Braves sign Ervin Santana to 1 year 14.1M deal

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1m

How quickly did Santana deal come together for #Braves? He flew from Arizona to Florida yesterday and took his physical last night.
 
negative people that is their life, if they can't be negative why do they have..

COGPK said:
Sure are a lot of negative people here. I call them "yeah, buts." We could get Kershaw and people would be posting "yeah, but..........."

Here's what I believe. The Braves are better off with Santana than without Santana. He will give us 200+ innings. We need that this year.
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Maybe Santana will be a good mentor for Teheran. Hopefully they'll develop some healthy competition.
 
We weren't messing around. Also I think he really wanted to pitch in the NL/be a Brave.

Heyward said:
Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1m

How quickly did Santana deal come together for #Braves? He flew from Arizona to Florida yesterday and took his physical last night.
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I love that the decision was made by the FO that this team can compete now and let's make this happen.

I know that all things aren't equal as far as stats go....but this kid is taking Medlen's spot in the rotation basically. I'd be interested to see how the stats line up medlen vs Santana. If the team simply holds it's ground by making this deal, I like it.

The thing that I wonder is....how will this effect the team at the deadline. Most of the talk was that there was money left for potentially a big deal in July. I'd assume that this would have an effect on that.
 
One potentially looming consequence of this deal: The Braves have clearly gone over budget (perhaps significantly ... nobody seems to know what the team is working with anymore) ... I doubt that this leaves wiggle room to take on much salary, if any, around the trade deadline.
 
Hawk said:
One potentially looming consequence of this deal: The Braves have clearly gone over budget (perhaps significantly ... nobody seems to know what the team is working with anymore) ... I doubt that this leaves wiggle room to take on much salary, if any, around the trade deadline.
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Yeah but remember, we can get players at the trade deadline for 25-50% of their value.
 
I don't think we can answer the question anymore as to how much ownership is willing to spend. This is a new time for Brave fans. So damn exciting. I want Heyward resigned!
 
I am extremely conflicted about this signing.

It is awesome to see Wren is able to extend the budget when required. Santana undoubtedly makes the rotation better, and would have made it better even if none of the injuries had happened. If Beachy and Floyd end up being healthy towards the middle of the year the Braves are suddenly looking at a VERY strong rotation of Teheran/Minor/Santana/Beachy/Floyd, with Wood coming out of the pen.

However, it is a bit worrisome to give up the 26th pick for only 1 year of Santana. It would have been nice to have him here longer with options or a longer deal. We can probably also assume there is now zero money to add to the roster at the trade deadline. That means no fix for 2B, CF or 3B if any of those guys falter (and I'm confident one of them most certainly will).
 
Honestly what were the Braves to do? Run Hale or Garcia out there every 5th day? These deals that veteran starters are getting are crazy but that's the way of the game right now. He's got good stuff and hopefully he is just maturing as a pitcher and we get a great year out of him. Unfortunately, this move had to be made or Frank Wren wouldn't be trying to win. I think it is a shocker that we've spent the money like this so recently as I haven't seen the Braves do this in quite sometime.
 
Why should we assume that at this point? Braves could end up spending more money.

Also, its very likely that Santana will net a first round pick for the Braves next year.
 
From MLBTR:

Medlen told reporters, including MLB.com's Mark Bowman, that he has spent the past two days preparing himself for a second Tommy John surgery. [...] O'Brien relays that Medlen was "angry and in denial" after injuring his arm on Sunday; he threw two more pitches before exiting the game.
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Poor guy.
 
I wish we didn't have to do this, and could have saved the money for the trade deadline... but, it had to be done.

I just feel bad for Meds.

If Beachy can get ready for the start of the year, with Minor and Floyd not far behind... we should still be alright now.

Teheran
Santana
Garcia
Wood
Beachy

Then have Minor and Floyd working to get back. Garcia to the pen as the long man and Wood out there to be a shut down lefty, to help limit his innings and possibly have him as a starter in August/September.
 
So is Wren saying that we signed the best starting pitcher that was on the FA market this year? Or the best available option in the market now?

"Throughout the winter, we didn't feel like we were going to be in this market. But we felt Ervin was the No. 1 guy in the market. We've always felt if we were going to go out there, we would love to have him."
 
Millwood1Hitter said:
So is Wren saying that we signed the best starting pitcher that was on the FA market this year? Or the best available option in the market now?

"Throughout the winter, we didn't feel like we were going to be in this market. But we felt Ervin was the No. 1 guy in the market. We've always felt if we were going to go out there, we would love to have him."
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#1 guy since the start of hte offseason
 
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