Who’s next?

Russ2dollas said:
Carrasco ends up being the pitcher. Cheaper than Kluber and less competition. Indians hungry for cheap arms like fried. We get a 3-4 win guy on a two year 20 million or so deal. Moving to the national league.
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Im not as big on Carrasco at most. My order of preference (not looking at acquisition or contract cost at all is):

Thor
Bauer
Kluber
Carrasco
MadBum (although if he could be his old self he'd prob be near the top)
 
zbhargrove said:
Im not as big on Carrasco at most. My order of preference (not looking at acquisition or contract cost at all is):

Thor
Bauer
Kluber
Carrasco
MadBum (although if he could be his old self he'd prob be near the top)
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I think Cleveland wants to keep Bauer.
 
Mazara is a bit of a speculative play for a contender, but I guess I've been high on Frazier. But Mazara has a ton of at bats now with subpar performance in the field and at the plate. Badly needs a breakout, but only 23.
 
If I'm AA I'm looking at the teams who are looking at Machado and Harper. They'll be looking to shed some salary and/or create some room for their new toy.
 
Just a thought, Camargo is going to be a big piece for this team going forward being our super utility player, but like others have mentioned, for the right deal, I wouldn't be opposed to moving him....

With Seattle going into a rebuild, if you could build a deal around Camargo for Diaz to keep some of our stud prospects, would you do it? Obviously it would not be Camargo for Diaz straight up, but he seems like a piece they would covet
 
bravesfanforlife88 said:
Move Teheran to Detroit for salary relief
DFA Duvall and Sam Freeman
Trade for Kluber
Sign Brantley
Trade Wright/Gohara/Allard for Diaz
Sign a bench piece...Josh Harrison?

Oh, and at some point hire a pitching coach

Inciarte Cf
Brantley LF
Freeman 1B
Donaldson 3B
Acuña Rf
Albies 2B
Flowers/McCann C
Swanson SS

Kluber
Folty
Newcomb
Gausman
Touki/Soroka/Wilson

Flowers/McCann
Culberson
Camargo
Harrison

Diaz
Viz
Minter
Venters
Sobotka
Biddle
O’day
Winkler

That team would be scary
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That rotation still lacks substance after Folty. Soroka really needs to come back healthy for us to be better than we were last year. Even with Kluber, I'd rather go get another vet arm than rely on Newk to be anything more than he has shown to date. He should be the one dealt for Diaz and not Gohara.
 
camargo will be super valuable to the squad being the super-sub type. moving him make so little sense to me unless a team truly values him as like a 4 WAR player.
 
bravesfanforlife88 said:
Just a thought, Camargo is going to be a big piece for this team going forward being our super utility player, but like others have mentioned, for the right deal, I wouldn't be opposed to moving him....

With Seattle going into a rebuild, if you could build a deal around Camargo for Diaz to keep some of our stud prospects, would you do it? Obviously it would not be Camargo for Diaz straight up, but he seems like a piece they would covet
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Having Camargo and using him like a Zobrist/Marwin/CTaylor type who can play everywhere is too valuable to trade him. Braves bench was a huge weakness last year. Trading him only further hurts it.
 
Heyward said:
Having Camargo and using him like a Zobrist/Marwin/CTaylor type who can play everywhere is too valuable to trade him. Braves bench was a huge weakness last year. Trading him only further hurts it.
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Agreed that he would be a very valuable piece. Like I said, the trade would have to make sense where we instantly upgrade another position....I'd rather not trade him.
 
bravesfanforlife88 said:
Agreed that he would be a very valuable piece. Like I said, the trade would have to make sense where we instantly upgrade another position....I'd rather not trade him.
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Unless we're getting an elite player under control for awhile, no. Braves need better depth, i mean our bench in the playoffs was Rene Rivera, Zuk, Lane Adams, Flaherty and Duda. Other than Duda, that's just terrible. Dodgers OTOH had guys like Dozier, Puig, Chris Taylor, Muncy, and David Freese off the bench. A strong bench especially in the NL is huge. I say pass.
 
Heyward said:
Unless we're getting an elite player under control for awhile, no. Braves need better depth, i mean our bench in the playoffs was Rene Rivera, Zuk, Lane Adams, Flaherty and Duda. Other than Duda, that's just terrible. Dodgers OTOH had guys like Dozier, Puig, Chris Taylor, Muncy, and David Freese off the bench. A strong bench especially in the NL is huge. I say pass.
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If you want clues to what the Braves will do, look at what the Dodgers are doing.
 
Enscheff said:
If you want clues to what the Braves will do, look at what the Dodgers are doing.
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Yep and Camargo is tailor made for that Chris Taylor/Kike Hernandez type of role, minus the ability to play CF. It wouldn't surprise me to see Anthopoulos try to get another versatile super utility type that is left handed and/or hits righties well. I think he means it when he says that he wants to rotate our lineup pretty often and have a more flexible team that can mix and match according to the pitcher we're facing that day.

The Dodgers didn't have a single player have over 600 at bats last year. The Braves had 3 and Ender had 597. I think we're gonna try to spread the at bats a little more evenly this season.
 
BeanieAntics said:
Yep and Camargo is tailor made for that Chris Taylor/Kike Hernandez type of role, minus the ability to play CF. It wouldn't surprise me to see Anthopoulos try to get another versatile super utility type that is left handed and/or hits righties well. I think he means it when he says that he wants to rotate our lineup pretty often and have a more flexible team that can mix and match according to the pitcher we're facing that day.

The Dodgers didn't have a single player have over 600 at bats last year. The Braves had 3 and Ender had 597. I think we're gonna try to spread the at bats a little more evenly this season.
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Dietrich doesn't play any position well. But he plays many positions passably. There is value in that.
 
nsacpi said:
Dietrich doesn't play any position well. But he plays many positions passably. There is value in that.
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I'd be fine with that. I know defense is really important to us and that we are willing to sacrifice a little offensive upside to get that defensive value into the starting lineup. A lot of that offense can be made up for by having a strong offensive bench.
 
BeanieAntics said:
I'd be fine with that. I know defense is really important to us and that we are willing to sacrifice a little offensive upside to get that defensive value into the starting lineup. A lot of that offense can be made up for by having a strong offensive bench.
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we need a Duda-like bench bat who can play multiple positions
 
AA said in an interview today on Fox Sports Braves on twitter that they wanna get an outfielder but dont wanna sacrifice too much defense for the bat. Kinda interesting. Still working to find the best fit. But pretty clear they want to improve the outfield. He also said this offseason they wanted to get better offensively.
 
nsacpi said:
we need a Duda-like bench bat who can play multiple positions
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Camargo sets up as the primary RHH bench bat, so I agree with needing a LHH bench bat to compliment him. I have to imagine Duvall is as good as gone now?

A LHH bench bat that plays cOF means the primary cOF should be a RHH, which is why I lean towards favoring Cutch over Brantley now.
 
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