2018 Offseason And Targets

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In other news, Keuchel/Kimbrel/Machado/Harper among others like Marwin, Moose, etc still arent signed and camps are opening.

Baseball has to fix this.
 
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Despite rumored offers/wishes of teams, word is Bryce Harper is not signing — or even considering — short-term deals.
 
Enscheff said:
I expected more from this off season than signing JD and a couple retreads to 1 year deals.

Oh well.
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I thought we'd at least make one big trade with our prospects but pretty dissapointing given the money they had and prospect capital to really improve the team.
 
Enscheff said:
I expected more from this off season than signing JD and a couple retreads to 1 year deals.

Oh well.
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So did I, but ultimately I'm fine with it, especially if we can add another ~2 wins by shoring up the edges of the roster. Its a conservative approach and maybe that isn't the best thing when the rest of the division has been ridiculously aggressive, but it does keep the long term view as the main focus, which I like.
 
Enscheff said:
I expected more from this off season than signing JD and a couple retreads to 1 year deals.

Oh well.
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Agreed. The Donaldson deal was a low risk deal at the time, however, with it being our only main move, it becomes a higher risk IMO.

If he gets hurt again, we are in big time trouble. Add to the fact that we have injury prone and declining McCann behind the plate, that is more trouble for us...If he gets hurt, we don't have anyone to replace him outside of Flowers
 
Casey Stern is leading his questions to Glavine that it is not AA's fault of the Braves failure this offseason, it is the owners...he has been on that bandwagen for a while now
 
CrazyTrain said:
Which stats particularly did he improve on? For the most part, his stats are identical, just his luck stats (BABIP, LOB%) returned to league average. His battled ball profiles changed a lot, as his LD% skyrocketed (19 to almost 24%), sharp drop in GB% (46 to 38%). His med and hard hit% also skyrocketed from 45 and 32% to 51 and 40%.

Looks to me like people just figured him out in the second half. The margin for error with guys that have Newk's style stuff is extremely low. If you're main pitch philosophy is FB/CH, you gotta be able to locate. At almost 26, I don't see that happening for him.
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K rate increased, BB rate (IIRC) dropped a hair, FIP was slightly lower.

Newk was fairly similar in the second half. As you pointed out, his luck normalized so it looked like he was worse.

I'm not saying Newk's going to be amazing this year. I just don't see him as a big candidate to regress. I expect something similar. Maybe a small improvement if he continues to refine his game.
 
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