Teheran to the DL

[Southcack77]

Two years ago he was killing it. Do you remember what was given up for guys that had come from nowhere like Porcello?? It was a massive sellers market with few options. I have no doubt we could have gotten a decent package. I have no doubt (now that we know the real Coppy), he was trying to rape everyone and Julio’s stuff wasn’t “that” good, so people just stayed away.

Why would you hold onto a good pitcher when you suck....have the one if the worst records in baseball, are rebuilding and not looking like it’s gonna get better very soon?? Julio was a top 10 pitcher in MLB for most of that year leading up to the deadline and was cheap and had years of control. He was the absolute BEST starting pitcher available at that deadline and was pitching about the best he ever had.

We dropped the ball period. It was a no brainer to trade him. He was due to regress...little did we know how much he would, but it was THE time to sell high on him.

Absolute boneheaded, short sighted decision.

Look, they probably should have traded him at the very beginning when he might actually have been worth a lot.

But I think your idea of what they could have gotten back is probably not correct. I think they were likely looking at some more mid-tier prospects. They chose to go with the cheap controlled back end rotation piece that sometimes pitched like a #3.

At that point they were trying to be decent when they moved into the new park and were talking about trading for Sale and Archer and the like.

The Braves did not want a five year tank and to be fair to them, they didn't have one. They were bad for three years.