Official 2022 Offseason Moves Thread

Enscheff said:
I think AA saw the same thing we all saw, and pivoted to creating "SP depth" indirectly by signing McHugh and Jansen.

It's a pretty good pivot, but relies on a manager competent at managing a modern pitching staff. I'll put it nicely and say I'm skeptical Snit is the man to pull that off, but hopefully the FO can help guide him to deploying these arms in a reasonable manner. However, I suspect we are going to see more than a few leads lost because Snit insisted on stretching a tiring Muller or Wright or Davidson 5 innings...all in a the name of "resting the best BP in the league", and, "giving this kid a chance at the W".
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At least we won't have to deal with him leaving a guy out an inning too long because he was trying to work around a pitcher plate appearance. That seemed to somehow come into play every game last year.
 
Carp said:
I would hardly qualify Robbie Erlin as a "solid veteran." He was the definition of a AAAA player. He had just over 300 career innings in the 7 years prior to coming to Atlanta.

I'll give you Tommy Milone, but he had been pretty awful the prior 4 years before his 30 innings in Baltimore. And we were extremely desperate for pitchers in 2020 with everyone being injured.

A better argument would be Cole Hamels and Brandon McCarthy. Of course, I can also point to Anibal, Keuchel, and Morton. Even Smyly was useful, even if he was an expensive 5th starter. Finding a cheaper/more durable Drew Smyly would be ideal.

As far as options available via trade, I've mentioned Jake Odorizzi. Houston would dump him for peanuts. I'm sure they'd even be willing to kick in a but of cash.
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Right, but I thought we were talking about guys the Braves picked up who were basically given away for free to eat innings. Keuchal, Hamels, Morton and Smyly were all high priced signings.
 
NYCBrave said:
Right, but I thought we were talking about guys the Braves picked up who were basically given away for free to eat innings. Keuchal, Hamels, Morton and Smyly were all high priced signings.
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Correct. Including Morton- numbers wise a top 10-15 starter in baseball when we acquired him- is completely irrelevant to a conversation about scrap heap guys we might be able to find essentially for free at the end of spring training. I don't think you can include anyone who we paid $10m+ to as part of the discussion- that is an entirely different stratosphere than the guys we are talking about here. The only real success story that fits the current situation is Anibal Sanchez.
 
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