Its not bad but as others have said, the risk for injury is pretty high.
Beltran/Ellsbury, even Mac have had some injury problems in the past.
They do need a closer or a high leverage arm like a Benoit/Balfour.
Do have some younger bullpen arms though, but a bullpen is easy to put together.
Rotation is a bigger concern though especially if CC is in decline mode.
Kuroda is a stud though, about as consistent as there is in the game.
The Atlanta Braves signed Nick Markakis for 4/45 - Never forget 12/3/2014
"Klay Thompson > James Harden" - Heyward
"Chris Bosh is the MVP of the Miami Heat" - Heyward
"Hibbert is better than Dwight Howard"- Heyward
"Steven Adams will be a top 10 center in two years - thethe
Boston has better starting pitching and a much better bullpen. They resigned Napoli and added Pyrzenski. They also might end up trading for Kemp.
There is something to be said for chemistry and they have it. Games aren't won on paper, they are won on the field.
Sure they have won a lot of games but nothing else to show for it. I see overpaid players in decline on the Angels. If Hamilton and Pujols hit like they did a couple of years ago they would of won the division. But they aren't those players anymore. So no I don't see that team as being very talented.
The Yankees are either going to be in first place in September or have almost the entire lineup on the DL.
At least signing all these big contracts including BMac will provide all the more reason to root for the Yankees to lose and miss the playoffs...
Braves versus Yankees WAR projections courtesy of Steamer (with a few assumptions of my own to fill in some vacancies in the Yankees' squad):
C Gattis 4.1 McCann 4.0
1B Freeman 3.6 Teixeira 2.0
2B Uggla 1.3 Infante 2.2
SS Simmons 3.8 Jeter 1.5
3B Johnson 2.1 Uribe 2.8
RF Heyward 5.1 Beltran 1.8
CF BJ Upton 1.1 Ellsbury 3.8
LF Justin Upton 3.1 Gardner 1.8
P Sabathia 3.6 Medlen 2.2
P Kuroda 3.5 Minor 1.8
P Nova 3.2 Wood 1.7
P Garza 2.3 Teheran 1.4
P Phelps 2.2 Beachy 0.2
P Robertson 0.9 Kimbrel 1.4
Some interesting projections that I have a number of disagreements with. But the Yankees do end up about 3 games better than us if they also add Garza, Infante and Uribe.
Last edited by nsacpi; 12-07-2013 at 04:28 PM.
bravesnumberone (12-07-2013), Heyward (12-07-2013)
MLB trade rumors says Nate McLouth will sign with the Nats.
Just curious, what do you guys think Garza will want/get in his new contract??
Jealousy, anger over inflated (almost unrealistic) salaries, frustration that the Braves cannot match the money being thrown around, frustration that these overblown salaries will mean that the Braves won't be able to hold on to their own homegrown talent, jealousy that other teams have overcome these problems and still won World Series, frustration that the Braves are never matched up in rumors with hardly any free agent anymore, etc.
Never understood why folks wouldn't hate on a system that is imbalanced and the teams that use and abuse it to get better, no matter the means. Understand, I've watched baseball for 37 years and am almost to the point of hating it and giving it up. MLB needs some repair.