2025 Trade Deadline Thread

CyYoung31 said:
I really believe AA has started loving the smell of his own farts, and now he’s got people around him that agree. Reeks of late tenure JS.
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Always an organizational danger in any industry (and life generally). If you’re not always self-interrogating and looking to be elastic in your thinking/dealing, you’re doomed to ossify, and wither in the autumnal breeze of your own excretions.
 
CJ9 said:
I love the thought of a family sitting at home wondering if they should go to a Braves game but ultimately deciding not to because Raisel Iglesias isn’t there to possibly pitch in the ninth inning.
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I normally take my family in late August to see a few games, but not this year. I live in NC and going for 2 games normally cost 3k to 4k depending on how nice of seats we get but not worth it this year with basically everyone hurt.
 
Southcack77 said:
I'm personally not sure I agree that you trade them for whatever you can get.

It has to be something that projects to help.
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We literally found guys like Grant Holmes and Tyler Matzek off the scrap heap. You're telling me they can't identify a couple of young, intriguing BP guys sitting in AAA somewhere? I mean hell, we gave up Victor Vodnik for Piece Johnson who had a 4+ career ERA.

It's a slap in the face to all Braves fans that AA thinks we are this stupid.
 
MadduxFanII said:
No one was calling on Anthopolous to "gut the team." Trading Ozuna, Iglesias and Johnson doesn't tear the beating heart out of a roaring lion. Murphy would have been a more painful loss, but everyone understood that's only a move you make if you can extract a pound of flesh. And it's not going to change how many tickets you sell or how much foot traffic you get in the Battery -- you still have Acuna, Riley, Albies, Olson, Harris, Strider, Baldwin, etc.

Aside from the substance of things, I'm getting a little tired of Anthopolous' public commentary. "I wasn't going to gut the team." "We're not going to make moves just to make moves." "Wheresoever did you get the notion that we prioritized resetting the luxury tax last offseason? Why, there were multiple moves I was oh-so-close to making that would have shot us miles over the luxury tax." It's smarmy and reeks of strawman building.
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He thinks we're all stupid. That's why he makes those comments.
 
I am guessing that the percentage of fans that go to the games is only slightly correlated with the number of games they have won, or to presence of a certain player.
 
AA is coming across as a guy who thought he was selling premium comic books to the comic book store guy, was offered half what he thought they were worth, and decided to storm out and stick the comics back under his bed rather than taking half the value he expected…where they continued providing him 0 value. There’s no way Ozuna and Iggy didn’t have some real trade value, especially if the Braves sent some cash along. Teams may not have been tripping over each other lining up for the honor of trading with AA like he fantasized about, but there was undoubtedly value to cash out.

At the end of the day I’m not super concerned about the Braves not getting a couple FV 40 guys who will likely amount to nothing. Rather, it’s the sheer incompetence that bothers me, and reeks of a leader who thinks he’s smarter than he actually is. Terrible teams sell at the deadline, period. They do it to shift some value from a lost season into a potentially competitive season. AA failed to do that, and the “why” is completely irrelevant.
 
Carp said:
We literally found guys like Grant Holmes and Tyler Matzek off the scrap heap. You're telling me can't identify a couple of young, intriguing BP guys sitting in AAA somewhere? I mean hell, we gave up Victor Vodnik for Piece Johnson who had a 4+ career ERA.

It's a slap in the face to all Braves fans that AA thinks we are this stupid.
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He likely thought he could get better value and after the music stopped was left holding his dick in his hand.
 
WaitingFor2017 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1951062153382994370
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That behavior is within the circle of old school baseball philosophy and I saw a ton of it up here in Minnesota when Andy McPhail and Terry Ryan were GMs and Tom Kelly, Ron Gardenhire, and Paul Molitor managed. They just felt it was unfair to the fans and the remaining team to not put a representative product on the field. But that was then and this is now and the game has changed dramatically. I just can't believe no moves other than Montero were made.
 
The only other thing I can think of is that LM wasn’t willing to eat salary on players that weren’t playing for them. That doesn’t make a lick of sense when we’re only talking about two months, but corporations be corporating. That would be the only thing that could excuse AA, unless he’s telling the truth.
 
CyYoung31 said:
The only other thing I can think of is that LM wasn’t willing to eat salary on players that weren’t playing for them. That doesn’t make a lick of sense when we’re only talking about two months, but corporations be corporating. That would be the only thing that could excuse AA, unless he’s telling the truth.
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I've never been a Liberty Media fan so I may be bias but they only care about the bottom line so eating money probably isn't their cup of tea and AA can't just do what he wants with guys like that looking over his shoulder.
 
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