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Beyond that, he doesn't have anywhere close to having the arm to play 3rd these days.

Those are some mighty strong splits home/away, weird that he has so much better of a k rate at home versus away. Probably SSS there I'm sure on the Ks.

Yep, whether he becomes a TOR that can go 7-8 innings regularly or a mid rotation guy that goes 6 innings will likely come down to him developing that third pitch. Hopefully he can work effectively on it this offseason.

Having to deal with a tight strike zone is part of the game, and he actually missed on that one pitch looking at the k zone, even though it's a pitch I think he should have gotten. He walked 4 guys, that's wildness whether you like it or not. He still pitched a heck of a game, just a couple bad...

Very few my butt, the Sale and Madbum deals are the exception, not the rule. You may get an extra year or two, but for every Sale there is a Heyward, Furcal, or Francoeur (worked out for us of course) that isn't interested in signing team friendly extensions. Wasting a year of team control under...

By the time Beer would possibly ready to come to the majors Freddie will be going into the last year of his contract with us anyway, so he'd make a ton of sense regardless. He could be a LF with defensive issues for a year if he's ready that fast and then slide to first.

I love how people act like we are the Dodgers and can sign people for whatever we want with no concerns. If he's that good as you say he's going to be worth 30+ mil a year, and no, we won't be able to sign Soroka for however long we can keep him. The Braves are a mid to low payroll team, we can...

Seriously, when has Boras ever not had his client sign for the highest offer, ever? Bringing up Furcal early sure worked out for us back when Boras was his agent and we wanted to extend him right? :Bowman: Outside of certain players such as Huddy who really like the area and sign for cheap...

I wouldn't either, but he's going to get a longer deal than that given the year he is having right now. If we could get him for 4 years he'd be a perfect fit, but I don't see that happening given this is his chance to get a long term deal during his peak.

I wouldn't either really, unless we could get him on a high dollar 3 year deal. Assuming Maitan is the real deal he should be ready to start at 3B at the beginning of 2021, so I'd rather go for a shorter term player. I'm just saying going after Donaldson on a shorter deal is immensely preferable...

If we are spending the type of money to pay for Moose or Longoria we'd be better off just waiting and signing Donaldson after 2018. We aren't going to be a playoff team next year anyway, so we might as well wait until 2019 to fix it when we will likely have Folty, Newk, Allard, and Soroka in the...

You happen to have a link to a place that discusses this 50? Not doubting your info per say, just haven't seen that anywhere before.

I think most of them figured BPA to mean the guy signing for slot value as well, but if the only reason Wright dropped was because he said he'd only sign for 7 mil, and we agreed to do it, then that's a trade off I'd happily make myself. Quality over quantity if preferable to me. As you said...

It has nothing to do with it being a hill to die on really, slot value for our pick is 5.7 mil. He's already dropped to 5th in this draft because he wouldn't cut a deal, and he's not going to get more money as a senior, because he will have zero leverage at all then. There is zero point for us...

This makes no sense at all to me. Why would we pay 1.3 mil over slot to sign him? 7 mil is top 2 money, Wright would have to be a complete idiot to go back into the draft next year and hope the exact same thing didn't happen again (and it would, no teams have signed the #1 pick to full slot...

You do realize we've signed cheap guys for rounds 4-10 already right? It would change nothing about our strategy to this point at all, we'd just have more money to spend on it. Regardless, you were trying to claim we couldn't sign him, we easily could if we had pick 2 and wanted to.

Not a given he would sign for top 5 money if we wanted to offer it? Sure thing man.

Yep, an extra 2 mil from being the #2 pick would have allowed us to pick Beck with our 3rd pick, pay him 3.5 mil, and still have over 1 mil left for giving extra money to guys signing in the 11-40 rounds. We got two of the guys I wanted with our first two picks, so I'm stoked, but brushing off...

The reason is so you actually get the slot values for those rounds in case the person doesn't sign. That allows you to take chances on multiple tough sign players after round 10 and be able to give the money to whoever will take it. Honestly the way the draft is set up now, I'd pretty much be...

Just crunching the numbers really quick, if we punted rounds 4-10 (signed 6 guys for 25 k, 1 for 10k) we'd have just over 1.6 mil extra for our pool. With our 3rd pick being worth just over 700k, we'd be able to give him 2.3 mil total. So it would be fairly iffy probably, particularly if Waters...