Is it too much to ask?

[GovClintonTyree]

Keep in mind the Braves should not be looking to Wisler to provide anything more than 2 good years. As soon as he gets expensive he needs to be traded.

If Wisler turns into the next Weaver that's perfectly fine, as long as the Braves do the intelligent thing and trade him away when he has 2 years of control remaining. Which is pretty much how they need to deal with every single pitcher.

Rather than figuring out economically how to compete on an OAK/TB budget, I think we ought to be identifying our keepers and locking them into long term deals, keeping them in house through their expensive-and-productive years, more akin to St. Louis. Keep the farm system rich and producing, splice in an occasional free agent, use the farm to make shrewd deals to fill needs.

From what our front office is telling us, they're going to have revenue streams befitting a team in the seventh largest market in America. We won't ever be able to outspend copious foolish mistakes like the Yankees, but we should be able to afford some nice things and not deal every player we develop when they approach arbitration and free agency.

I'm not into rooting for a spreadsheet, or the laundry. I'd like to see some guys stick around. Pretty sure A's fans are sick to their stomachs every time they see Josh Donalson in a Jays uniform.

 

[auyushu]

I think the bigger problem is the HR/9 rate. But I know one thing - if that change continues to develop, he will improve both.

I think one leads to the other there. If a flyball pitcher isn't missing bats then that results in higher contact rates, which just gives more chances for them to fly out of the park. I don't see Wisler lowering the HR rate unless he ups the K rate a fair bit. And he'll need to lower the walk rate a bit too, as Nsacpi mentioned.

Hopefully he can continue to develop the secondary stuff and be a mid rotation guy, we could for sure use it.

 

[TheBravos]

Wisler & Folty ...hope. Blair....no hope. Jed Bradley....come show us if you can turn the corner. Guys that need to be traded IF we can get value

Blair, Ellis, Jenkins, Gant, maybe Sims.