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There is nothing wrong with doing that, it's pretty normal actually. The difference here is that those teams are typically promoting players that have either performed well and/or are in AAA. Fried has done nothing to show he needs to be in the majors this year, blisters or not. He could blow...

Tell me how what Coppy has said in regards to how Swanson was brought up is part of a plan, or how many of the comments Hart has made recently about calling up players so they can "see what they have" fit into a plan of player development. Either they only have part of plan (player A is going to...

Given they seem to be pulling things out of a hat to make decisions these days, I don't think even the FO can predict their moves. There definitely seems to be zero set plans with developing the youngsters, and that is really worrying. "Why not?" is not what I want to here for the reasoning for...

Newk had 110 pitches already, I was annoyed he didn't have anyone up in the pen when Newk hit 104 pitches. We shouldn't be leaving young pitchers in to pitch 110+ pitches when they are laboring and struggling. That's some Dusty Baker type crap.

The difference is Donaldson could realistically sign a 3 year 30ish per Cespedes type deal due to his age, where Moose is almost a certainty to take at least a 5 year deal.

Yeah, lets make a bad situation worse by trying to trade for an even worse long term contract that will cripple us, great idea! We aren't the Yanks, Red Sox, or Dodgers, we don't have the payroll to make these sorts of mistakes and not have it affect us, that's why people are going to complain...

In this case we would have been tremendously better off trading before we knew what we had.

Yep, and that's why this over aggressive promoting the Braves are doing is so problematic. If we hold back a couple weeks at the start of next season it would obviously be a pure business move, and look bad. And we are going to be in the same position with many of our better players the way they...

He came up August 17th last year, so almost the rest of the season pretty much.

Yep, giving Carmargo a shot is fine, having Dansby sit on the bench for half the games is not. He needs to be starting in AAA if he's not playing full time. It was dumb enough to bring him up last year when we did, this is beyond idiotic. If Dansby is still up and playing half the time after the...

Wow, that's a terrible deal for the A's. Given how long he was under control, Doolittle should have been worth quite a bit. Beane has really gone downhill in trades in recent years.

My bad, apparently it's time for me to sleep, totally read Anderson and saw that as Newcomb somehow. You're right, that would be a fair deal for Gray, though I'm still not thinking that gets it done in this trade market.

They will get at least one top 50 prospect for him in this market, and neither of those two is close to that.

Yep.

Wisler is a weird comparison, but I agree he looked like a bust when the White Sox traded for him. The Sox were dumb not to get Robles back in that deal instead, and shouldn't have made the trade unless they gave him up.

What the heck does him outhitting him this year have to do with either player's hit tool? Robles has been graded as a potential 70 hit tool player, he's easily as good as Acuna. And it's not hogwash to say Robles is the better defender. Robles is a potential plus defender in CF, Acuna is a...

Two things here. One, your assertion that playing games will make it certain they won't extend is utter nonsense. Feel free to name me 4-5 players (hell, I can't think of anyone off the top of my head) that refused to resign with their original club because of that. MadBum and Posey are two that...

And even in Freddie and Kimbrel's case they didn't really give us deals that saved us money, that basically just signed fair market deals at that particular point and time. Julio, Simba, and Inciarte are they only ones who have given us deals on extensions really, and in Simba and Inciarte's...

Yeah, like we locked up Heyward, and Franceour, and Furcal. Just because we want to extend them doesn't mean they will, and it certainly doesn't mean they will give us a break on the deal.

Yeah, Julio's problems this year are mostly control related, not park related. He's not as bad as he's been this year, but he'll have to regain his control in the zone to bounce back close to what he was last year. He has no margin for error with control with his low velocity. Nice to see him...