Fried to the injured list, potentially out for the year

So we went from the rotation is pretty stable to needed another SP again. AA has his work cut out for him.
 
AJSS start at Gwinnett is worth keeping up with for sure now. Elder and Anderson imploding last night isn't encouraging.

How do the braves add what's needed with so little room to the next threshold of luxury tax?
 
msstate7 said:
AJSS start at Gwinnett is worth keeping up with for sure now. Elder and Anderson imploding last night isn't encouraging.

How do the braves add what's needed with so little room to the next threshold of luxury tax?
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Sale/Lopez/Morton is still a better scenario than the Braves had last year at the deadline, and folks argued endlessly that AA didn’t need to get a SP because somehow an injured Wright and Allstar Elder were good enough to start playoff games.

For now, I still think those 3 guys plus an emerging Schwelly means the Braves don’t have to be desperate for a SP. There simply isn’t enough powder available in terms of cash or prospects to add much more than a LHH OF rental and maybe a nice #5 to gobble innings better than the collection of AAAA arms everyone around here seems to think are more than that.

The exception is if AA decides to blow past the cap and add $20M in salary from a team selling at the deadline. If they go that route there isn’t much we can rule out.
 
This is a reasonable point of view, but no team with a top end payroll is ever going to trade away an impact SP when the window of contention is open.
 
Fried is quoted saying it's "nothing serious". I figured this was AA taking advantage of an opportunity to save some bullets
 
Enscheff said:
Sale/Lopez/Morton is still a better scenario than the Braves had last year at the deadline, and folks argued endlessly that AA didn’t need to get a SP because somehow an injured Wright and Allstar Elder were good enough to start playoff games.

For now, I still think those 3 guys plus an emerging Schwelly means the Braves don’t have to be desperate for a SP. There simply isn’t enough powder available in terms of cash or prospects to add much more than a LHH OF rental and maybe a nice #5 to gobble innings better than the collection of AAAA arms everyone around here seems to think are more than that.

The exception is if AA decides to blow past the cap and add $20M in salary from a team selling at the deadline. If they go that route there isn’t much we can rule out.
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Speaking of Schwelly, have you made an updated post about him? Interested to hear your thoughts. I feel like he's progressed very well.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
Speaking of Schwelly, have you made an updated post about him? Interested to hear your thoughts. I feel like he's progressed very well.
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looking at his pitches, it seems he has good pitches that move down, but not horizontal... then has a cutter that does have average horizontal movement but gets murdered.. but his control and command is still not great and it needs to be refined.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
looking at his pitches, it seems he has good pitches that move down, but not horizontal... then has a cutter that does have average horizontal movement but gets murdered.. but his control and command is still not great and it needs to be refined.
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It is quite the conundrum with a pitcher that K's a lot of people, doesn't walk hardly any, but to be described as not great command and control.

I think its just learning where to miss and just because he misses as a ball, it doesn't mean it was a bad pitch.
 
Tapate50 said:
It is quite the conundrum with a pitcher that K's a lot of people, doesn't walk hardly any, but to be described as not great command and control.

I think its just learning where to miss and just because he misses as a ball, it doesn't mean it was a bad pitch.
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I probably should have said pitch execution and sequence. Command and control is a horrible choice of words. I think he needs to find what works well and what pitches work together well..
 
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