AA's Failure

[zitothebrave]

Our pen has pitched 62.2 innings. It has a 5.17 ERA, a 5.42 FIP, and a -0.5 WAR.

The worst part? There aren't any reinforcements on the horizon. O'Day isn't anywhere close and there's a fair chance he's never going to be healthy this year. It's still too early to send a lot of our young starters to the pen and there's a good chance there will be an adjustment period of we do.

And AA is pretty much dead set on not getting Kimbrel.

We really have very few options. The pen will be an albatross around our neck until teams start being willing to trade in June. Even then it's unlikely AA actually gets any impact piece for the pen as he's not interested in the FA impact arm out there now!

BRinging in Kimbrel doesn't just magically solve all the Bullpen issues.

FWIW I'm pro-bringing Kimbrel on. But not at the cost of the 2nd round pick and draft money allocation. Perhaps at this point Boston would consider a sign and trade.We send them someone we don't need, they send us Kimbrel. And I'm sure AA is considering these types of things but he cannot talk about them as it's effectively a form of collusion if they have the framework for such a deal worked out before Kimbrel re-signs with boston.

I want Kimbrel back, I'm sure AA does too, but this isn't a simple cost of money for Kimbrel, there's a huge futures loss for the Braves as they lose a very important draft pick.