Trades/acquisitions

Enscheff said:
I think I misjudged the Nats' return for TreaMax. They got the #21 and #43 prospects as rated by FG who are close to MLB-ready, plus some filler. I think that's roughly a fair haul.
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Yeah. Using a little outdated prospect value and $$/WAR suggests it's a pretty fair deal when adding in the deadline premium.
 
Enscheff said:
The Braves have won 3 straight division titles, and were 1 win from the WS last year. All this done with a middling payroll and barely touching the farm. Yet here we are, whiny folks with unrealistic expectations for a mid-market payroll still comparing moves made by powerhouse franchises to the Braves.

Wake up and smell reality already. The Braves have mid-market resources, and are performing very well for that level of resources. This year is an anomaly for several obvious reasons, and the club is well positioned to be right back in the thick of things next year.

While I also want the Braves to upgrade the manager position, reality (there's that word again) dictates that a dinosaur who is very popular in the clubhouse is currently steering the ship, and has gotten very good results until this year. I have no doubt an upgrade will be made when it doesn't involve firing a popular winning manager in the middle of his current contract.
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Game of luck and inches. We have a very talented core that wins despite of a lot of negative factors. Twit is a popular coach and I could see the argument that if you went with a guy like kapler it could have adverse effects. But to not have some nerd coaching our coach on some in game decisions. Or hiring a new bench coach to bring that element into the dugout is insane. And there is nothing wrong with not blindly agreeing with a guy because he has some mitigating factors on him. The Rays are a small market team that continually makes moves and are continually good.
 
I think Anthopoulos is fine. He is certainly following a different patten of talent acquisition than he did in Toronto and some of what he learned with the Dodgers may not be totally applicable with a mid-market team. He didn't inherit the best of situations given the international sanctions (although I would argue he inherited a team with a stronger long-term outlook than the team Coppolella inherited; so Coppolella gives and Coppolella taketh away). Our lack of top-tier prospect capital really impinges his ability to acquire impact talent through trades. We're back in the international market and I don't want to issue a verdict on Anthopoulos until we have more depth in the system. I'm still not totally understanding his draft strategy. but I'm willing to wait to see what the yield is.

I didn't quite understand all the moves last winter (and still don't like the Smyly signing), especially the pace of the moves, but if Acuna and d'Arnaud are healthy and Ozuna is healthy and decides not to have a domestic dispute, this team is probably right there. Injuries are part of the game and it's not like the Mets aren't banged up as well.
 
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Jon Heyman
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Mets and Cubs remain apart in Kris Bryant talks. Doesn’t mean he can’t end up there, but there’s work to do. Perhaps Baez is more likely?
 
Chico said:
If the Bucs would let go of Reynolds, what would a Reynolds/Rodriguez package cost?
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As another poster said, we just don't have the pieces to land both. Reynolds is off the table. I am surprised that Rodriguez hasn't been moved. Most observers thought he was near the top of the most-likely-to-be-traded list.
 
50PoundHead said:
I think Anthopoulos is fine. He is certainly following a different patten of talent acquisition than he did in Toronto and some of what he learned with the Dodgers may not be totally applicable with a mid-market team. He didn't inherit the best of situations given the international sanctions (although I would argue he inherited a team with a stronger long-term outlook than the team Coppolella inherited; so Coppolella gives and Coppolella taketh away). Our lack of top-tier prospect capital really impinges his ability to acquire impact talent through trades. We're back in the international market and I don't want to issue a verdict on Anthopoulos until we have more depth in the system. I'm still not totally understanding his draft strategy. but I'm willing to wait to see what the yield is.

I didn't quite understand all the moves last winter (and still don't like the Smyly signing), especially the pace of the moves, but if Acuna and d'Arnaud are healthy and Ozuna is healthy and decides not to have a domestic dispute, this team is probably right there. Injuries are part of the game and it's not like the Mets aren't banged up as well.
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The issue with not choosing a direction either way means that your team remains around a .500 team the rest of the way and you get a meh draft pick.
 
Ken Rosenthal
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Rays are talking with Cubs about both Kris Bryant and Craig Kimbrel, sources tell
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. Could trade for one of them individually or both together. No indication a deal is close.
 
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