Braves RHP Anthony Swarzak

Yup. I expect parson to be optioned. And swarzak to be added. He will take venters spot on the roster I guess. And parson’s spot on the 25 man. He will get some work this week as we see if he can regain some mojo. Probably not pitching high leverage unless snit goes twit.

He is probably first man gone when something better comes along.
 
Declining FA velocity the last 3 years straight. BB rate jumped from 2-3 to 4-5. 33 years old.

Yet another example of why it's foolish to commit big money to BP arms.

At a time when real impact BP arms aren't available yet, this may be all that's available, and AA has to try something.
 
SidSlid92 said:
Anyone understand this trade? Swarzak has been awful most of his career.
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We were likely going to lose Biddle anyway. Viz is out for the year and a FA this offseason. Seattle kicked in money to even out salaries.

I don’t really see any possible downside. If he sucks, he gets cut.
 
Enscheff said:
Declining FA velocity the last 3 years straight. BB rate jumped from 2-3 to 4-5. 33 years old.

Yet another example of why it's foolish to commit big money to BP arms.

At a time when real impact BP arms aren't available yet, this may be all that's available, and AA has to try something.
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Not going to throw shade on this trade. This is two GM shooting the **** in a Vegas brothel figure the best way to dump some trash. AA probably got the blonde hooker for taking on a bit more salary in the swap.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
Not going to throw shade on this trade. This is two GM shooting the **** in a Vegas brothel figure the best way to dump some trash. AA probably got the blonde hooker for taking on a bit more salary in the swap.
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I remember Swarzak having a really nice season with the Twins in 2013, but he's been all over the place. Biddle regressed terribly (not to say Swarzak hasn't) and I think Vizcaino is done.
 
Is it not concerning to folks that Seattle had to kick in money to make this trade work?
We really will be hurt so bad by taking on a couple million more in salary that we had to get Sea to throw in money?
And people are saying we have 30 plus million to spend this winter??To me this trade as small and insignificant as it is, speaks volumes about where the Braves are financially, how they think business wise and how much they really had to spend this past winter and will going forward.
I hope the Braves sign CK after the draft but I wouldn't count on it.
 
Buzzworm said:
Is it not concerning to folks that Seattle had to kick in money to make this trade work?
We really will be hurt so bad by taking on a couple million more in salary that we had to get Sea to throw in money?
And people are saying we have 30 plus million to spend this winter??To me this trade as small and insignificant as it is, speaks volumes about where the Braves are financially, how they think business wise and how much they really had to spend this past winter and will going forward.
I hope the Braves sign CK after the draft but I wouldn't count on it.
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I don't see this as saying anything about the payroll. It was a swap of pieces each team wanted to get rid of and there was no incentive for the Braves to take on payroll to add a guy like Swarzak. Making it money neutral makes sense with both sides trading guys they no longer want just hoping a change of scenery helps someone or that someone can get healthy.
 
Buzzworm said:
Is it not concerning to folks that Seattle had to kick in money to make this trade work?
We really will be hurt so bad by taking on a couple million more in salary that we had to get Sea to throw in money?
And people are saying we have 30 plus million to spend this winter??To me this trade as small and insignificant as it is, speaks volumes about where the Braves are financially, how they think business wise and how much they really had to spend this past winter and will going forward.
I hope the Braves sign CK after the draft but I wouldn't count on it.
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This trade is like me giving you my broken hot tub in exchange for your broken motorcycle, and I kick in $50 to pay the amount your power bill increases while you have the hot tub plugged in trying to fix it.

I don't think it has any bearing on what the Braves can afford to add to the roster.
 
Buzzworm said:
Is it not concerning to folks that Seattle had to kick in money to make this trade work?
We really will be hurt so bad by taking on a couple million more in salary that we had to get Sea to throw in money?
And people are saying we have 30 plus million to spend this winter??To me this trade as small and insignificant as it is, speaks volumes about where the Braves are financially, how they think business wise and how much they really had to spend this past winter and will going forward.
I hope the Braves sign CK after the draft but I wouldn't count on it.
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you just complained that the Braves spent less money on a crappy reliever than they could have.
 
I will be the first to admit I didn't have any faith in Swarzak but outside of the game vs Washington he's been very good so far. This is the same Swarzak I watched give up runs in 7 straight games not long before this trade (and that included giving up homeruns in 6 of those 7 games). Hard to believe someone that looked that bad could do as well as he has here thus far. He gave up 5 of those 6 homers off his fastball, one was a hanging slider. His only homer allowed with us was also a fastball at around 93 mph. He seems to be throwing his slider more with us and obviously locating his fastball better thus far.

That said, Biddle has been worse with Seattle than with us. The BAA against him so far is .433 and he is still walking too many.
 
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