargo for Diaz to keep some of our stud prospects, would you do it? Obviously it would not be Camargo for Diaz straight up, but he seems like a piece they would covet
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That rotation still lacks substance after Folty. Soroka really needs to come back healthy for us to be better than we were last year. Even with Kluber, I'd rather go get another vet arm than rely on Newk to be anything more than he has shown to date. He should be the one dealt for Diaz and not Gohara.
camargo will be super valuable to the squad being the super-sub type. moving him make so little sense to me unless a team truly values him as like a 4 WAR player.
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UNCBlue012 (11-27-2018)
Unless we're getting an elite player under control for awhile, no. Braves need better depth, i mean our bench in the playoffs was Rene Rivera, Zuk, Lane Adams, Flaherty and Duda. Other than Duda, that's just terrible. Dodgers OTOH had guys like Dozier, Puig, Chris Taylor, Muncy, and David Freese off the bench. A strong bench especially in the NL is huge. I say pass.
Yep and Camargo is tailor made for that Chris Taylor/Kike Hernandez type of role, minus the ability to play CF. It wouldn't surprise me to see Anthopoulos try to get another versatile super utility type that is left handed and/or hits righties well. I think he means it when he says that he wants to rotate our lineup pretty often and have a more flexible team that can mix and match according to the pitcher we're facing that day.
The Dodgers didn't have a single player have over 600 at bats last year. The Braves had 3 and Ender had 597. I think we're gonna try to spread the at bats a little more evenly this season.
jpx7 (11-27-2018)
AA said in an interview today on Fox Sports Braves on twitter that they wanna get an outfielder but dont wanna sacrifice too much defense for the bat. Kinda interesting. Still working to find the best fit. But pretty clear they want to improve the outfield. He also said this offseason they wanted to get better offensively.
Camargo sets up as the primary RHH bench bat, so I agree with needing a LHH bench bat to compliment him. I have to imagine Duvall is as good as gone now?
A LHH bench bat that plays cOF means the primary cOF should be a RHH, which is why I lean towards favoring Cutch over Brantley now.