Braves Trade Heyward, Walden to Cardinals for Miller and Tyrell Jenkins
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jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
So greed; much want.
blueagleace1
Playing the Waiting Game
Unfortunately we won't be able to assess this trade for a couple of years.
Cards were in a better position to win regardless of Heyward. Even before Heyward they had a better line-up and better staff by far.
yeezus
It's OVER 5,000!
They are going to love him.
Especially Wainwright when Jason saves a double, triple, or homer.
FreemanFan
Danville Rookie
I heard Mark Langston may come out of retirement.
Runnin
Well-known member
hours??? That would be impressive in the telegraph era.
"By far" is a pretty magnanimous stretch.
I think Gammo still resides in that epoch.
He is easily the most entertaining baseball writer that I follow on Twitter, mainly because he accidentally composes practically every tweet he posts as a message to himself.
And, of course, those notorious pocket tweets: http://deadspin.com/5969910/the-15-best-peter-gammons-tweets-of-2012
Dalyn
Fredi Gonzalez Supporter
The ability to stand in the batter's box fits the "hit enough to earn some at-bats" for this team right now.
ViperVisor
High School Draftee
A confluence of circumstances led to this being a trade maybe worth doing.
Uggla finds the bottom of the barrel. Then punches though it.
BJ is terrible anywhere but 8th
Medlen and Beachy go down. Spend to replace on Ervin.
The questions about the roster had a more glass half full feel to them last year. You could more easily justify spending more to see if you could contend.
This year you would need to drink the Kool-Aid to believe the glass is looking sweet this year.
After the multiple debacles last season you need major progress in multiple spots just to get back to a meh level. Hard to justify investing in 2015. And then you have the opportunity cost of standing pat for a year in 2015 if you only hope for the best.
It sucks but it's where were at in a division with WASH and a League with a team spending $250,000,000
Uggla finds the bottom of the barrel. Then punches though it.
BJ is terrible anywhere but 8th
Medlen and Beachy go down. Spend to replace on Ervin.
The questions about the roster had a more glass half full feel to them last year. You could more easily justify spending more to see if you could contend.
This year you would need to drink the Kool-Aid to believe the glass is looking sweet this year.
After the multiple debacles last season you need major progress in multiple spots just to get back to a meh level. Hard to justify investing in 2015. And then you have the opportunity cost of standing pat for a year in 2015 if you only hope for the best.
It sucks but it's where were at in a division with WASH and a League with a team spending $250,000,000
blueagleace1
Playing the Waiting Game
I am now dumber from watching that...
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
I'd be more pissed about the time wasted. I didn't watch it cause I could tell only BS would be coming from it.
blueagleace1
Playing the Waiting Game
I guess the name "The BS Report" has two interpretations. Also doesn't surprise me that Bill Shanks initials also stand for bull sh**
"He's averaged 16.8 homeruns a season". Maybe Bill was on to something. Heyward didn't love baseball enough to hit whole homeruns, only homeruns in 10ths.
Can someone tell Bill Simmons that someone is copying the name of his podcast? lol
Can someone tell Bill Simmons that someone is copying the name of his podcast? lol
I still think guaranteeing $16M a year for 7 years or so for Heyward is risky but I would be on board with that. Too bad he never would have signed for close to that. I'm sure Hart would have locked him up already if he would have accepted $16M