Last night, at the bottom of the current thread, cbwilk reiterated that thew ban on random rosterbation posts remained in full force and effect; and suggested that a new thread could be started and recommended up whenever necessary.

So, I’m taking him up on that.

I will delete this fanpost later on, if it is not recommended. Thanks.

Interesting proposal coming from GM meetings. Bradley to the Blue Jays, Overbay to the Mets, and Castillo to the Cubs.

ok, i know its pretty unlikely, but is it even feasible for the braves to sign matt holliday without dumping lowes contract? i know he’s a boras client and heard he’s lookin for a multi-year deal in the 100 million range but if we could do it’d definatley be a free agent signing for the decade. or maybe i just have some kinda man crush on him

johnny damon in left field next year anyone? how much is he lookin for?

I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this before, but how about Mike Cameron on a 1 year deal and move McLouth to LF? Cameron is an upgrade defensively over Nate and offensively over GA.

That kind of move also doesn’t block Schafer if/when he’s ready to come back to the show.

Given his production and his availability, I would give the farm outside of Heyward for him. Medlen, Schafer, Freeman, and Teheran is a pretty good package. And really good package. That sounds fun. And he is available. Depending on what SD wants, we could be players there. He is a 1B and wow he is exactly what we need. Do that, play Diaz, McLouth, and Heyward in the OF and wow, we are NL favorites in one swoop. Can you imagine that team for 2010 and 2011? We can restock the minors with drafting and other trades (move a starter for prospects or something, the Pirates still exist and we can bust them in every trade, lol). Hell, I’d throw in Minor as well. Now, that would be a package.

I was reading at MLBTR that the Reds would like to trim payroll and may consider trading some of their stars away. One name that interested me was Brandon Phillips. He’s a good power hitting 2B who could be had for the right price. He’s signed for 2 more years at a total of $17.75M plus a $12M team option for 2012. I think Prado, a upper minors arm, and a low minors prospect would get him.

I read somewhere where it said that the Reds actually might be looking to deal Joey Votto. They have some kid Yonder Alonso who is apparently a stud at first base and is pretty close to being ready…

i think they’d bite on a deal involving julio teheran and medlen…that would definately be worth it in my opinion…thoughts?

found a video on mlb.com, it must have done a few years back. it was when boone logan was with the white sox, but they were breaking down all of the “closers of the future”

they had guys like heath bell, chad qualls, johnathon broxton, carlos marmol (who all panned out pretty good)…but they also had boone logan? is there something im missing with this or what?

Mike Gonzalez seems to be drawing a lot of interest on the free agent market which means that we will be offering him arbitration.
The Indians would love to trade Kerry Wood. I know he’s not a a great closer but if the Indians sent a prospect along with him, I would like Lonnie Chisenhall whose a 21 year old 3B prospect whose at AA. I’m not sure who we would send their way but its worth a shot.

Trade Nate McLouth, Kris Medlen, Freddie Freeman, Brandon Hicks and Cole Rohrbough to the Padres for Adrian Gonzalez.

Trade Derek Lowe to the Diamondbacks for Coner Jackson and Josh Ellis.

Trade Kelly Johnson, Ryan Church and Manny Acosta to the White Sox Bobby Jenks.

Sign Jason Bay – 6 yr/ 90 mil contract; Mike Cameron – 1 yr/ 4 mil contract; Bobby Crosby – 2 yr/ 3 mil contract.

Re-sign Mike Gonzalez – 3 yr/ 18 mil contract.

Extend Javier Vazquez – 3 yr/ 30 mil contract.

Lineup:
Diaz(3 mil)/Schafer(425K) – RF (3.425 mil)
Prado – 2B (425K)
Jones – 3B (13 mil)
Gonzalez – 1B (4.75 mil)
Bay – LF – (15 mil)
McCann – C (6 mil – rounded)
Escobar – SS (500K)
Cameron – CF (4 mil)

Total – 47.1 mil

Bench:
Diaz/Schafer – OF (See Above)
Ross – C (1.6 mil)
Infante – Super Utility (2 mil – rounded)
Crosby – IF (1.5 mil)
Jackson – 1B/OF – (3 mil)

Total – 8.1 mil

Starting pitching:
Vazquez – RHP (10 mil)
Jurrjens – RHP (450K)
Hudson – RHP (9 mil)
Hanson – RHP (400K)
Kawakami – RHP (7.5 mil – rounded)

Total – 27.35 mil

Bullpen:
Parr – LRP (400K)
Logan/Gomez/Hyde – LOOGY (600K – If Boone is tendered)
Valdez/Kimbrel – MRP (400K)
O’Flaherty – MRP (400K)
Moylan – SUP (1.5 mil)
Gonzalez – CP/SUP (6 mil)
Jenks – CP/SUP (7.5 mil)

Total – 16.8 mil

Which would give us a grand total of – 99.35 give or take about 2 mil. This would definitely be a championship caliber team.

The Rays are a small budget team, with a payroll of $65,126,368 in 2009, ranking as the 25th lowest out of 30 MLB teams. They would like to hold on to Carl Crawford, the face of the franchise, and he might be willing to stay, although it is far from a sure thing or a done deal.

Pena too is in the last year of his contract, will earn $10,250,000, the Rays highest salary for 2010, has Boras as his agent, and will almost surely walk after the 2010 season.

So the Rays need to dump Pena’s salary in order to make a serious push to try to keep Crawford.

And the Braves have major league ready players and excellent prospects to offer.

It might really make sense for the Braves depending on exactly how much we have to give up.

To keep LaRoche, who made $7,050,000 in 2009, we would have to give him at least two years at $9,000,000 or more per year and this would block Freeman. On the other hand, Pena would give us a big time cleanup hitter, gold glove defense, and 2 virtually guaranteed supplemental picks when he leaves after 2010. Most importantly, Pena is the superior player and would significantly increase our opportunity to compete for a championship in 2010.

Thoughts?

This is Wren’s biggest problem.

For acquistion of a one year rental, or even an aging, stop-gap vet, it seems like it would be very easy to give up too much. Do we want the team to go all in on making a one year run at the championship, or not?

Bear in mind that in suggesting a trade for Carlos Pena, my starting point was the assumption he could possibly be available on a salary dump basis. Of course, if this was true, we know the Mets and some other teams would want to be in on the bidding.

How much to give up – i.e., what would make sense, taking into account that giving up pieces like Meds or Logan and/or gutting the farm on a World Series or Bust approach, may be just stupid – really does strike me as a who the hell knows type issue.

In all seriousness, I highly doubt the Braves will make a big shift away from what they have done historically – scout, draft and develop young talent, stick with them and give them the every opportunity to succeed and rise up to the Major League level.

I saw today that the Giants were looking to add a starter to their roster. Someone to bridge the gap from Cain, Zito, and Lincecum. I thought that they might be interested in Derek Lowe. Lowe has 3 years and $45M left on his contract at $15M per season. The Giants minor leagues are top heavy and Lowe isn’t worth Bumgarner or Posey. So I thought about a contract swap someone who could be useful to both teams. That’s when I thought what about Aaron Rowand. Rowand has 3 years and $36M remaining on his deal at $12M per season. He does have a limited no trade clause.

Many of you will scoff at this idea because you have this illusion that we will be able to trade Lowe and his entire salary and get something in return for it. If we move Lowe it will be 1 of 3 ways: either we eat almost all his salary and get 1 or 2 useful prospects back, eat a little of his salary and get nothing back, or we swap similar contracts with another team.

If we eat some of his contract and get someone back then I think that the other team will want us to eat $3-5M per season.

Even if we get another team to take him off our hands they may want some money back. Maybe $1-2M per season.

If we swap contracts with the Giants we get useful who like Lowe is over payed. Rowand is entering the 3rd year of a 5 year deal. Last season he hit .261/.319/.419 with 15 HR’s. He still plays good defense. Getting him out of San Francisco should improve his power. In a neutral park he should hit 20-25 HR’s a year again. Plus we save $3M a year for the next 3 years which would allow us to tinker with the bullpen or help resign LaRoach.

MLBTR is reporting that we are now among the 10 to 12 teams that are vying for his services. Probably won’t happen. Just thought I’d let everyone know since I haven’t seen his name on this thread yet.

Free agency starts in 12.5 hours.

Hey, I have no idea if this was stated above or not cause I dont feel like reading that much but what do yall think about picking up Baldelli? The braves wanted him before and like his skills when he is not injured. IF he can stay healthy I really think he could be a solid pickup and a cheaper option to play right or left field for a bit till Heyward is ready. Heres his states last year with BoSox off the bench: 150AB, 7HR, 23RBI, 11BB, 37SO, .253AVG, .433SLUG

sign rich harden as our closer lol