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Are you guys just underestimating how bad the team has been thus far or what? The team is on pace to go 39-123. That's farther from last year's team (67-95) than last year's team was from making the playoffs. That is what Hart meant by his comment, and I don't think it's an indictment of...

I don't think you have to be a Fredi supporter to think that was a pretty bad mistake. I certainly wanted him gone, but I expected it to be done in a professional way.

"Not sure what the scouts saw with Glavine. Wish we got a higher ceiling arm." -atl717, September 1987

Why do non-statheads always assume that when someone brings up stats to make point that's literally the only thing they think should ever inform a baseball decision? I use stats in discussion because, as a baseball fan who is not affiliated with the Braves organization, it's the only thing I...

This is interesting timing. I thought not playing Castro/Beckham last night was fairly stupid and contributed pretty directly to the loss, but I wouldn't expect the FO to make this kind of decision based on something like that. Still, seems strange to fire him in the middle of a series on a...

I feel like a lot of people here underestimate the value of Teheran's contract. We're in a world where it takes $22 million/year to sign Jordan Zimmerman, and Teheran is signed through 2020 with an AAV of ~$8 million in the remaining years. Assuming 2015 was just an aberration (and it looks...

We could also include a Markakis/Sandoval swap in the deal. The Red Sox would have to include a lot of money in that case, but the money gives the teams an avenue to negotiate value without having to add more players.

To be fair, I can remember several posters here who insisted the media/Atlanta fanbase response to the trade was overblown and offered the same justification as to why the trade wasn't bad from Arizona's point of view.

Really? In general I think my outlook on the future of the team is rosier than that of most posters in this thread, but I feel like the one thing everyone can agree on is that the Markakis signing has never made any sense. He'd be a fine addition to a winning team with its core already in...

The Braves are currently on pace to go 35-127. Nobody expected this team to be competitive, but "not competitive" is still a long way off from "easily the worst team of all time."

Regardless of how you feel about Kemp as a player, San Diego's future outlook is arguably even worse than ours. I doubt they are willing to trade away their draft pick just for salary relief.

Wait why did Fredi take out Teheran? He'd thrown 75 pitches and wasn't even getting hit?

Yeah, to put a Sonny Gray trade in context, I saw his name mentioned frequently when writers were discussing the kind of SP that Arizona should have been able to get for what they gave us in the Miller deal. I think a lot of baseball people felt Inciarte + Blair would've been fair value for...

That is a very disingenuous comparison of the two. Their minor league stats: Soler: .303/.381/.542, 17.1% strikeout rate, 10.8% walk rate Alvarez: .278/.372/516, 24.6% strikeout rate, 12.9% walk rate You can't just handwave a 7.5% difference in strikeout rate as "Soler struck out a bit less."...

Really, he's a 26 year old A- player who got paid A- money. In a world where a Cano gets 10/240 at age 32, Greinke gets 6/206 at 32, Stanton gets 12/325 at 25, etc. I don't know why people keep thinking this is some kind of massive overpay. This is what good, young players cost now. This...

Yeah, baseball salaries have grown so quickly over the past 15 years that it's pretty misleading to compare pay rates on contracts that are even a couple of years apart. But really, anyone who thinks the Cubs overpaid for Heyward because the value of his defense is overstated - what do you...

I don't know, I thought it made perfect sense if their plan really was to be competitive in 2017; it was just a very NBA-esque sort of move. Granted, we're not having to work with a hard salary cap like in the NBA, but if you have budget constraints and you have no plans to compete for a year...

My Scout profile says December 2004, which seems about right. If I recall correctly I first started poking around the internet for baseball news around the time of the Hudson trade, which led me to the Scout board.

I feel like a large part of his downfall has just been a major shift in how catchers are valued over the last few years. His best feature has always been his arm, but over the last several years teams have started to realize pitch calling and framing are far more important, and he's not...

Neither Upton nor Gordon is coming off a season anywhere near as good as Cespedes' 2015. On top of that Gordon is nearly 2 years older than Cespedes, and Upton is awful defensively. Neither of them can play CF either. Once Heyward signs, Cespedes will be the biggest impact OF available in a...