2022 Trade Deadline

Shrewd and excellent general managers don't just wake up and casually make moves that screw up their chances at strengthening/retaining strengths on other parts of the team. I think he has an idea or two of what he's doing.
 
NYCBrave said:
My initial thinking is I would have liked to save that $16 million a year over the next 3 to pay towards whoever we get to fill in at SS, or even towards Swanson.
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Pretty sure we have the money for Swanson or someone else to replace his production.
 
Enscheff said:
C is average. Taking on a long and expensive contract for a BP arm that is quite possibly Will Smith v2.0 is a very average move that a very average GM would make.

As I said, I expect better moves out of AA, and he only made 1 good move this deadline. Last deadline he perfectly toed the contender/noncontender line, and made solid cheap additions. This year he didn't do enough to improve a clear NL favorite, and replaced one bad BP contract with another one that will potentially be just as bad.
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Disagree with this.

He replaced an ineffective lefty with an effective righty in the pen which is a major upgrade.

He got a pretty good upgrade on paper for the right hand side of left field.

He added decent rotation depth.

All without giving up a significant prospect or taking on a deal that would hamstring a top 10 payroll.

I think these were pretty typical Anthopolous moves. He considers bullpen arms worth the spend which makes sense. They can have an outsized effect on postseason baseball.

He did better this deadline than last IMO, but can't really expect anything like the luck we enjoyed last year.


With all that said the letter grade is in the eye of the beholder. Sort of depends on what you are judging.
 
Last years deadline was master class considering the position the team was in.

This year was barely above average, mostly due to flipping Smith into a useful SP which was a terrific move.

We will see how happy folks are with the Grossman/Rosario platoon 2 months from now, and the Iglesias contract 2 years from now.

I predicted the Smith deal would be bad, and I predicted the Braves would be shopping for a SP and OF help at this deadline. I also predicted aa Riley extension would be roughly $200M. Now I guess we see how these predictions play out.
 
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Will Smith popped a little later in his career but Iglesias has been a stud from the beginning. He is still throwing hard and striking out batters at a high rate. I don’t think 15-18 per year for a reliever is a lot for a team that knows it’ll be in the playoffs consistently for the next few years.

This idea that money is wasted in the pen is an archaic way of looking at baseball. In the playoffs you need at least five bullpen arms that you are 100% confident in.
 
I dont think the Iglesias deal is bad if we're gonna be a top 5 payroll team going forward, but BP arms are viotole, so there's always risk with that. I do wish he added a better bat than Grossman though. Flipping Smith for Odo was a shrewd AA move.
 
Watching MLB deadline show yesterday PM and just happened to switch over to ESPN during their discussion of Braves. If anyone else was watching ESPN please comment but what I heard (the big Latino commentator) was that Dansby would be looking for the big money (no surprise) and Braves FO was expecting some problems with Acuna's down the road contract when they signed him to the favorable deal. Now with the Olson and Riley deals dollar wise the problems may have arrived.
 
Enscheff said:
Last years deadline was master class considering the position the team was in.

This year was barely above average, mostly due to flipping Smith into a useful SP which was a terrific move.

We will see how happy folks are with the Grossman/Rosario platoon 2 months from now, and the Iglesias contract 2 years from now.

I predicted the Smith deal would be bad, and I predicted the Braves would be shopping for a SP and OF help at this deadline. I also predicted aa Riley extension would be roughly $200M. Now I guess we see how these predictions play out.
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Doesn't really matter if the deal is bad later. Just matters how it plays now.

Picking up a bunch of players with a little hope to play better for absolutely nothing and then having them all happen to perform extremely well at the same time is really just a fortunate outcome rather than a master class.

He spent a couple of bucks on a lottery ticket and hit the powerball.

The good work there was really that he didn't go all in. The provess was sound.

Here flipping Smith's salary slot for a hopefully better version is fine. AA thinks paying for relievers is worth it and I tend to agree that high leverage relief can be the difference in playoff wins and losses. If he wants to gamble with a portion of his payroll on spends for relievers I'm ok with it.

As you say, the money I regret was bringing back Rosario on a two year deal. Though, a healthy version makes that look not nearly as bad. I wouldn't have done that though.

Only happened because Freddie didn't come back imo.
 
bravesfanforlife88 said:
I do expect us to go hard after a veteran starting pitcher. Also, will need to address SS, bullpen, and OF.
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BP is mostly set next year, right now we're set to have Yates, Stephens, McHugh, Igelsias, Minter, Matzek, and Lee. Maybe add one more depth piece but for the most part, we're set there. SP depends what we do with Charlie. SP market looks pretty good though. DeGrom can opt out, Manaea, Eovaldi, Tyler Anderson, Andrew Heaney, Chris Bassit, Rodon, Tajuan Walker. SS has the big 4 with Xander, Correa, Dansby and Turner. OF market is straight MEH other than Judge and Nimmo.
 
PawPawMaxwell said:
Watching MLB deadline show yesterday PM and just happened to switch over to ESPN during their discussion of Braves. If anyone else was watching ESPN please comment but what I heard (the big Latino commentator) was that Dansby would be looking for the big money (no surprise) and Braves FO was expecting some problems with Acuna's down the road contract when they signed him to the favorable deal. Now with the Olson and Riley deals dollar wise the problems may have arrived.
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Everyone knows Dansby wants big money, or probably will after the year he's having. Regarding the Acuna comment, should be common sense we'd have to re-do his contract at some point. We have him until 2028 with the team options, so there's time on our side to get something done.
 
No one is disputing that Acuna's deal is under value.. but he signed it so young and still pretty unproven (higher risk) and he is still in line for one more HUGE payday.. these other guys getting contracts around him are getting their last big payday.. If he is mad and doesn't play up to his ability, then that hurts him more than it hurts the Braves. The team has already shown they can win a playoff run without him.
 
Yeah, I hope Acuna focuses on getting back to being the player he was pre-injury more than sulking about his contract. That being said, I see no evidence he's sulking. He seems just as frustrated as the rest of us that he's not just killing it.
 
Speculation on Acuna's mood is just that...speculation.

Nobody knows how he feels and he could be thrilled that he is getting paid a bunch and playing for a winning team. I doubt these guys are having Dick measuring contests in the locker room with their bank statements out.
 
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