Braves Agree to Terms with Peter Moylan on a One-Year Contract
by gondeee on Jan 19, 2010 3:44 PM EST
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The Braves have agreed to terms with side-arming Australian reliever Peter Moylan on a one-year contract, thus avoiding arbitration. Moylan was the last arbitration-eligible Braves player. Mark Bowman reports the deal is worth $1.15 million -- a very reasonable price for a valuable setup man.
Bowman also reports that the Pirates have claimed outfielder Brandon Jones, whom the Braves DFA'ed to make room for Eric Hinske on the 40-man roster. That's a good situation for Brandon to be in, he should be of some use on that team.
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It is so nice to be a Braves fan today rather than a Mets fan…the news has been nothing but good for us for quite some time now, while the NYM news is very depressing.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I am glad Omar is not our GM.
"My team of nine guys who hit like Albert Pujols and never ever bunt just beat your team with one Shane Victorino 472 to 3."
by justincredubil02 on Jan 19, 2010 3:50 PM EST reply actions
Like this move a lot
was worried about Pete going to arb.. just something that is good to avoid.
Woah, no KC for BJones?!? okay…
"Ain't no sense worrying: If you have no control over something, ain't no sense worrying about it -you have no control over it anyway. If you do have control, why worry? So either way, there ain't no sense worrying."
-Mickey Rivers
Didn’t PIT have a worse record than KC? So even if KC made a claim PIT’s woul have won out? Not entirely sure how it works because they said on MLBTR WSH had a claim on him too
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by HansonManCrush on Jan 19, 2010 4:06 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
The waiver process...
…gives the NL first shot over the AL. The Royals couldn’t claim him unless the entire NL passed. The Nats had first shot with the worst record in the NL. The Pirates were second.
It took a year and a half, but Swagga is finally going to Pittsburgh. Remember, he was supposed to be the big return in the deal that would have sent Jason Bay to Atlanta.
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damn, just damn....
talk about some bad deals. Have the Pirates gotten ANYTHING worth while outside of Charlie Morton and Andy LaRoche in their last several deals?
Yes.
"My team of nine guys who hit like Albert Pujols and never ever bunt just beat your team with one Shane Victorino 472 to 3."
by justincredubil02 on Jan 19, 2010 5:36 PM EST up reply actions
Tim Alderson immediately pops to mind. I thought that was a pretty stunning return for Freddy Sanchez. Looking at some of their transactions…Getting Iwamura was good for them, since they were actually willing to take on the payroll to have a Major Leaguer…You’d like to think Kevin Hart and Jose Acanio will be decent out of the pen, but they were basically traded for nothing, so if they get nothing out of them it’s pretty break even…Getting Jeff Clement was big, he’s a very good hitter, and they got three young arms with him who are at least probably better than the guys that were already with the Pirates…They got hosed for Adam LaRoche, Argenis Diaz is a great defender who will never hit and Hunter Strickland is a AAA pitcher…They got nothing for Eric Hinske…
I think the real problem is that they just haven’t had anything worth trading. We all love Adam LaRoche, but there are serious knocks on him and we saw that this offseason. Jack Wilson is a great player and a great teammate, but he’s far from a great hitter. Freddy Sanchez’s entire value is wrapped up in batting average. Ian Snell and Tom Gorzelanny sucked. John Grabow is a dime a dozen lefty. Eric Hinske is just a bench player. If they really had parts worth getting something in return, they wouldn’t be as bad as they continually are.
I will say getting John Raynor in the Rule 5 draft was very good, he’s Major League ready and a real burner at the top of the order.
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AW SHUCKS
Ya mean The Pirates got him b4 KC ? AW POO !!!!
How long before the Aussie outperforms his contract (in a good way)?
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-Mickey Rivers
He could hit $1.5 worth by the A-S break pretty easily.
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by MichaelProcton on Jan 19, 2010 6:35 PM EST up reply actions
Oh hell yeah. I love Moylan!!
Well deserved for all the times he was called upon..especially having come off TJ surgery the year before.
Hopefully this guy continues to perform cause I want to see him in a Braves uniform for years to come.
Moylan the Millionare. You da mayon, mate.
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by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Jan 19, 2010 5:45 PM EST reply actions
GREAT
That is a bargain for his services.. I am very happy to have him around for another season. I think that he is certain to outperform his contract. Great pitching staff all the way around.
Pittsburgh
The problem with pittsburgh isn’t that they don’t get value in their trades…it is that they are forced to trade too often..and trade from a position of weakness. Keep in mind that if you have strong core of a team these deadline deals don’t have to pay huge dividends…but fill the holes. In the past they have had luck getting Brian Giles from the Indians…and then flipping Giles to the Padres for Bay and Perez.
As for Brandon Jones…don’ they have a glut of OFers? Not to say they are quality..but they are going to have a number of guys.
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Me and Orlando Hudson. Really nice guy. He thinks he might be going to the Nats.
Viva los Bravos ~
by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Jan 19, 2010 6:39 PM EST reply actions
do you carry around pictures of that size of all players?
"If I have asthma, they won't let me scuba. And if I can’t scuba, then what’s this all been about?? What am I working toward??"
Not usually. He was visiting a college that he once attended. I work there. We had a framed pic of him and asked him to sign it. Me and him went off to the side, but a bunch of local photographers followed us over and took pics of it.
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by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Jan 20, 2010 9:00 AM EST up reply actions
anyone else think he would’ve been at least as good, if not better, than Prado alone when serving in a platoon with Odarp?
I’m all for getting him, I’m very wary of a Prado decline. I don’t know if O-Dog is worth being an everyday starter anymore, that point is debatable, but the insurance would be great and no I don’t think a platoon of those two would be worse than Prado alone. In fact I’m fairly certain it would be better. He’d have to come cheap, of course. I’d roll the dice on him for 2-3M, but anything more is not a frugal use of resources.
He RACKSSS. He's done 8 for me a few times
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Seriously, O-Dawg is the shit. Super cool dude.
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Yeah dude. And he's rlly cool about talking 2 u also.
When he came in with the D-Backs, I asked him if he wud ever come to NY to play, and he told me he loved it here. He sed it wud be his top choice we he becomes a FA. too bad Minaya is too much of a jerkoff to sign someone that will actually help the team.
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Yes, definitely a good dude. I got to hang with him a little when he came to DC in September with LA cause Eric Crozier, who he played with in Toronto, and who is from my area, happened to show up at the game, so I got to stand around and listen to them shoot the shit for 20 minutes. He’s definitely one of those guys if somebody said “pick one Major Leaguer to hang out with for a day” that you’d have to have near the top of your list.
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Is it the camera angle?
Are you monstrously tall or is the O-Dog Napoleon-esque in stature?
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by !Vive la Francoeur! on Jan 20, 2010 1:34 AM EST up reply actions
It’s probably the camera angle, but he is pretty short. Probably like 5’9".
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Partly the camera angle, but yeah, I’m maybe a hair over 6’ and Orlando couldn’t be any taller than 5’10’’.
Viva los Bravos ~
by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Jan 20, 2010 8:55 AM EST up reply actions
Brandon Jones has a better shot at playing time in Pittsburgh than he would have here. Good luck to him.
And as for Moylan coming in at $1.15MM, only one response to that: HELL YEAH. He will once again be one of the most valuable relievers in baseball.
"Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror." ~George Carlin
A true gem of a deal, Moylan is key to bullpen success in 2010
Man what a steal for a guy that made 87 relief app for us and was the best bullpen pitcher in either league after the all-star break and especially the last two mths of the season. Moylan is key to the Braves bullpen and him not being used as much this season would be a welcomed site for me, I just want him to not have to have another TJ surgery due to being overused. Hopefully Saito and Wagner can stay healthy b/c if they both go down look for Moylan to assume the closers role in ATL until one of them returns.
$1.15 million a bargain at twice the price for sure, great deal for us .
by Holty_Panthers_Fan on Jan 19, 2010 9:19 PM EST reply actions
Well, you said a partial reason why I think Atlanta got a pretty good bargain: 87 relief appearances coming off of TJ surgery. But yeah, I’m stoked about him being on board for that (relatively) insignificant chunk of money.
by soup du jour on Jan 19, 2010 9:26 PM EST up reply actions
Geez, whatta steal,
If he pitches like he did last year, he could be the “closer” on other teams!
Yeah baby :) Go Braves!
Maybe old news, but
am I to assume that the front office went back on their vow to never negotiate with the Wasserman Media Group? Had Moylan changed agents? Regardless, I am very pleased.
They could have negotiated with Peter directly. I don’t know though.
"My team of nine guys who hit like Albert Pujols and never ever bunt just beat your team with one Shane Victorino 472 to 3."
by justincredubil02 on Jan 20, 2010 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
My guess (and that’s all it is) is that since Petey was on the team before the Furcal debacle, they made an exception for him rather than ship him, a highly valuable and well-liked piece of the team, out of town because they were pissed at his agents. To the best of my knowledge though we haven’t signed any new Wasserman clients, so my bet is that any clients of theirs that were already on the team are safe, but there won’t be any newcomers from that agency.
I’m not sure why we haven’t looked the aussie up for a couple years by now. The man has been our best and most consistent pen arm for a while. He gets overworked every year but still manages a very productive stat line. I believe he has 2 more years of arb left. I say we give him a multi-year deal within that time period. Maybe with the help we have out there this year and the multiple arms Bobby trusts, it won’t be the same 3 or 4 guys every night and FW will see his value to our pen. Plus the man is going to need a few more bucks than the deal we gave him to cover his entire body in ink.
Because he's already blown his arm out once and could do it again...
Why expose yourself to the financial risk when the system doesn’t demand it?
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by MichaelProcton on Jan 20, 2010 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
true
and especially with the stockpiles of relievers we have coming up, I think its fine we didn’t get him long term, although I would’ve liked to get him until 2011.
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ~Earl Weaver
If you can help it, you just don’t lock up relievers. Think about the outstanding work he’s done and how little the team has had to pay him for it. Even if he all of the sudden went to crap this year and they had to cut him next offseason, they still would have gotten more value out of him over his Braves tenure than they paid for. It’s not fair to him, but that’s the process, constantly trying to stay ahead of having to pay for the value you’re getting.
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by cbwilk on Jan 20, 2010 4:50 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
this
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by MichaelProcton on Jan 20, 2010 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
"And who are you?"
/Peter looks into the camera.
“Pee-tah Moy-lan.”
Anyone else remeber that video with the old guy who talked all fast?
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Rack 'em?
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by MichaelProcton on Jan 21, 2010 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
Peter Moylan's Tattoos
Peter Moylan gets tattooed at All or Nothing Tattoo:
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