NYCBrave
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So are the Diamonbacks rebuilding or trying one of those fake accelerated rebuilds that usually turns out horrible?
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So are the Diamonbacks rebuilding or trying one of those fake accelerated rebuilds that usually turns out horrible?
Hudson2
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Losing Pollock and Goldy will kill their offense. They might as well trade Peralta.
UNCBlue012
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Wow. RIP.
Former LA Angels infielder Luis Valbuena was killed in a car accident with former Pirates 2B Jose Castillo.
Former LA Angels infielder Luis Valbuena was killed in a car accident with former Pirates 2B Jose Castillo.
50PoundHead
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Good point.
striker42
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The only teams that can do accelerated rebuilds are teams like the Red Sox, Yankees, or Cubs who have twice as much money as God.
damn, that's ass.
or the Braves who had godlike drafting ability of Coppy
striker42
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Our rebuild was hardly accelerated. It wasn't the decade long slog some teams deal with but also wasn't the two year turnaround big budgets allow.
nsacpi
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Golden Wrens
finally some good drafting and finally some pitching, thank god
three years is pretty fast
TheRunningAgent
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I tend to think that AA will make a couple of deals that are not on anybody’s radar. Something out of the blue. The guys that are being talked about have multiple teams engaged and that causes the price to go up. He’s smarter than that. So, any guesses?
striker42
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It's fast but still fits the traditional rebuild mold. Mass selloff, wait for youngsters to mature, become competitive when they do. Ours matured quick making it a shorter rebuild.
The accelerated rebuilds, at least to me, is a team with a goal of becoming competitive after one or two years down. It requires you to force the issue at some point. Teams with money can sign FAs and do it. Teams without tend to make dumb trades.
Southcack77
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It was. Probably can thank holding on to Freddie Freeman rather than trading him more than any other move for the relatively short time frame. Perhaps that's what the Mariners will get out of Ryan Haniger.
Every team just isn't going to burn it all down and commit to being awful for five years. That seems to be what everyone thinks is the obvious plan for anyone that isn't winning 95 games, but it's not realistic at a lot of places.
Southcack77
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It prods me to think: maybe we should be super worried that the only prospects left behind by Wren were all internationals and now we almost literally don't have an international department any more.
nsacpi
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Plus the Oliveira trade helped a lot by ultimately resulting in the acquisition of Charlie Culberson.
nsacpi
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Well some of them were draftees who were traded by the successor regime. Wood. Simmons. Gattis.
Southcack77
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Well you certainly wish they'd have targeted somebody better than Oliveira.
The Kemp trade on the other hand worked out really well. It did bring back Culberson eventually and ended up "saving" the Braves two or three years of dead money. I forget how many exactly.
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