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No.
I also recognize that the MLB club had about 7 young and cheap stud assets.
You gonna deny this?
The Cubs system is dry now too.
It's what happens when you graduate a ton of players and are tasked with winning
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No.
I also recognize that the MLB club had about 7 young and cheap stud assets.
You gonna deny this?
The Cubs system is dry now too.
It's what happens when you graduate a ton of players and are tasked with winning
msstate7
Well-known member
What in the world would we buy? We stacked as is
Jog my memory:
Freeman
Heyward
Teheran
Medlen
Beachy
Minor
Kimbrel
Prado (Main piece for Upton)
Drury (Piece for Upton)
Which scouting director brought in those guys?
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Acuna and Albies
Camargo, who you seem rather fond of...but maybe you will change your mind since he came in under Wren.
CrimsonCowboy
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Yeah. As a fan, all I really want is for my team to be playing meaningful games in September. Anything else is gravy.
NYCBrave
Well-known member
Happy to be winning but kind of feels like smoke and mirrors right now. How long can we get winning contributions from Tucker, Flaherty's, Bourjos the other night, Anibal today. Hoping that when the pixie dust runs out from those players, we have the fire power from the minors coming to fill the gaps.
Do you deny wren built a winning team over 5 years with a meh payroll? Yet that means he was a disaster?
Nah - Love Camargo.
But again - The GM in the modern structure of a MLB organization has little to do with anything outside of major league personnel changes.
Its easy to build that when you are gifted an absurd amount of young talent.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Some of it is smoke and mirrors (Tucker and Flaherty in particular). But we also have one of our best players (Inciarte) getting off to a poor start. Our main catcher is out. Ditto our third baseman. We have some young players maybe taking a big step forward (Albies, Swanson, Folty, Newcomb). We have some potentially very strong contributors in AAA (Acuna, Soroka and Gohara).
So when you weigh it all, it is not hard to see this as a promising start to the season.
Definitely easy to win at the big league level
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
You keep saying it, but that doesn't make it so. The GM (certainly in the structure the Braves had in place when Wren was GM) picks pretty much all the key people involved in amateur talent acquisition and provides them with supervision and guidance. Right now AA is doing the same thing. He will get credit/blame for how the major league team does AND how the farm system evolves.
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NYCBrave
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Totally get it. I'm just not at the point where I can see us being buyers and this being a playoff team. The main concern being the volatility of the starting rotation. For now, I'll just enjoy the ride.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Umm, they ban the Braves from drafting players once those players got promoted or no?
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Sick win, I didn’t see this coming at all
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
no but a better record affects draft position
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Im not sure i'd call it pixie dust.
But you have Flowers replacing Perez, Acuna replacing Bourjos and having Tucker off the bench, Camargo replacing Flaherty, and Soroka, Gohara coming up to the bigs. Rotation is still my biggest worry.
But you have Flowers replacing Perez, Acuna replacing Bourjos and having Tucker off the bench, Camargo replacing Flaherty, and Soroka, Gohara coming up to the bigs. Rotation is still my biggest worry.
Effects where we pick. Also braves had a huge run of bad luck to promising pitchers. **** happens but calling wren a disaster is a joke. Coppy was the disaster.