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He also won 14 straight division titles, which is something no one else in baseball has done. Not Joe Torre. Not Tony LaRussa. He also won with different players and different styles of teams. He almost always maximized what he had, whether it was the teams that rotated Rafael Belliard and...

JS worked Billy Boy over on the Tim Hudson deal.

Viz hasn't even gotten to the point where he is arbitration eligible yet. There is still quite a bit of control left, particularly if you want to buy out his arbitration years.

This has nothing to do with scouting directors. It is directly related to PLAYER DEVELOPMENT, which was headed by Kurt Kemp and then Bruce Manno, who Frank brought with him from Baltimore.

Yeah. It's just a coincidence that the "changes" happened around the same time Frank ran off a strong director of player development and gave the title to his hand picked guy Bruce Manno.

http://www.talkingchop.com/2012/12/12/3758668/braves-tinker-with-julio-teherans-delivery-then-tinker-again I don't make up stuff to push an agenda. It's interesting that they also changed something with Tommy Hanson around that time, and that's when Hanson's production took a drastic decline.

It's interesting. Something happened to player development after 2011. Teheran went off the rails in AAA in 2012. There was talk that Frank and Jeff Wren had him make some mechanical changes to see if they could get more swing and miss, and they almost screwed Teheran up big time. I know...

There used to be discussions about who was the better prospect, Julio Teheran, Arodys Vizcaino, or Randall Delgado. EDIT: In fact, Julio was #4 on BA's top 50 list in 2011. Arodys was #16, and Randall was #44.

The fact that Boston sent Frank Wren to Atlanta makes me think they are preparing to make a serious offer for Teheran. If I'm Atlanta though, I'm not listening to anything that doesn't include Moncada. Seriously, if they don't put Moncada in the deal, then I want Benintendi, Espinosa, Devers...

Well, we should just fire everyone in the front office and scouting staff over this so we can hire some Keynesian economics nerd to run things.

Which, we should get. Philly got Velasquez and Appel, along with Oberholzer, Eshelman, and another minor leaguer for Giles and another minor leaguer.

Jason Stark also said that no one would meet what the Braves wanted for Shelby Miller, and 12 hours later, he was traded for Swanson, Blair, and Inciarte.

Bud Norris may fetch the Braves a Low B to C level prospect now.

So, let us say that Teheran is kept. Coppy wants to get Will Myers bad. What does San Diego want for him?

I have absolutely no issue with going into 2017 with Teheran and Folty headlining the rotation.

Here's the question. Which scenario is better for 2017 and beyond? Pitching staff headlined by Julio and Folty with a line up of Albies, Swanson, Freeman, Ruiz, Inciarte, Smith, Flowers, and Markakis; or a pitching staff headlined by Folty and Wisler with a line up that has Albies, Swanson...

Everyone seems to have this feeling that Julio is going to regress at some point. The kid just turned 25 four months ago. He's had some ups and downs, but all young pitchers go through that. What you are seeing is the maturation of a young pitcher, and you are seeing a young pitcher who had...

Some are looking for any reason they can find to criticize anything and everything this front office does. If this were Billy Beane, you wouldn't hear a damn peep about it.

I'm all for Snitker getting the job. Unlike some, I'd rather have a Bobby Cox protege than a coach that is going to coach from a spreadsheet. I think Snitker has handled the pitching staff as good as it can be handled. He knows when to take the young guys out, and I like that he is aggressive...

I'm telling you, this Isranel Wilson kid. Look out. Even if he strikes out 25% of the time, his power is precocious. He's going to be on some top 100 lists soon. Wait and see. He just turned 18, and he had a .257 ISO as a 17 year old in his first go at pro ball here.