Gondee: “I’m really getting tired of everyone around baseball thinking they can fix the Braves, or offer up their suggestions for signing this player or trading for that player. ESPN’s Buster Olney is the latest to try and play at GM”

I’d be fine signing Orlando Hudson for 2nd and then using KJ as trade bait to get a legitmate ace or power bat. O-Dawg, Esco, Kotchman, and even Chipper lately would make a great defensive infield and help our pitching staff.

The Peavy story is so day before yesterday, Olney is out of touch if he thinks the Braves will change their policy on no-trade clauses and he hasn’t properly considered the implications of Moorad buying the Padres. Plus the back years of Peavy’s deal are a terrible financial burden and budget buster.. When Peavy is making 22 million or so, one of our young current AA lefties will probably be a better pitcher and a better fit for our rotation.

Now we read that Kawakami is down to three teams and guess who isn’t among them. Fine with me. Every time the Braves avoid a bidding situation for a pitcher I’m happy.

Which leaves us with Bowman’s report on Lowe, yes the Braves are interested but not for more than the Mets offered (and Lowe declined.) Hooray for fiscal restraint. One of these days a Boras client is going to hit a wall of resistance from owners, and Lowe could be it.

The names of our prospective top starters keep changing, and my ambivalence only grows with each new name. That’s because Tim Hudson, a perfectly adequate #1, will be back in August, and Tommy Hanson, our future #1 is already taxi-ing on the runway. Who knows, John Smoltz could also come back, and I’m not ready to put a ceiling on Jair Jurrjens after he surprised everyone last year. Even if we go with our present roster, the worst that could happen is more major league experience for guys like Charlie Morton, Jo-Jo Reyes, and Jorge Campillo, or some other kid who could pop out in the Spring. There’s a top Cuban free agent Yadel Marti out there as well, if we move fast.

I expect to be watching the Braves in high definition this year. So even if the team isn’t much better, the experience of watching them will be. By 2011 we should be ready to make another run at the postseason, so long as we think long term.

I’m still on the boat of lets just use 2009 as a year to rebuild and give our young players another year to get better. We already have some nice young players in McCann, Kotchman, Johnson, Escobar, and Jurrjens along with some good guys in the bullpen. Lets stop the talk about spending a lot of money on players who won’t be around any more than a couple of years. We could use the money that we would save and start locking up our young players like the Rays have been doing.

Looking at the Braves now, obviously we’re not the big spenders of the 90’s – we’re gonna have to go the more home grown route – I think Yunel is a great SS on the field – i think he’s a great 2 hitter – has a great arm, and although his character’s been called into question – on the field he’s good. I can’t think of another young SS i’d rather have on our lineup. I think we’re on the right track, we’ve just had a crappy off season. if Johnson comes into spring training like he played in August/September, we get our OF situated – we should be ok – if we hadn’t lost Smoltz, Hudson, and Glavine last year bc of injuries we’d be in a totally different situation – the injury bug hurt us and we just need to be economical as we retool for the next few years. just my opinon though.

I have a feeling that Grant Green, the SS from USC, is going to fall to us at #7 due to issues of signability. The kid is pretty nasty. We would choose him in a heartbeat and with out 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round picks, we’d select Big, Projectible SPs.

Green would be our SS of the future (in a year, actually).

But that’s A LONG way from happening. Personally, I would prefer we draft Tyler Matzek in the first round, but that’s me.

didn’t read all the posts.

my bad