Braves Trade Deadline Rumors

Outside of a Shields/Lee, no one we get is a huge upgrade.

Not to mention the price it will likely cost to get a SP.

I agree getting a couple bullpen arms is more important. Adding another lefty and high leverage righty would be more helpful.

Regards to Julio, he's at 126 now which is a bit high but can be cut down. And yes, skipping him for a start won't kill the team. I'm not sure how far they want him to go. We will cross that bridge when we get there.
 
thethe said:
Its going to cost too much and he is too much of an injury risk. We have the necessary starting pitching. Just improve the pen and you can take it easy on the starters.
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Odds are, we are going to have at least one more pitcher make some starts (in addition to Beachy and Wood). Who is that going to be? What if we need 10 like last year?
 
skidlee said:
doubtful

just going to cost to much. With Graham and Gilmartin hurt we don't have much to offer unless you want to trade wood
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It is funny how you guys keep proving my point about the rotation. Don't have much to offer, but we have plenty of depth!
 
Dalyn said:
It is funny how you guys keep proving my point about the rotation. Don't have much to offer, but we have plenty of depth!
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I have never said we have plenty of depth but what are you going to offer to get him?

if you want someone on the cheap go see what Josh Johnson will cost but don't be pissed when he sucks.

Peavy is swinging for the moon. I would love to have him but we have hardly anything to offer when you look at a team like the Cards and Redsox we are also going after him
 
Dalyn said:
So we don't have plenty of depth? Glad you agree.

I would like to get Peavy and Lindstrom. That would be ideal.
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I want a SP. I wanted one before the Hudson injury (not to bench Julio though)

But what are you going to offer to get them? We have NO top prospects.
 
The one pitcher that might be available I would give up some talent for is Kyle Lohse. The guy is a proven winner and has pitched well, and is under contract for two more years at 11 million a season. If the Brewers make him available I would jump all over that, plus he has playoff experience.
 
tvsportscaster said:
The one pitcher that might be available I would give up some talent for is Kyle Lohse. The guy is a proven winner and has pitched well, and is under contract for two more years at 11 million a season. If the Brewers make him available I would jump all over that, plus he has playoff experience.
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Yeah. Too bad he wasn't available during spring training.

:Alone:
 
thethe said:
You have to have faith in the organizational arms. These guys are in AAA and they are pitching well. A start or two with a big league isn't going to kill you. Competing teams in baseball give starts to much worse arms than that.

So just because Wood has been shaky in two starts we aren't going to give him any more chances? Brave fans should have learned from Minor/Tehearn.
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It isnt a matter of trust. After the Rockies series there are 15 straight games in the division. Six with Nats, six with Phillies. This stretch is no time to experiment.
 
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We had some $$ but not 11 million.

We have around 5-8 million to play with.
 
Lindstrom, 33, has a 3.35 ERA in 40 1/3 innings pitched and has yet to allow a home run this year. However, his 6.2 K/9 and 4.5 BB/9 could give some teams some pause
 
Here is another name to keep in mind in the reliever market. Apparently the Angels are now ready to put Scott Downs on the market. He's been great this year, just had a 29-inning scoreless streak end today.
 
Dunit24 said:
Rosenthal just reported jeff samardjiza is available but the price will be sky high. I said earlier this yr i think hes a guy we could use. I can see him becoming a true ace in the next few yrs. IDK if we will go after him, but i feel like we are going to hear about more and more starters becoming available.
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I'm still not convinced that Wren's going to pay the current advertised price for any of the available options, but I'd think it'd be logical to assume that if he were going to back the truck up for someone, Samardzija would be the one. Unless Lee does become available, he's by far the closest to a #1 that has been floated, including Garza. He's also under team control through 2015, meaning that it would be relatively simple to have a rotation of Samardzija, Minor, Teheran, Wood, and Beachy throughout the life of J-Up's current deal. This would also allow Wren the flexibility of using every dime of Hudson/Maholm/Mac's money to work towards extensions and/or re-signing Mac.

Theo and Jed have never been afraid of trying to maximize their potential return even if some of those players are currently injured (see the Maholm deal). They're stockpiling as many high upside arms as they possibly can, with an eye towards being "relevant" in 2015 (which would be their last year of relatively inexpensive control of Garza). It'd be a tough pill for a lot of fans to swallow, but I'd bet that they certainly would think long and hard about an offer of Graham, Sims, Bethancourt, and a lesser arm. That and the guys they got from Texas would be a HUGE haul for Garza and Samardzija, and including Russell would get them another legit prospect (Terdoslavich maybe).
 
I'd be wary to trade Sims. By the time he is ready we are going to need a cheap arm int he rotation that could be a TOR type guy.
 
thethe said:
I'd be wary to trade Sims. By the time he is ready we are going to need a cheap arm int he rotation that could be a TOR type guy.
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Not saying I'd campaign for it, but every move made this past offseason was made with an eye towards putting a roster together that would be controllable and could stay together to make legitimate runs deep into the postseason for the length of the commitment they made to B. J.. Adding an inexpensive Samardzija to the rotation for at least three of those runs would be a much better gamble than the one made on Tex - especially considering the pieces we already have in place.
 
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