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Post by Fumbduckery on Nov 5, 2024 4:58:34 GMT -5
And by the way, there was a $2M buyout on Luke, which matters when we start splitting hairs with d'Arnaud.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Nov 5, 2024 9:06:58 GMT -5
Joe Jimenez expected to miss 8-12 months after having surgery to repair cartilage in his knee.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that seem like an awfully long recovery period for a cartilage cleanup due to normal wear and tear as it was described? I mean 12 months is entering torn ligament territory.
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Post by keystone61 on Nov 5, 2024 9:47:39 GMT -5
Has to mean Drake Baldwin is in the plans as well as payroll shedding to make a quasi big deal... Murphy and a guy who has never played at the ML level makes me feel queasy. What about Wild Bill or Langeliers? Oh yeah........ |
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Post by Fumbduckery on Nov 5, 2024 10:17:48 GMT -5
Murphy and a guy who has never played at the ML level makes me feel queasy. What about Wild Bill or Langeliers? Oh yeah........ The Brewers paid Contreras $750,000 each of the last two seasons to finish with a 5.7 and 5.4 WAR, 11th last year and 13th this year in all of baseball. And he’s not a FA until 2028. This is an epic all time MLB blunder. And I’d bet it was 100% Snitkers input to move him out. |
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Post by PABraveFan on Nov 5, 2024 10:43:20 GMT -5
Joe Jimenez expected to miss 8-12 months after having surgery to repair cartilage in his knee. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that seem like an awfully long recovery period for a cartilage cleanup due to normal wear and tear as it was described? I mean 12 months is entering torn ligament territory. It never ends for the Braves. Another $9M down the drain. No wonder they didn't offer d'Arnaud. |
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Post by wncbravesfan on Nov 5, 2024 13:39:48 GMT -5
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Tromp would be more likely to begin the season as Murphy’s backup. That’s fine as long as Murphy rebounds and catches 70-80% of the games. Murphy is the component here. If he produces like he can, having an $8M backup would be unnecessary
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Replying to @secpharmd and @mlbbowman
Murphy. Under contract.
Baldwin. Ready.
TDA might come back. Might retire. But wasn’t very good as the season dragged on.
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Post by keystone61 on Nov 5, 2024 14:59:06 GMT -5
What about Wild Bill or Langeliers? Oh yeah........ The Brewers paid Contreras $750,000 each of the last two seasons to finish with a 5.7 and 5.4 WAR, 11th last year and 13th this year in all of baseball. And he’s not a FA until 2028. This is an epic all time MLB blunder. And I’d bet it was 100% Snitkers input to move him out. Which trade was worse, Contreras or Wainwright? (Probably not a fair comparison given how long Wainwright pitched). BTW, Langeliers had a WAR of 2.9 and 29 homers. That's more than d'Arnaud and Murphy combined last season. Injury meet insult. The catching moves turned out to be the worst case scenario. |
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Post by wncbravesfan on Nov 5, 2024 20:10:16 GMT -5
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Alex Anthopoulos said the Braves chose to go down the path of adding payroll flexibility because they feel like there'll be some opportunities this offseason. They don't know where everything will end up, but they wanted that flexibility.
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Post by PABraveFan on Nov 5, 2024 20:54:24 GMT -5
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Post by Fumbduckery on Nov 5, 2024 22:16:09 GMT -5
That would be nice but it’s going to take a lot of money. |
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Post by Fumbduckery on Nov 6, 2024 1:18:57 GMT -5
From that article:
"For Atlanta, starting pitching is a sensible target area. They just lost both Max Fried and Charlie Morton to free agency, opening two holes in the starting pitching mix. That leaves them with a core of Chris Sale, Reynaldo López and Spencer Schwellenbach but with question marks behind that threesome."
Of course Strider will join them at some point, but think about how fragile that starting pitching is. There's still going to be health questions around Sale and Lopez, and as good as Schwellenbach looked this year there's no guarantee we know what to expect from him. Scary stuff, because all we have besides that is the dreaded minor league caliber "organizational depth."
Even if we sign a few back end starters, we need a couple guys we can count on to at least be better than our gaggle of minor leaguers.
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Post by PABraveFan on Nov 6, 2024 7:58:15 GMT -5
That would be nice but it’s going to take a lot of money. They are estimating 2/$44M. |
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Post by Fumbduckery on Nov 6, 2024 8:09:52 GMT -5
That would be nice but it’s going to take a lot of money. They are estimating 2/$44M. I saw that. I’m a bit leery that he would settle for a two year deal. I think he’s 35 but still an elite pitcher, I would think he’ll want 3-4 years since this should be his last big money contract. |
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Post by wncbravesfan on Nov 6, 2024 15:39:23 GMT -5
That would be nice but it’s going to take a lot of money. They are estimating 2/$44M. TWO Tommy John surgeries? Makes me plenty nervous. |
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Post by Fumbduckery on Nov 6, 2024 16:23:09 GMT -5
When I look closer at Eovaldi's numbers, he's been pretty much the same as Charlie Morton or close to it the last three years, so I'll pass when it comes to that kind of money.
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