DOB: Braves offseason about to get a lot busier. - Gamel released.

Hudsons agent says he wants to play 2-3 more years.

I bet he looks for a multi-year deal. If so, move on.

Roto reporting we will be interested in bringing back EOF, but expects a lot of interest. At best he would be ready around the ASB...
 
Dodgers didn't pick up Mark Ellis' option, making him a free agent. Doesn't he make sense as a one year 2b? Assuming we're serious about moving Uggla, of course.
 
I feel like there is too much low-risk, high-reward pitching floating around out there this offseason to bother with Hudson at all. I know our teenybopper staff is in dire need of a 'veteran presence' but we shouldn't offer Huddy more than a one year deal worth between $7-9MM. Team option for 2015 with a small buyout.
 
Hawk said:
I feel like there is too much low-risk, high-reward pitching floating around out there this offseason to bother with Hudson at all. I know our teenybopper staff is in dire need of a 'veteran presence' but we shouldn't offer Huddy more than a one year deal worth between $7-9MM. Team option for 2015 with a small buyout.
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I agree. And a mutual buyout could do that. Make him feel comfortable.
 
Tapate50 said:
Johan Santanna anyone?
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Gotta figure Josh Johnson, Phil Hughes, or Colby Lewis would be higher on Wren's list, but would imagine they'll kick the tires on all of them given Huddy's preference for a 2-3 year commitment. If that rumor's true, I don't see any way he's brought back, especially when it's considered a "depth signing" - the organization has shown much less desire to sign proven guys to longer deals that could block young talent more and more recently. Why give someone like those guys a 2 or 3 deal (even if it's perceived to be at a below market AAV) with Beachy, Wood, Graham, and others as rotation candidates prior to the end of this season?
 
clvclv said:
Gotta figure Josh Johnson, Phil Hughes, or Colby Lewis would be higher on Wren's list, but would imagine they'll kick the tires on all of them given Huddy's preference for a 2-3 year commitment.
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I would add Braves-killer Chris Capuano to that list.
 
Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 6m
If the #Braves want to keep shrewd pitching coach Roger McDowell,they better step up in pay since others are making 3 or 4 times more money.
 
CrimsonCowboy said:
Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 6m
If the #Braves want to keep shrewd pitching coach Roger McDowell,they better step up in pay since others are making 3 or 4 times more money.
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Does anyone recall how Mazone left his cushy job with Atlanta (read HOF pitching staff and HOF manager) to go to Baltimore with his friend and just how long he lasted there with a mediocre staff. IIRC he was being paid something along the lines of 100K per and jumped for 500K. Dont blame his for that and Im sure he is not in the soup line but is he working anywhere now?
 
PawPawMaxwell said:
Does anyone recall how Mazone left his cushy job with Atlanta (read HOF pitching staff and HOF manager) to go to Baltimore with his friend and just how long he lasted there with a mediocre staff. IIRC he was being paid something along the lines of 100K per and jumped for 500K. Dont blame his for that and Im sure he is not in the soup line but is he working anywhere now?
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Doing radio now I believe
 
PawPawMaxwell said:
Does anyone recall how Mazone left his cushy job with Atlanta (read HOF pitching staff and HOF manager) to go to Baltimore with his friend and just how long he lasted there with a mediocre staff. IIRC he was being paid something along the lines of 100K per and jumped for 500K. Dont blame his for that and Im sure he is not in the soup line but is he working anywhere now?
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Color-commentator for Fox and hosting his morning show in Atlanta.

Don't think I'd ever say that Leo was a product of the talent he worked with...

"In his book The Baseball Economist, J.C. Bradbury titles a chapter, "How Good is Leo Mazzone?" Using statistical analysis, he analyzes whether Mazzone had a significant impact upon the pitchers that he coached. The sample is all pitchers who have pitched at least one year under Mazzone and one year under a different pitching coach. Bradbury found that Mazzone lowered the ERA of pitchers by an average of 0.64 points, and that after leaving Mazzone, pitchers' ERA increased by an average of 0.78 points. Bradbury believes that such an impact is deserving of Hall of Fame consideration."

(From Leo's Wikipedia page.)
 
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