2025 Trade Deadline Thread
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bravesfanMatt
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Southcack77
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Yeah, what?
You’re emotional, I get it. But the true litmus test was always going to be this off-season.
striker42
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AA's excuses don't make any sense.
He wanted to be fair to the players having to play the rest of the way? No GM in his right mind puts that in front of making the organization better.
He wanted to keep a good product on the field for fans? Ozuna barely plays and Iggy hasn't contributed much this year. Losing them doesn't move the needle.
He wasn't going to give guys away? You don't have to. You open for offers and take the best one. If it's not a great return then maybe the guys you're selling aren't worth much. So no great loss.
Just man up and say "We misread the market and thought we could get more for our guys than we could. By the time we realized we weren't going to get what we were asking for it was too late to make something work."
Dude screwed up. He should own it.
He wanted to be fair to the players having to play the rest of the way? No GM in his right mind puts that in front of making the organization better.
He wanted to keep a good product on the field for fans? Ozuna barely plays and Iggy hasn't contributed much this year. Losing them doesn't move the needle.
He wasn't going to give guys away? You don't have to. You open for offers and take the best one. If it's not a great return then maybe the guys you're selling aren't worth much. So no great loss.
Just man up and say "We misread the market and thought we could get more for our guys than we could. By the time we realized we weren't going to get what we were asking for it was too late to make something work."
Dude screwed up. He should own it.
I might feel different if AA wasn't continuing to allow this buffoon to manage this team. If they weren't actively putting the health of our best players at risk. If they didn't knowingly tank all the value Ozuna and Iggy had in the weeks leading up to the deadline.
It's just malpractice at this point.
It's just malpractice at this point.
Sure, but I’m not sure last year’s deadline qualifies. In fact, I think the 2023 deadline was the real failure.
Yeah, and if that’s the case then we need to be worried about AA’s ability for evaluation.
I read his comments to mean that he was only looking for a return on his trades that would help the team next season.
I get that… but if it wasn’t available, he could have taken what was available.
The temptation to bring these guys back with new contracts might just be too hard to resist now.
I get that… but if it wasn’t available, he could have taken what was available.
The temptation to bring these guys back with new contracts might just be too hard to resist now.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Yeah I bet he’s thinking about getting one or both on the cheap for next year if he sees signs of life over the remainder of this season. But we’re throwing darts at a pool table at this point, whatever he’s doing doesn’t make sense to any of us. I’m certain he’s not stupid. That means either there are factors at play unknown to us, or he allowed emotion to override logic.
No one will ever convince me he couldn’t have gotten something useful from Iglesias.
No one will ever convince me he couldn’t have gotten something useful from Iglesias.
Mad Dog Murph
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This game shows why not a single team wanted anything to do with our bullpen arms. Straight up trash
That would be dumb. Ozuna is a 35 year old DH who has declined this year (albeit likely due to injury) and the DH duties need to be given to the catchers and Acuña. Iglesias would only make sense on a one year deal at a middle reliever’s salary.
No doubt… but he said he treated this as the beginning of the off-season. Only explanation I can think of.
CrimsonCowboy
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It definitely feels like something changed last year at the deadline. Prior to that AA was generally pretty proactive and creative (people whine about the Kelenic trade(s) in the 2024 offseason, but the Sale, Lopez and Holmes acquisitions were all great), but then he just... stopped. Despite the offense's struggles last season it felt like the team was one good deadline move for offense away from having a real shot in the postseason. I wonder what changed.
striker42
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I definitely feel like AA has lost his edge for some reason. He was always a risk taker and would try to make things happen no matter what. For the last year it's like he's been frozen. It's actually kind of bizarre.
bravesnumberone
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Idk if AA's hands have been tied. Idk if he's just lost it. Idk if maybe like we tend to overhype/overrate prospects, maybe we hyped up guys like Ozuna and Iglesias who just didn't have enough appeal to teams....but something is fucked up somewhere.
