Official Offseason Thread

Heyward said:
Apparently they dont wanna go over the tax.
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I haven’t paid much attention to them. Do they have a 3rd baseman yet. They are filling in some fringe pitching pieces with bounce back candidates. But do they have 4 good starters. I am not looking a any of the East depth charts. I just like how the Braves are adding impact players on short deals while the upper minor depth finishes developing. Our financial outlook moving forward is quite exciting.


Did you guys see the fan graph article on Swanson. Someone needs to link that. Man if Swanson has a 3-4 win season, that would be incredible
 
bravesfanMatt said:
I haven’t paid much attention to them. Do they have a 3rd baseman yet. They are filling in some fringe pitching pieces with bounce back candidates. But do they have 4 good starters. I am not looking a any of the East depth charts. I just like how the Braves are adding impact players on short deals while the upper minor depth finishes developing. Our financial outlook moving forward is quite exciting.


Did you guys see the fan graph article on Swanson. Someone needs to link that. Man if Swanson has a 3-4 win season, that would be incredible
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I think they're probably as of now gonna go with JT at C, Hoskins at 1B, Segura at 2B, Didi at SS, Kingery at 3B, Cutch at LF, Hasely at CF, Harper at RF.

Swanson usually starts off slow, gets hurt, and it hurts his production all year. He is due a healthy 150+ game season.
 
Southcack77 said:
I'm not sure there is a single player in the 2018 draft still with the team that projects to play every day or make a MLB rotation.

It's nice that some of the guys in the 2019 draft started off well, but we're a long way from seeing what they are. It looks like it will be a better draft (as well it should be considering the bonus pool) than 2018 though.

the 2020 draft less two picks, plus one pick figures to be somewhere in between, but probably closer to 2018 in buying power.
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Justin Dean, Victor Vidnik, CJ Alexander, and Trey Harris are all rising prospects with some promise. Vodnik is currently our 14th rated prospect according to fangraphs.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
I haven’t paid much attention to them. Do they have a 3rd baseman yet. They are filling in some fringe pitching pieces with bounce back candidates. But do they have 4 good starters. I am not looking a any of the East depth charts. I just like how the Braves are adding impact players on short deals while the upper minor depth finishes developing. Our financial outlook moving forward is quite exciting.


Did you guys see the fan graph article on Swanson. Someone needs to link that. Man if Swanson has a 3-4 win season, that would be incredible
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who are their 4 good starters? i see two: Nola and Wheeler. Arrieta stinks, as does Pivetta, and Eflin is OK at best.
 
Super said:
who are their 4 good starters? i see two: Nola and Wheeler. Arrieta stinks, as does Pivetta, and Eflin is OK at best.
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I'm a little surprised Philly didnt add another SP, thought they needed 2 SP's this winter. Maybe not a guy for multi years, but even a Gio/Julio who could eat innings would help. They do have Spencer Howard possibly coming up midseason, but they dont have quality depth there at all.
 
Heyward said:
I'm a little surprised Philly didnt add another SP, thought they needed 2 SP's this winter. Maybe not a guy for multi years, but even a Gio/Julio who could eat innings would help. They do have Spencer Howard possibly coming up midseason, but they dont have quality depth there at all.
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They're one SP injury away from having their season derail just like it did when Cutch went down last season.
 
Heyward said:
I'm a little surprised Philly didnt add another SP, thought they needed 2 SP's this winter. Maybe not a guy for multi years, but even a Gio/Julio who could eat innings would help. They do have Spencer Howard possibly coming up midseason, but they dont have quality depth there at all.
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their team building remains poor. yes, they 100% should have added *at least* one more SP. realistically they needed even more than that. i would say they needed 2 impact SPs (aka, not the Julio level) but that's tough to do in one offseason.
i am once again not worried about the Phillies this year. they are looking at another 4th place finish IMO.
 
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Southcack77 said:
It's certainly an extenuating factor, but it doesn't really make the draft any more or less successful to take it into consideration.

there are very few particularly interesting players in that draft. Most project as bench bats or bullpen pieces. Which has its place too, I guess.
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Drafts on average produce one impact player and the first pick is that player quite often.
 
nsacpi said:
Drafts on average produce one impact player and the first pick is that player quite often.
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2000 - Adam Wainright
2000 - Scott Thorman
2001 - Josh Burrus
2001 - McCay McBride
2002 - Jeff Francouer (Mac was 2nd round)
2005 - Joey Devine
2006 - Cody Johnson
2007 - Heywood
2009 - Mike Minor
2010 - Matt Lipka
2011 - Gilmartin
2012 - Lucas Sims
2013 - Hursh
2015 - Soroka
2015 - Allard
2016 - Ian Anderson

Now I Know you said first pick, not just first round. But this is all I could find in 3 minutes.
 
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