Matt Olson to Braves!

Part of me is a little worried last year was a fluke for Olson... I mean... who cuts their K-rate in half in a year?
 
Russ2dollas said:
Klaw's trade article:
This seems like an incredible return for the A’s for two years of Olson as he comes off what is probably a career year.
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Law is also the high-man on Pache, if I remember correctly, so that undoubtedly factors into his evaluation.
 
jpx7 said:
Law is also the high-man on Pache, if I remember correctly, so that undoubtedly factors into his evaluation.
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he is the no doubt high man on pache. But it's still just two years of control. I really think we should have only had to give up 2/3 headliners.
 
I'm not worried about Olson. He's in his prime and is a very good bet to be a 4.5 win player at least. That's on par with what Freeman did last year.

I just want to see what they do with the cash they saved.
 
thethe said:
Why after this deal would we need 2-4 pieces? Olson/Freeman are effectively a push at this point.
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Bc we needed them before.

Who is the LF? WHo is the CF? Who is on the bench? Who are the 4 and 5 starters? Do we have any impact RH RPs?
 
Russ2dollas said:
Bc we needed them before.

Who is the LF? WHo is the CF? Who is on the bench? Who are the 4 and 5 starters? Do we have any impact RH RPs?
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Duval is our center fielder.

LF is the acquisition. I'm obviously of the belief that we need to use our depth of SP options to fill those spots.

We have TYler Yates for right handed pen help no?
 
striker42 said:
I'm not worried about Olson. He's in his prime and is a very good bet to be a 4.5 win player at least. That's on par with what Freeman did last year.

I just want to see what they do with the cash they saved.
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Yeah but cutting your K-rate in half in one year is not something very common....
 
thethe said:
Why after this deal would we need 2-4 pieces? Olson/Freeman are effectively a push at this point.
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Because we have a ton of money and could use huge upgrades in the OF and SP... what the heck is the point of trading for a cheaper option if you don't use those savings to really improve your club even more? Otherwise you just got rid of most of our Top 10 prospects for the same type team.
 
thethe said:
Why after this deal would we need 2-4 pieces? Olson/Freeman are effectively a push at this point.
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I tend to agree that Olson/Freeman are effectively a push. But we're down Soler, Rosario and Pederson from last year. Smyly started 23 games for us last year. Morton is coming off a broken leg and Acuna off a torn ligament. Unless we are assuming that those two will come back healthy quickly and we won't have any injuries this year, definitely seems to me that we need at least one OF and a SP.
 
thethe said:
Duval is our center fielder.

LF is the acquisition. I'm obviously of the belief that we need to use our depth of SP options to fill those spots.

We have TYler Yates for right handed pen help no?
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Its Kirby Yates and he's coming off his second TJS and last I heard he won't be ready for a few months. Why would you count on that?
 
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