Rosterbating in late July: The heat makes it messier...

Which is a shame because I liked him most. He’s out 2-6 weeks and possibly longer with a thumb injury. Seeing a hand specialist today.

They are all young and cheap and on non-contending teams. Non-contenders give up expensive veterans, not young cheap talent. I’d love Strasburg, Stanton, Longoria, and Felix Hernandez as well, but they just aren’t available.

Team doesn’t need tweaking. We’ve got a 7 game lead, have hit well, pitched well, and have a deep and versatile bench. I just simply don’t think there’s a guy out there that is the magic bullet. If you want to make the team better, get another right handed power arm for the pen.

We aren’t talking Carlos Beltran to the Astros type players…a guy that takes his team from good to great. There’s a bunch of low-in-the-order outfielders available, most of whom people are expecting to collapse at any minute. Look at a guy’s baseball card. Is the limited production boost worth the fact that he will eventually go back to his career numbers?

The Braves are in a position to be a very good team for the next 10 years. We have some great pitching in the minor leagues. Keep that core together. Don’t trade another Adam Wainwright for another JD Drew, please. Keep our talented pitching, pass on the mediocre outfielders.

why not go bigger (literally and figuratively) and get the Prince? To be honest, I don’t really like the guy, but that is pretty much the definition of an impact bat. That way the Braves can, at a minimum, collect draft picks for him at the end of the season.

You are whiffing badly here—-or more likely just making a big mess. Dunn may be available if the Nats can’t come to a long term deal with him, and they may well not be able to do that. However, unless the Nats are just stupid beyond belief, the package for him would have to be centered around good prospects, not Troy Glaus. If the Nats move Dunn, that is the white flag on this season—-what good would Glaus do them for next year? None at all since he isn’t signed. Therefore, Glaus has no value to them whatsoever. And from all the indications, the Nats want a king’s ransom for Dunn—-they reportedly refused Daniel Hudson or Viciendo from the White Sox and insisted on Gordan Beckham at which point talks broke down. I don’t know what they would want from us, but it would be Freeman or Teheran at a minimum, I am sure, and that is too much since we already have Glaus.

The Yankees don’t tend to be that stupid. Nobody will take Lowe’s contract. It just won’t happen. And certainly not where we unload Kawakami’s contract (although it isn’t too bad), and actually get talent in return. Basically you are suggesting that we trade: Lowe (serious negative value), Kawakami (more or less no value given the contract), Resop (marginal value at best), and Bethancourt (single A prospect at the one position that the Yankees have a ton of prospects at) for Vazquez who has positive value and Chad Gaudin who has more or less no value. While I would love for us to get Javy and Chad (Javy b/c he is good, Chad b/c I know him), the Yankees would probably put on call block for offering that.

I am not sure what you mean about the Blue Jays giving up so much for so little in the Escobar trade—-while I think it was a good deal for both sides, the benefit to the Braves was ridding themselve of the clubhouse cancer, not improved talent. Escobar, while struggling this year, is under team control and has produced very well offensively and defensively at SS. The Blue Jays won the talent portion, we won the less headaches portion. (And with Edwin Encarnacion on the same side of the infield, the Blue Jay headache quotient might be off the charts now, lol.)

As for Bautista, he can probably be had relatively cheaply, although that is because he really isn’t any good.

hes perfect for us. also he would come alot cheaper then the other guys with alot more upside then any of them.

Steve Avery didn’t either. He fared just fine. Good pitching is good pitching, and while it is true some guys perform exceptionally well or poorly in high pressure situations, I would be willing to take my chances with guys like Jurrjens and Hanson. They both have the goods to deliver. A 3 man rotation is all that is necessary in October, move Lowe and Medlen along with KK, Saito, and Wagner into the pen, and watch the Braves shut teams down.

Podsednik isn’t really a better option than anyone.

because of money alone. Why add tons of salary for more pitching when we already have tons? It doesn’t make sense. Wren has already said we aren’t going to be shopping in the pitching aisle, and that makes perfect sense.

As for Podsednik, he’s not a very good player. We could probably get him cheapish, but what is the point of getting another mediocre outfielder? Don’t we have enough already? I mean, he is having a pretty good year for him this year and his OPS+ is still under 100, which is really bad because he’s more of a left fielder than a center fielder. And, yes, he is fast, but he gets caught stealing so much, his stolen base attempts are actually a net negative.

if you can include kawkami or lowe (kick some money houston’s way) to offset oswalt’s cost then I say it’s something to look into. Something centered around Delgado then

(1) McLouth is his name. (2) I really think he may have the hitters’ version of Steve Blass disease and may never again get it going; and that the Braves would do well to salary dump him in return for literally anything at all.

…he won’t be as cheap as you think (for starters, someone else would give more), and it might be tough because our biggest surplus/trading chip is SP prospects, and Tampa might be the one team with as many or more of them than we have. (Well, Tampa, Texas, and Kansas City.)

Dexter Fowler is still under team control in Colorado, he isn’t going anywhere. He does also tear up lefties—-but he can’t hit righties. He just started switch-hitting as a pro and he just isn’t that good from the left side yet.

That wall collision looked ugly. Man, the Royals really can’t catch a break. DeJesus could have fetched some prospects to work with. Dayton Moore is probably pissed.

…young, cheap, good player. They don’t come cheaply.

not to mention the idea of your top 4 for the next several years being Hanson, Jurrjens, Medlen, and Greinke in any order is about as rosterbatory as you can get heh

Glaus is untradeable. Period.

Why would be want to add another lefty to a team that already has to many lefties. We struggle against LH pitching because of this.

we want to make our super LH lineup MORE lefty dominated…

that makes sense if we want to win

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He might be. The Cubs aren’t going anywhere this year and Byrd has been one of the few players who has hit well all season for them. It might take a lot to get him though. He’s in the first year of a 3 year $15M deal, but if he became available he would be a good catch.

depending on what he wants, I’d definitely keep an eye on him. He’s likely slightly below average in the field but his bat has returned for the most part (lost some power) so he has looked very solid so far

He seems to be having a pretty legit season and he fits the CF spot. I also keep hearing that he has “good defense” although I’m lazy and haven’t looked stuff up to verify that. However, I think the Giants have to fade a bit in order to get him (which wont happen because of their pitching).

The Giants are still in contention, and they have precious little hitting. They want guys who can hit now, not prospects. If they were out of it, yeah, this would make sense. But since the Giants are contenders, it just won’t happen.

not a good option. No thanks.

yeah right i’ll believe it when i see it. the only way they take mcout is if we pay all or most of his contract.

Silent is an understatement. Nothing, zero, nada being said. I like it cause it usually means Wren is doing something nobody expects, but frankly it’s driving me a little bonkers. I can’t wait to know the plan going forward.

It is like trading Figgins for less than a B pitching prospect because McLouth’s value is negative. Yeah, Figgins is stinking up the joint this year, but he has a long, good track record, and the Mariners have him for three more years. I am sure they would move him for the right offer, but I don’t think they would just give him away, which is what your suggested deal would be.

…but it will never happen. We need an OF and they have Werth extra, but need pitching, which we have extra. That’s why it makes sense. The Braves and Phillies are also locked in a division race and both know that the other is the biggest threat so they don’t want to do anything to improve the other team. That’s why it won’t happen.

Legit solid player.

…was in Atlanta a few years ago. I remember that game well. After that game, the Astros would have to be crazy to put him back out there, it was horrible. He’s just not an OF anymore.