Lucroy

zbhargrove

zbhargrove

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First, I'll say that originally I was one person who was very against acquiring Lucroy. I thought he was a big injury risk and he really only had one solid year and it could have been a fluke. That being said, he's come around to be fully healthy this year and is having a huge year. On top of that he's throwing out runners at a good clip and one of the best pitch framers in the majors. I know it would take a lot to get him, but if we could get him in a deal that wouldn't tear down the farm, I'm starting to warm to it.

Also, he's much more athletic than the average catcher... therefore it doesn't scare me as much that he's 30 if he can stay healthy. Realistically, what would it take to get him? I'd start with Newcomb.
 
I'm all for it in the offseason, depending on cost. But if we're trading valuable prospects for a bat, I'd rather trade for a non-catcher. JMO.
 
Carp said:
I'm all for it in the offseason, depending on cost. But if we're trading valuable prospects for a bat, I'd rather trade for a non-catcher. JMO.
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I just don't see any catcher that gets me excited on the market. I'd be intrigued about Ramos, but have zero confidence he can stay healthy. I'd rather trade for a catcher and then sign someone like Desmond/Cespedes.
 
Honestly I would over pay for a Castro type if I could buy a reasonable team option or two.

We have money and nobody great to spend it on. Pay him 20 million if you can get three 10 million options on the back end.

I want us to keep our flexibility. So give out some big signing bonuses if we can get some cheap back end contracts or even better some team options.
 
Lucroy best asset is his handling of young pitchers. Even if he is just average offensively(the bar is pretty low at his position) he would still be very valuable. That's the reason I think we will aquire him.
 
gilesfan said:
This team is way too far from competing to start making moves for people in their 30s.
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If you don't think we could be competitive by trading for Lucroy and then signing Cespedes for RF and Desmond for 3B, you're absolutely nuts. I know that all won't happen, but we do have the money and then some and it would be a competitive team.
 
cajunrevenge said:
Lucroy best asset is his handling of young pitchers. Even if he is just average offensively(the bar is pretty low at his position) he would still be very valuable. That's the reason I think we will aquire him.
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It may be his best asset, but he's also been the best offensive catcher in the majors this year... even better than Posey and just a year older. He's batting .300 and sitting at an .852 OPS.
 
Forever Fredi said:
No kidding. I thought he was just a 1 year scrap heap deal like AJ, Frenchy, Beckham, Johnsons, etc.
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Oh okay, I was wondering why a few on here had mentioned extending him lately. I saw someone else say that the other day too. Flowers is such a great pitch framer that I was glad that we signed him for two years plus a team option. I am also not surprised that he's hitting pretty well. Further, I still think the Braves should try to pry Brett Nicholas away from Texas to pair with Flowers next year. Nicholas could start a lot right now too with Flowers out. Nicholas is good at throwing out runners, had best catchers ERA on Texas his time up this year by far and put up an OPS over .800 too. Which begs the question, why was he sent back to AAA? The main reason is Texas was getting a lot from all four of their catchers and he had options while Wilson, etc. didn't.
 
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