Gattis Traded To Astros (pg. 13)

Perfect Cell said:
The worse we are next year the better at this point. I dont believe in retooling and Gattis isnt a real fit in the NL anyways, out of all of our pieces hes the one that makes the most sense to move.
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Well, of course. Nothing groundbreaking there. But you said you didn't care about the return. When in fact that's a major factor of making that deciscion.
 
emk418 said:
Only if we didn't trade Justin. Gattis is currently our LF.
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Hart never gave that specification/qualifier. I believe we signed Toscano to be a starter or at least have the opportunity to be a starter. I would guess that the LF/RF starters will be Toscano and Markakis... not Gattis.
 
The only two positions that a trade partner would want Gattis to play would be C and DH.

Here are the NL teams who need a primary C:
- Arizona

Here are the AL teams who need a primary DH or C:
- Baltimore
- Texas
- Tampa Bay

You could argue that Texas needs help at both DH and C, so it makes sense that they've reportedly had interest in Gattis.
 
dak said:
The only two positions that a trade partner would want Gattis to play would be C and DH.

Here are the NL teams who need a primary C:
- Arizona

Here are the AL teams who need a primary DH or C:
- Baltimore
- Texas
- Tampa Bay

You could argue that Texas needs help at both DH and C, so it makes sense that they've reportedly had interest in Gattis.
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Baltimore too
 
Evan needs to be traded, but only for one or two premium prospects, not guys that have a bench or marginal starter ceiling.

I think Texas is not only the team with perhaps the greatest need for Gattis, but also might be the team with the best prospects that we would want. I propose:

Rangers get: Evan Gattis

Braves get: Nomar Mazara and Jake Thompson

Anything short of a package similar to this and I'd wait until we got one. Evan still have 4 years of control, so we could easily wait until the July deadline in 2015 or next offseason. Do not settle for anything less.
 
Heywood said:
Yep. Why do we need to pay him all this money if we don't plan on scoring runs?

Also will make people realize how stupid this rebuild plan was.
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Closers are much more valueable at the trading deadline IMO. There could be a big time contendor that either loses their closer to injury or ineffectiveness and you can even have a situation where a team comes out of nowhere and their big hole is closer. I prefer the approach to trade him midseason to a desperate team.
 
That being said, I wouldn't be that disappointed if Kimbrel is never traded. At some point we are going to be good again and it would be nice to have another legacy Brave.
 
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