Truth In Rumors

Why? K Law is easily the most intelligent baseball writer out there.

his chats, when they discuss the Braves, are patronizing and intolerable. I think he believes they are an “old school” organization, and he believes the numbers revolution makes the “old school” obsolete. Some guys on both sides think it’s like a war, and I get the feeling the Klaw is one of them.

although it may mean they found someone (other than Ramirez) to spend the money on and that was why the Alvord deal fell through.

Personally, I wish they’d signed at least one of the two youngsters, if not both. If they are worth it, then bring them in and deal with the big club finances as they come. Of course, this doesn’t put Liberty Media in a good light since it’d mean they were pretty tight with the checkbook for players the front office clearly felt was worth the sizeable investment. It also puts them in a dangerous position to be second guessed by fans (not that it won’t be done anyway as there always seems to be a group complaining about one thing or another), but seeing the complaints over Rendon for Rice, imagine a trade isn’t made, and in three years Alvord and Sabol are first round players, and the whiners will have a field day with this decision.

All a trade would do is give him a $1 mil assignment bonus.

But August isn’t over yet…If Gondeee’s rumor is true, then Aramis Ramirez cannot be the only player the FO is targeting. Why wouldn’t they have simply signed Alvord or Sabol when the talks for Ramirez crumbled? They are saving the cash.

I have no clue who they are targeting, though. And, if my opinion matters to anyone, if we don’t make a move that makes sense or if we don’t make a move at all, then we would be giving up two signings for nothing…At this point, I would much rather have those two guys in our system…

That money has been saved in case Wren (more than likely) does go after someone – at the very least for bench depth.

KLaw isn’t a reporter. His job is not to find scoops. He is a scout, whose job is to tell us what players will be good.

and Rec’d

Also, Aramis Ramirez is therefore a moron.
 
“Hey, Aramis. Frank Wren here. The Atlanta Braves are very interested in your services for the remainder of this year. But you make too goddam much money. We would like to renegotiate your deal. Whadda say, holmes?”
 
“What? You mean take less money for a shot at a World Series title? NEVAR!” (click)
 
(dead line)

There are several things that would lead to top players’ signability improving right before the deadline:

• Agents Advisers are trying to get every penny for their clients so they can brag about how well they did to their future clients
• MLB generally frowns on teams signing guys overslot, particularly early in the process. If a team announced a 17th-round signing a month ago with a 1st-round signing bonus, every club with a pick from 2-16 is screwed.
• The performance of the player over the course of the summer may have been equal to or above expectations. That’s certainly motivation to get a deal done for the team.

People keep saying that a player is/isn’t on waivers…Where’s a good source to determine whether this is the case or not? If a player is placed on waivers, is this automatically public news? Just curious.

I don’t suppose Frank had any comments about the possibility of signing any remaining unsigned daftees before the deadline (now nearly 2 hours passed as I write this)?

Yeah, while we ALL have a compulsive craving for additional/inside information, we’re often handicapped by the fact that when info finally does become available, it has often already been overcome by events… hence the annoying tendancy that rumors have of being raised and debunked within the same day.

But right, wrong, or somewhere in the middle: it’s great fodder for discussion!

Arizona’s 6th pick; SDiego’s 9th, and Milwaukee’s 14th.

I like you. I like the way you misspell Schuerholz and the fact you randomly capitalize words within your sentences.

It’s rough to sit through these games and not have someone that can’t hit a Ball?

Allow yourself some time when reading and rereading this sentence, folks…

-C

I wish to learn more about your ministry. Do you have some sort of literature I could subscribe to? A Twitter feed? How about an interstate billboard?

Me=FAIL

i think this is saying that that alvord and his dad value either college education or the experience of playing college ball very highly, so that only a lot of money could pry them away. just my $0.02, i could be totally wrong

If a player signs out of HS, thus forgoing his college eligibility, the team is required to pay for college for him, whenever he decides to go. So yes, the team has to pay for your college, even if it ends up being years later. Heck, Brian McCann could make the Braves pay for him to go to college.