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    Quote Originally Posted by Southcack77 View Post
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    2. It's another ground on which to question the addition of Melancon. Adding that third reliever without options reduced the flexibility of the roster. Was it necessary? Who knows. They could have tried Gausman in the role Melancon is filling. Probably a lower confidence of success in that though.

    Not saying it was wrong move, just saying it's a tactical drawback.
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    Good decision by the FO. He wasn’t going to be of use the rest of the season. He looked completely lost on the mound. If they couldn’t put him in AAA then there was no reason to hold onto him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Here's my conspiracy theory:

    The Melancon trade originally called for Gausman to go the Giants. Farhan Zaidi has this idea. Why don't you waive him and we'll see what happens. If another team claims him great. If not we will. The detail I'm wondering about: are the Reds ahead of the Giants in claiming order. I know they have a worse record, but I believe claiming order has to do with record over the past 162 games.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
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    beats that Seth Rich nonsense
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    we can only speculate at this point
    Given Anthopoulos’ comments, and some parsimonious reasoning, I’m going to assume roster flexibility really is the predominating factor (after, obviously, Gausman’s results staying terrible and not converging to his league-average inputs).
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Here's my conspiracy theory:

    The Melancon trade originally called for Gausman to go the Giants. Farhan Zaidi has this idea. Why don't you waive him and we'll see what happens. If another team claims him great. If not we will. The detail I'm wondering about: are the Reds ahead of the Giants in claiming order. I know they have a worse record, but I believe claiming order has to do with record over the past 162 games.
    Amendment to conspiracy theory: AA has an idea too. Let us give him one more start to see how he looks. Then we waive him if he looks bad. win-win-win as far as all three of the Braves, Giants and Reds are concerned.

    I suspect some of the details outlined above would be frowned upon by the commissioner's office. Which makes it an even better conspiracy between two guys who know each other. Better not be any paper or electronic trail.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    I thought one of Gausman or Teheran would be moved or not brought back this off-season. Guess its Gausman. So we save about 3M.

    He might have helped us in the pen in September/October.
    I don't like the move, we'd been better off trying Gausman as closer with that splitter and skipping the Greene trade altogether. His velo out of the pen would be better and he could do well closing with his splitter. Oh well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
    I think this was pretty risky. Philadelphia certainly could've used him.
    Could we not simply pull him back if claimed, or has that rule changed too?

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    Waivers -> Claim -> Gone

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carp View Post
    Could we not simply pull him back if claimed, or has that rule changed too?
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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
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    No he could have been pulled back. The Braves decided instead to let him go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carp View Post
    Could we not simply pull him back if claimed, or has that rule changed too?
    Depends on the type of waiver they used - unconditional release, irrevocable outright or revocable. I'd guess the middle option so they could send him to AAA to continue working on things. Reds claimed hm tho so off he went

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    Dear Folty,

    You have less than a month to prove you belong in the rotation for a playoff contender before you are replaced by Ian Anderson.

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    HulaVol is very, very pleased with this.
    I’d rather see just about anyone starting a game on this team rather than Kevin at this point.
    We need to be getting as far away from mediocrity as is possible.
    This moves in that direction.

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    Honestly it is amazing how good this team is considering how horrible the pitching has been compared to last year.
    Folty from all star to optioned down
    Gausman from 3/4 to waivers
    None of the young non-soroka guys have stuck
    Newk to the pen
    Carle, winkler, and minter have been bad

    Soroka Julio Jackson and Tomlin are our pitching bright spots?

    Anderson May come up soon and start a playoff game

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    You forgot Fried

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