Back to your cave pretending to manage people please. With ideas like this I'm glad decisions about people's careers aren't really in your hands.
Official 2022 Offseason Moves Thread
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Back to your cave pretending to manage people please. With ideas like this I'm glad decisions about people's careers aren't really in your hands.
sturg33
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lol you're so adorable
Teams are not allowed to negotiate with free-agents once the lockout begins at midnight tonight.
The likelihood is that physicals and tests can't be completed and final contract wording pinned down before then at this point, so chances are every free-agent that wanted to sign before the lockout has already signed. Everyone else waited too long. That's why most deals had to be completed by yesterday.
What's adorable is a project manager creating charts about the work of others thinking they are somehow in charge of those people.
sturg33
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And you simply prove why your ideas are consistently ridiculous. Read about other teams and their situations once in a while.
Oakland has said clearly that they're cutting salary - replacing Olson's with Dansby's accomplishes absolutely nothing. They're not going to contend for anything in 2022 other than a high draft pick. To begin with, they don't NEED a SS - they're stuck with Andrus for one more year (the same period they'd have Dansby if they were stupid enough to take him), they already owe him $7.25 million and no one will take him off their hands. In your scenario, they'd pay $18.35 million in 2022 to have one of those SSs on the bench since Tony Kemp is their 2B and leadoff hitter - and they still won't have a SS in 2023.
They already have Sean Murphy behind the plate, and their top prospect is Tyler Soderstrom. Soderstrom is probably athletic enough to move to 3B, but Contreras isn't good enough defensively to get them to try to do that. Langeliers is, but you didn't mention him.
They have Ramon Laureano in CF and control him for 3 more years. He's going to miss the first month as he finishes serving his PED suspension, but he's a *elluva lot better hitter than Pache's shown signs of becoming.
This is just another in the long line of examples of you thinking somebody else will take the Braves' trash for their treasure. The market for Olson is huge, but you somehow think they'll trade him here for pennies on the dollar. They're trying to build their next playoff team, and the three names you mentioned have absolutely no chance of being part of that OR being used in other trades to get them pieces that will. That is the textbook definition of a stupid trade offer.
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
Do you really miss your days as a blogger??
Im not the one who checked in with the As GM. If he didnt have what it needs to get a player (any payer) like Olson why did he bother asking? Beane doesnt like the ones I threw out then who do you suggest he will ask AA for? Whomever they have to come from surplus.
Im not the one who checked in with the As GM. If he didnt have what it needs to get a player (any payer) like Olson why did he bother asking? Beane doesnt like the ones I threw out then who do you suggest he will ask AA for? Whomever they have to come from surplus.
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You'd hope they'd have already worked that part out ahead of this point in case they were able to come to terms today, but I'm skeptical that they have. If word of that leaked, it would certainly reduce the leverage Freddie's agents have with other clubs. Other GMs would be able to say "he's already taken his physical and you just have to iron out contract language - you're just using me to try to milk a few more dollars or another year from the Braves".
SJ24
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The more pertinent question would be whether you'd ever heard of any of the other names I mentioned?
True, but after signing Freddie and being stuck with Ozuna I doubt we have the cash to add Olson.
sturg33
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Can't we just print more like the fed?
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
So you send me Olson and Andrus for Swanson and Pache plus whomever and you dont save any money, have better production at SS and have a top whatever prospect by some reasoning and thats not good enough for a rebuilding team?
Maybe not. Im not a GM, not a blogger, dont really give a crap about Oakland, simply killing time til April. BTW hows the real estate business? Lake James hasnt turned into a mudhole has it?
Maybe not. Im not a GM, not a blogger, dont really give a crap about Oakland, simply killing time til April. BTW hows the real estate business? Lake James hasnt turned into a mudhole has it?
I wish!
I tried but the dollar store wouldn't accept it
Did Cy's mom accept it?
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