Ive been dying for Orlando to choke up on the bat and just try to get a hit. Maybe I’m crazy but he’s swinging out of his shoes every time he’s in the batters box. On the other hand his defense has been stellar.
You mentioned MLB ignoring ReyLo in pitching leaders. Well. Saw an article about NL MVP & they mentioned now that Betts is hurt it clears the way between Ohtani and Harper! Huh! Oh, then at end they mentioned that Ozuna might be a triple crown winner ho hum! I don’t have to remind you that Ozzie was omitted from top second basemen. I know Ozuna had off field issues but that was a while ago and he deserves some accolades too. I am so tired of the MLB brain trust disrespecting the Bravos.
Hey Jake, could you compare Braves outfielders from last year to the current one. Orlando is not the only problem with this team. It's the entire of team. Except Ozuna, he has been consistent the whole year.
Who are some options for OF bats , some starters that could fill the 5th spot in the rotation or for the future, do we consider getting a bullpen guy??
Arcia is far from the problem. With his gold glove defense he is already exceeding his contract expectations. Braves are not paying the price of a top shortstop, are not giving the prospect capital to acquire one, and there is no one in the minors that can replace his defense so this is a non issue right now.
I agree. The Braves are not in a position to trade prospects for a hot shot shortstop, and they have much bigger fish to fry. Braves will have to deal with Fried and Ozuna soon, and money will have to somewhere in this direction. Furthermore, a middle of the road shortstop on a non wild card team will cost more, and contending teams with an extra decent shortstop to spare will be like unicorns in a forest or a snow cone in the desert. Even if you found such a creature, how much extra production do you think you will get in the remaing 80 some games comparatively? A little higher average, and a few walks for sure but remember even a better team like the 86 Mets got by fine with Rafael Santana!
They won't have to upgrade if the offense keeps going. Arcias glove is valuable If the rest of the team is hitting. If they aren't hitting, the glove argument gets weaker
Ezequiel Tovar > Colorado Rockies!! Not Cheap $9M year signed 7-yr- $63.5M , but locked up until 2030 with '31 option. They might even want to throw in partial salary according to their record!
Arcia is 22nd in all of baseball (8th in SS) in OAA which measures range. Arica is ranked 17th in all of baseball (8th in SS) in defensive rating. Arcia is 26th in fielding run value (8th in SS). He is a top 25 defensive fielder at worst and a top 10 SS. Arcia is somewhere in the 20's in wRC+, wOBA, OPS, SLG, and OBP among SS. He's a glove first player. He is not the linchpin of the offense and isn't counted on to provide anything. If you can get top 25 value for 2m/year, you take that.
For his price, he's a positive WAR player even with the poor offense, and at $2mil a year he's perfectly fine for what they've been paying him. For whatever reason, his hitting against left handed pitching has really suffered this year, and that's what has made him look so bad this year. From 2021 when Arcia came to the Braves through 2023 Arcia produced a 128 wRC+ and .368 xwOBA against left handers, so he was legitly good against them, but this year he's produced a 20 wRC+ and .229 xwOBA which is god awful. His right handed hitting is pretty much the same this year as it always has been.
If you look at both Fangraphs and MLB Pipeline, they now have updated Nacho Alvarez feilding grade to a 55, and MLB had this in to say is his overview "A third baseman at Riverside, the Braves liked how Alvarez’s feet and hands worked, so even though he’s not a runner and has a thicker lower half, they wanted to see how he looked at shortstop. It’s turned out that he’s looked very good, even being mentioned as one of the best defenders in the Minors by executives from other teams.". Doesn't Nacho fit Arcia's mold? Arcia's speed this year is ranked in the 15th percentile, arm in the 68th percentile, while his OAA is ranked in the 92nd percentile, as Arcia's defense is due to his great hands, good instincts, and good arm, not his speed which is equal to Travis d'Arnaud's.
Then again, they should have kept Nicky Lopez, instead of trading half a lineup for Bummer who had the HIGHEST ERA in American League Pitchers last year! Lopez was underrated by the Braves! Great Clubhouse guy!!
Ok so... The last time I commented I talked about Robert Jr. This time I'm going to be a little more realistic. What if AA solves both problems with 1 trade at the deadline? An outfield bat but someone who also has history as a SS... Like Jazz Chisolm. Now hear me out. In a recent poll he was voted MOST OVERRATED player.... So maybe a secretive option. Hes only 26. He's good friends with Acuña Jr. And he's on a team that has said they are selling 100%. Jazz just screams Atlanta to me. He could be platooned with Duvall in LF this year. And could take over at SS next season. We would more than likely give up Nacho, Waldrep, and Darius Vines. If they want more throw in Isaiah Drake as a high risk high reward outfield prospect. Jazz seems like the type of guy AA could work out a team friendly extension with. He also brings superstar type energy like Acuña does. So he would mesh really well. He also fits the description that AA gave in his interview. (A good player that would excite an 11 year old). So the future lineup could look like this: 1. Acuña Jr RF 2. Chisolm Jr SS 3. Riley 3B 4. Olson 1B 5. Ozuna DH 6. Albies 2B 7. Harris II CF 8. Murphy C 9. Kelenic LF 😳 THIS LINEUP IS CRAZY
It might have something to do with Chisholm's -4 DRS, -18.6 UZR/150, and -9 OAA in just 329 innings at short in the majors. We're talking about a quarter to a third of a season worth of playing time there, and has hasn't been very good at all. Plus metricly Chisholm hasn't been particularly great offensively, more average to maybe slightly above average at best, thus giving up on a guy like even Nacho alone (forget you even included Waldrep) you're probably giving up a player with more potential overall than Chisholm.
Maybe give some starts to Short. He was doing a decent job defensively and at least was getting on base consistently before Riley came back. Arcia's defense is still worth his contract, but right now, he is not getting on base at all. Make Arcia compete for his position again. That worked last year.
Ernest from Savannah I wonder some times why the braves have minor league teams when they other than pitchers they hardly ever call up players they would rather have over the hill players like Duvall, Arcia who nobody else would have
Crazy that someone said "the bats will heat up and Arcia will be a plus bat" The guy has a career 78 wRC+. The only time he has ever been a plus bat was his super lucky first half last season. Dude has been garbage since the All-Star game and his childish antics in the postseason made the whole team look bad
I am advat fan of the braves ,except the dodgers,but I'll be damn if y'all place blame on Orlando,Olson, Riley,,dnaaud,kelnic, Duvall,you know where I'm going with this y'all are telling. Blame all them, except Ozuna.
Murphy was great for half a season last year. Contreras is younger and cheaper. I believe the trade was a mistake by AA. It’s ok to admit that not every move by AA is some 4D chess masterstroke, he makes mistakes(Richard Rodriquez).
Do you realize what Sean Murphy has done defensively, is what Contreras has done in almost 4 times the playing time? According to Fangraphs Def, Murphy has a 3.0 Def this year to Contreras's 3.3 Def. That's the whole reason why the Braves got Murphy, due to things like the pitch clock, disengagement attempts, framing, and increase in base stealing. Not only that, Murphy has better hitting metrics, and Murphy outhit Contreras last year 129 wRC+ to 124 wRC+. Richard Rodriguez was a completely different story, as that's the year they made a ban on "sticky stuff" in the middle of the year, and once that happened, we found out quick that Rodriguez's took a massive drop in ball rotation/RPM mid-season once that happened, thus his effectiveness went out the window, and hasn't pitched in the majors since, even though he was a good pitcher for years.
@@MassBoost i love this from Baseball, almost every opinion can be debated with numbers, and numbers kills opinions. So much people talking about Contreras and Murphy without a clue.
@@ZakRoM If you just like him as a player, or you think he has potential to get better, or you think his salary might work better for the team as a whole, then those opinions are fine to have. But the people that say it was a mistake because of certain things that we can see metricly or statically, then that might be different. Just like claiming Rodriguez was a mistake, well he was a mistake after the fact because we never knew he was using sticky stuff. The evidence of that is that his fastball spin rate went from 2573 RPM in the 1st half, to 2322 RPM in the 2nd half, and his slider took a drastic fall from 2468 RPM in the 1st half, to 1982 in the 2nd half once umps started checking, so we now know he was without a doubt using it. It's hard to dispute facts.
I've heard people say silly things like William Contreras was a problem in the clubhouse. I don't recall that ever being reported anywhere other than keyboard warriors online, but I constantly see that narrative being proliferated by felllow Braves fans. I think the Braves had more pressing concerns than trying to upgrade at catcher at the time. 2023 they needed more starting pitching. They settled for Orlando Arcia at SS but felt compelled to upgrade at catcher. The context from Braves fans that offseason was, why are we not improving in areas of actual need? That is the context people apparently don't understand. Would've been nice to leverage Kyle Muller and the money we used on Murphy towards a SS or a starting pitcher. We had Bryce Elder starting a game in October that mattered. Granted, Max Fried's playoff resume isn't good either, Clayton Kershaw-like in October with the exception of game 6 in the WS. Right now Arcia is like Johan Camargo with a really good glove.
Elder was starting a game that matters because Morton got hurt, thus he couldn't pitch that series. So shouldn't the Braves just look for pitchers that don't get hurt instead?
@@justinrampley4834 What does age have to do with not getting hurt? Jamie Moyer is an excellent example of a pitcher who was 41 years old and didn't get hurt. Usually effectiveness the reason why most pitchers aren't 40+ and still pitching.
@@MassBoost Do we think that Jamie Moyer was putting the same amount of stress on his arm as Charlie Morton is? Morton isn't a "Maddux-type". Moyer was throwing 80 mph fastballs, obviously that isn't very stressful.
@@justinrampley4834 Ok, then Nolan Ryan who pitched till he was 46, or even Randy Johnson who pitched till he was 45, or even Roger Clemens who pitched till he was 44, and all 3 threw just as hard if not harder than Morton.
It's the same people complaining about Arcia...that would have traded Ozuna last year if it was up to them. The trade that needs to be made.... is with LA... we will send you MO, you send us FF. Watch AA get laughed out of CA. What a fiasco!
Ozuna was sheltered by his contract. Nobody wanted him when he was struggling because of his cost, and Braves didn't have a choice but to hang on to him. They would've gotten rid of him had his contract not been prohibitive to doing so. Ozuna makes 8 times what Arcia does. I don't think he was retained because they thought he'd "figure it out". Nevertheless, it ended up being good for most of 2023 and now 2024.
@@MassBoost Only if someone like the Dodgers want another arm short-term with Ohtani out, kinda like Scherzer in 2021. It seems like they do crap like that all the time. Not sure what they would give the Braves though. It seems like a bad year for the Braves to be "all-in" with the current roster honestly, since they are losing Fried to Free Agency anyhow.
@@justinrampley4834 The point isn't that Dodgers may or may not want him, it's that the Braves would never get rid of him. What reasons would the Braves have to getting rid of him? They're 10 games over 500, and only 2 other teams are even over 500 that aren't division leaders, the Padres and the Cardinals, and both are only 1 game over 500,
@@MassBoost That's cool dude. Freddie and Dansby walked too and the Braves got nothing in return. Fried will be the next example. The Braves are running out of prospect capital to improve the team should Smith-Schawver, Schwellenbach, and Waldrep not pan out. They had to give up prospects in trades to land Olson and Murphy. Braves only do team friendly deals unless your name is Austin Riley, and it could hurt them pretty soon.
@@justinrampley4834 That's not true, Braves got Blake Burkhalter from the Comp pick from the Dodgers, and the Braves got Cade Kuehler from the Comp pick from the Cubs. Burkhalter is taking the Spencer Strider and Spencer Schwellenbach path of a reliever converting into a starter after missing all of last year due to Tommy John. Kuehler has performed excellent since being drafted last year, and I think Jake is fairly high on him. As far as the Olson trade, who's performing at a great level out of Shea Langeliers. Cristian Pache, Ryan Cusick, and Joey Estes?
Here is my take. We need a SS period Arica is horrific. We need to go after an OF with lots of postseason experience and leadership to tell players they suck. I look at Tommy Pham, Jesse Winker could be a nice offensive upgrade but they need something. KELENIC is about to break out and I’m all in for it
@@MassBoost the fact that you feel the need to go under every single person's comment that you don't agree with to try to ruin it shows that you have no life and get off on ruining other people's thoughts on something. Genuinely fuck off. If you aren't the creator your input isn't needed
100% this episode leads to a huge game for Arcia tomorrow 😂
If that's all it takes we're gonna need Jake to be a lot more negative than is his nature.
"It's Orlando Arcia's job for the season." I like to hear that. 😊
Ive been dying for Orlando to choke up on the bat and just try to get a hit. Maybe I’m crazy but he’s swinging out of his shoes every time he’s in the batters box. On the other hand his defense has been stellar.
You mentioned MLB ignoring ReyLo in pitching leaders. Well. Saw an article about NL MVP & they mentioned now that Betts is hurt it clears the way between Ohtani and Harper! Huh! Oh, then at end they mentioned that Ozuna might be a triple crown winner ho hum! I don’t have to remind you that Ozzie was omitted from top second basemen. I know Ozuna had off field issues but that was a while ago and he deserves some accolades too. I am so tired of the MLB brain trust disrespecting the Bravos.
Hey Jake, could you compare Braves outfielders from last year to the current one. Orlando is not the only problem with this team. It's the entire of team. Except Ozuna, he has been consistent the whole year.
what?? when Riley was immensely struggling at the plate, were we demanding for a 3rd baseman change?
Who are some options for OF bats , some starters that could fill the 5th spot in the rotation or for the future, do we consider getting a bullpen guy??
Braves fans screaming to pull up a prospect before they are ready. A storied tradition.
I'm predicting an Arcia hitting surge come July. Just looks like he's swinging at everything right now. Enjoy your vacation Jake!
Arcia is far from the problem. With his gold glove defense he is already exceeding his contract expectations. Braves are not paying the price of a top shortstop, are not giving the prospect capital to acquire one, and there is no one in the minors that can replace his defense so this is a non issue right now.
Yep he's providing positive value, and at $2mil if he's just a 1 WAR player this year, he's giving the team positive value at his price range.
I agree. The Braves are not in a position to trade prospects for a hot shot shortstop, and they have much bigger fish to fry. Braves will have to deal with Fried and Ozuna soon, and money will have to somewhere in this direction. Furthermore, a middle of the road shortstop on a non wild card team will cost more, and contending teams with an extra decent shortstop to spare will be like unicorns in a forest or a snow cone in the desert. Even if you found such a creature, how much extra production do you think you will get in the remaing 80 some games comparatively? A little higher average, and a few walks for sure but remember even a better team like the 86 Mets got by fine with Rafael Santana!
@@everettkalafatis6106 Ozuna does have a $16mil option for next year.
Get Furcal to come out of retirement. I’m sure he has one more season in him.
They won't have to upgrade if the offense keeps going. Arcias glove is valuable If the rest of the team is hitting. If they aren't hitting, the glove argument gets weaker
This
Possible that Nacho could come up?
Yes
Man what happened to Spencer Torkelson
What about Tyler O’Neill?
Ezequiel Tovar > Colorado Rockies!! Not Cheap $9M year signed 7-yr- $63.5M , but locked up until 2030 with '31 option. They might even want to throw in partial salary according to their record!
Arcia is 22nd in all of baseball (8th in SS) in OAA which measures range. Arica is ranked 17th in all of baseball (8th in SS) in defensive rating. Arcia is 26th in fielding run value (8th in SS). He is a top 25 defensive fielder at worst and a top 10 SS.
Arcia is somewhere in the 20's in wRC+, wOBA, OPS, SLG, and OBP among SS. He's a glove first player. He is not the linchpin of the offense and isn't counted on to provide anything. If you can get top 25 value for 2m/year, you take that.
For his price, he's a positive WAR player even with the poor offense, and at $2mil a year he's perfectly fine for what they've been paying him. For whatever reason, his hitting against left handed pitching has really suffered this year, and that's what has made him look so bad this year. From 2021 when Arcia came to the Braves through 2023 Arcia produced a 128 wRC+ and .368 xwOBA against left handers, so he was legitly good against them, but this year he's produced a 20 wRC+ and .229 xwOBA which is god awful. His right handed hitting is pretty much the same this year as it always has been.
If you look at both Fangraphs and MLB Pipeline, they now have updated Nacho Alvarez feilding grade to a 55, and MLB had this in to say is his overview "A third baseman at Riverside, the Braves liked how Alvarez’s feet and hands worked, so even though he’s not a runner and has a thicker lower half, they wanted to see how he looked at shortstop. It’s turned out that he’s looked very good, even being mentioned as one of the best defenders in the Minors by executives from other teams.". Doesn't Nacho fit Arcia's mold? Arcia's speed this year is ranked in the 15th percentile, arm in the 68th percentile, while his OAA is ranked in the 92nd percentile, as Arcia's defense is due to his great hands, good instincts, and good arm, not his speed which is equal to Travis d'Arnaud's.
Then again, they should have kept Nicky Lopez, instead of trading half a lineup for Bummer who had the HIGHEST ERA in American League Pitchers last year! Lopez was underrated by the Braves! Great Clubhouse guy!!
Im a die hard braves fan wears acuna i dont have cable
Ok so... The last time I commented I talked about Robert Jr. This time I'm going to be a little more realistic. What if AA solves both problems with 1 trade at the deadline? An outfield bat but someone who also has history as a SS... Like Jazz Chisolm. Now hear me out. In a recent poll he was voted MOST OVERRATED player.... So maybe a secretive option. Hes only 26. He's good friends with Acuña Jr. And he's on a team that has said they are selling 100%. Jazz just screams Atlanta to me. He could be platooned with Duvall in LF this year. And could take over at SS next season. We would more than likely give up Nacho, Waldrep, and Darius Vines. If they want more throw in Isaiah Drake as a high risk high reward outfield prospect. Jazz seems like the type of guy AA could work out a team friendly extension with. He also brings superstar type energy like Acuña does. So he would mesh really well. He also fits the description that AA gave in his interview. (A good player that would excite an 11 year old). So the future lineup could look like this:
1. Acuña Jr RF
2. Chisolm Jr SS
3. Riley 3B
4. Olson 1B
5. Ozuna DH
6. Albies 2B
7. Harris II CF
8. Murphy C
9. Kelenic LF
😳 THIS LINEUP IS CRAZY
It might have something to do with Chisholm's -4 DRS, -18.6 UZR/150, and -9 OAA in just 329 innings at short in the majors. We're talking about a quarter to a third of a season worth of playing time there, and has hasn't been very good at all. Plus metricly Chisholm hasn't been particularly great offensively, more average to maybe slightly above average at best, thus giving up on a guy like even Nacho alone (forget you even included Waldrep) you're probably giving up a player with more potential overall than Chisholm.
Waldrep alone is too much for Jazz. Dudes also a cancer in the locker room much like Robert Jr.
@@matthewmcgrandy7641 and where is your evidence of Jazz being "a cancer" in the clubhouse?
Maybe give some starts to Short. He was doing a decent job defensively and at least was getting on base consistently before Riley came back. Arcia's defense is still worth his contract, but right now, he is not getting on base at all.
Make Arcia compete for his position again. That worked last year.
I will say the one thing that Zach Short does well, is take walks, thus is OBP isn't terrible right now considering his batting average.
Every day
Upgrade? Arcia is a stud at SS...
NACHO! NACHO!
Ernest from Savannah I wonder some times why the braves have minor league teams when they other than pitchers they hardly ever call up players they would rather have over the hill players like Duvall, Arcia who nobody else would have
if the only players you can get is Peterson, Pillar and others stick with Wall, Frankin who everybody wants try them
Now arcia will explode against the Yankees and then they'll start saying things like we can't get rid of arcia. Smh
Crazy that someone said "the bats will heat up and Arcia will be a plus bat"
The guy has a career 78 wRC+. The only time he has ever been a plus bat was his super lucky first half last season. Dude has been garbage since the All-Star game and his childish antics in the postseason made the whole team look bad
How was his first season super lucky?
@@MassBoost Do you mean first half?
Mar/Apr BABIP: .394
May: .356
June: .343
Compare that to
August: .227
Sep/Oct: .247
Hey Jake, we need to fix our entire of our outfielders. Arcia could ve our 9 hitter .unfortunately, this team is not good at all.
Why would the Braves need to fix their entire outfield?
I am advat fan of the braves ,except the dodgers,but I'll be damn if y'all place blame on Orlando,Olson, Riley,,dnaaud,kelnic, Duvall,you know where I'm going with this y'all are telling. Blame all them, except Ozuna.
Murphy was great for half a season last year. Contreras is younger and cheaper. I believe the trade was a mistake by AA. It’s ok to admit that not every move by AA is some 4D chess masterstroke, he makes mistakes(Richard Rodriquez).
Do you realize what Sean Murphy has done defensively, is what Contreras has done in almost 4 times the playing time? According to Fangraphs Def, Murphy has a 3.0 Def this year to Contreras's 3.3 Def. That's the whole reason why the Braves got Murphy, due to things like the pitch clock, disengagement attempts, framing, and increase in base stealing. Not only that, Murphy has better hitting metrics, and Murphy outhit Contreras last year 129 wRC+ to 124 wRC+. Richard Rodriguez was a completely different story, as that's the year they made a ban on "sticky stuff" in the middle of the year, and once that happened, we found out quick that Rodriguez's took a massive drop in ball rotation/RPM mid-season once that happened, thus his effectiveness went out the window, and hasn't pitched in the majors since, even though he was a good pitcher for years.
@@MassBoost i love this from Baseball, almost every opinion can be debated with numbers, and numbers kills opinions. So much people talking about Contreras and Murphy without a clue.
@@ZakRoM If you just like him as a player, or you think he has potential to get better, or you think his salary might work better for the team as a whole, then those opinions are fine to have. But the people that say it was a mistake because of certain things that we can see metricly or statically, then that might be different. Just like claiming Rodriguez was a mistake, well he was a mistake after the fact because we never knew he was using sticky stuff. The evidence of that is that his fastball spin rate went from 2573 RPM in the 1st half, to 2322 RPM in the 2nd half, and his slider took a drastic fall from 2468 RPM in the 1st half, to 1982 in the 2nd half once umps started checking, so we now know he was without a doubt using it. It's hard to dispute facts.
I've heard people say silly things like William Contreras was a problem in the clubhouse. I don't recall that ever being reported anywhere other than keyboard warriors online, but I constantly see that narrative being proliferated by felllow Braves fans. I think the Braves had more pressing concerns than trying to upgrade at catcher at the time. 2023 they needed more starting pitching. They settled for Orlando Arcia at SS but felt compelled to upgrade at catcher. The context from Braves fans that offseason was, why are we not improving in areas of actual need? That is the context people apparently don't understand. Would've been nice to leverage Kyle Muller and the money we used on Murphy towards a SS or a starting pitcher. We had Bryce Elder starting a game in October that mattered. Granted, Max Fried's playoff resume isn't good either, Clayton Kershaw-like in October with the exception of game 6 in the WS. Right now Arcia is like Johan Camargo with a really good glove.
Elder was starting a game that matters because Morton got hurt, thus he couldn't pitch that series. So shouldn't the Braves just look for pitchers that don't get hurt instead?
@@MassBoost Maybe not 41-year-old pitchers. What percentage of MLB pitchers are 40+?
@@justinrampley4834 What does age have to do with not getting hurt? Jamie Moyer is an excellent example of a pitcher who was 41 years old and didn't get hurt. Usually effectiveness the reason why most pitchers aren't 40+ and still pitching.
@@MassBoost Do we think that Jamie Moyer was putting the same amount of stress on his arm as Charlie Morton is? Morton isn't a "Maddux-type". Moyer was throwing 80 mph fastballs, obviously that isn't very stressful.
@@justinrampley4834 Ok, then Nolan Ryan who pitched till he was 46, or even Randy Johnson who pitched till he was 45, or even Roger Clemens who pitched till he was 44, and all 3 threw just as hard if not harder than Morton.
It's the same people complaining about Arcia...that would have traded Ozuna last year if it was up to them. The trade that needs to be made.... is with LA... we will send you MO, you send us FF. Watch AA get laughed out of CA. What a fiasco!
Ozuna was sheltered by his contract. Nobody wanted him when he was struggling because of his cost, and Braves didn't have a choice but to hang on to him. They would've gotten rid of him had his contract not been prohibitive to doing so. Ozuna makes 8 times what Arcia does. I don't think he was retained because they thought he'd "figure it out". Nevertheless, it ended up being good for most of 2023 and now 2024.
@@justinrampley4834 ok... makes sense frl.
Arcia is only good off the bench. That's it. I think we need to put a package together that includes Max fried and arcia for De La Cruz
Braves aren't getting rid of Fried, it makes very little sense.
@@MassBoost Only if someone like the Dodgers want another arm short-term with Ohtani out, kinda like Scherzer in 2021. It seems like they do crap like that all the time. Not sure what they would give the Braves though. It seems like a bad year for the Braves to be "all-in" with the current roster honestly, since they are losing Fried to Free Agency anyhow.
@@justinrampley4834 The point isn't that Dodgers may or may not want him, it's that the Braves would never get rid of him. What reasons would the Braves have to getting rid of him? They're 10 games over 500, and only 2 other teams are even over 500 that aren't division leaders, the Padres and the Cardinals, and both are only 1 game over 500,
@@MassBoost That's cool dude. Freddie and Dansby walked too and the Braves got nothing in return. Fried will be the next example. The Braves are running out of prospect capital to improve the team should Smith-Schawver, Schwellenbach, and Waldrep not pan out. They had to give up prospects in trades to land Olson and Murphy. Braves only do team friendly deals unless your name is Austin Riley, and it could hurt them pretty soon.
@@justinrampley4834 That's not true, Braves got Blake Burkhalter from the Comp pick from the Dodgers, and the Braves got Cade Kuehler from the Comp pick from the Cubs. Burkhalter is taking the Spencer Strider and Spencer Schwellenbach path of a reliever converting into a starter after missing all of last year due to Tommy John. Kuehler has performed excellent since being drafted last year, and I think Jake is fairly high on him. As far as the Olson trade, who's performing at a great level out of Shea Langeliers. Cristian Pache, Ryan Cusick, and Joey Estes?
Here is my take. We need a SS period Arica is horrific. We need to go after an OF with lots of postseason experience and leadership to tell players they suck. I look at Tommy Pham, Jesse Winker could be a nice offensive upgrade but they need something. KELENIC is about to break out and I’m all in for it
Tommy Pham basically said that Ozzie Albies sucks on Instagram due to Ozzie signing his contract extension. Is that what you mean?
@@MassBoost the fact that you feel the need to go under every single person's comment that you don't agree with to try to ruin it shows that you have no life and get off on ruining other people's thoughts on something. Genuinely fuck off. If you aren't the creator your input isn't needed
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