I think the Braves are just taking any any guy with upside they can get hands on....most of them with prior issues. Seems to be their philosophy with acquiring prospects.
Braves trade Mallex and Simmons to M's for Gohara and Burrows
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I think the Braves are just taking any any guy with upside they can get hands on....most of them with prior issues. Seems to be their philosophy with acquiring prospects.
From a Facebook chat with Buster Olney
Q: Blake Harvell What's your take on the Braves trade of Mallex Smith?
A: Buster Olney
Buster Olney They're capitalizing on his value before it starts to decline. It's smart business.
It continues to seem like the national view of mallex is that he's not much more than a fringy OF starter and if that's the case, Buster is right - the Braves dealt him at the right time.
Q: Blake Harvell What's your take on the Braves trade of Mallex Smith?
A: Buster Olney
Buster Olney They're capitalizing on his value before it starts to decline. It's smart business.
It continues to seem like the national view of mallex is that he's not much more than a fringy OF starter and if that's the case, Buster is right - the Braves dealt him at the right time.
I post here because there are several very intelligent members. Nsacpi, harry, Ramadon, and as much as I hate to admit it, gov and thewpk. A few others I'm sure I'm missing at the moment. Even smoot has his moments at times. Rico does an amazing job making this a place a one stop shop to keep up with prospect performances during the season.
Plus, I have numerous 5 minute breaks at work while code compiles or tests run, so this is a good place to kill time. Sometimes, like this morning, I'm stumped at work,so I use this site as a distraction while I figure out the best way to multi-thread a simulation that has to perform about 3 trillion slot evaluations. My desktop PC is limited to 24 physical cores, but I don't really want to write a process server to dole out tasks across the network. Any suggestions?
Interesting. Somebody will have to ressurect this thread in the future. Quite a few of the faithful have insisted all along that Mallex and Ender were equals, and that the latter should've been traded.
Interesting. Somebody will have to ressurect this thread in the future. Quite a few of the faithful have insisted all along that Mallex and Ender were equals, and that the latter should've been traded.
I haven't seen a single person claim Mallex and Ender are equals. What I have seen is folks claim that the return for trading Ender would more than make up for the drop off from Ender to Mallex in CF.
Interesting. Somebody will have to ressurect this thread in the future. Quite a few of the faithful have insisted that Mallex can be a starting CF and that trading Ender ,who has more value, would be a better overall move for the team.
FIFY
It's the best in baseball until the white sox trade Q
With Ender and Mallex the Braves were like a guy that owned a Mossberg pump shotgun and a Benelli semi-auto shotgun, and no other guns. He could trade the Mossberg for a nice .22 to hunt small game at 100 yards, or trade the Benelli for a bolt action .308 with a nice Leupold scope to hunt big game at long range.
Instead, he did what the Braves did and traded the Mossberg for a stripped AR15 lower that will probably never be built up to a functioning firearm.
Instead, he did what the Braves did and traded the Mossberg for a stripped AR15 lower that will probably never be built up to a functioning firearm.
Tapate50
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Strong.
IowaBrave14
Active member
paragraph 2 resembles a language I have not, nor want to learn. Lol
IowaBrave14
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I hate the Yankees with a passion, but I think they might have currently. My opinion.
GovClintonTyree
<B>Vencer a Los Doyers</B>
Your numbers are ****. At least this time.
GovClintonTyree
<B>Vencer a Los Doyers</B>
LOL Oh, my God.
I was thinking they had a hot blonde with averagish tits and a hot brunette who was gonna get implants.
The consensus on most of the Braves moves, including this one, has been that the Braves have done very well. You can disagree, and you at least back up those disagreements with valid reasons. But you often act as though it's obvious the Braves made a dumb move, and that is generally never the case. The Olivera deal was the one instance where I think that's true.
Pervert.
striker42
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Often with young pitchers they'll throw a slurvy breaking ball that some will call a curve and others a slider. It usually morphs into one or the other. Also, sometimes you have pitches that have such crazy break that it's called a slider by some and a curve by others. Kimbrel's breaking ball was one of those.
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
Yeah, was surprised to learn, courtesy of Gameday, that Craig's slider was a knuckle-curve.
Yeah, you "put me in my place" about how Fangraphs Favorite, Heyward, was having a better season than Freeman. Then it was pretend like it never happened.