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re: The ATL Thread: Offseason Edition
Posted on 12/9/10 at 9:15 am to SwampDonks
Posted on 12/9/10 at 9:15 am to SwampDonks
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No moves have been made yet with KK
He has no trade rights relative to Japan. He turned down the chance to go home to prove he belongs in the bigs.
Several Japanese teams were willing to take him and pay about 50% of his contract. Now we are reduced to finding a ML team to take him and we'll get stuck with about $5-$6MM. I would think many teams could use a 5th starter for about $1.5MM.
There aren't going to trade Minor, the only lefty with starting possibility.
I would love to have Ellsbury but I don't think they can work it into the lineup and budget. What do you do with McLouth - he's too expensive to trade. What we've got to hope for is a resurgent Schafer creates competition with McLouth in spring training. Maybe the added competition at the position will force McLouth to improve and one of the two emerges as a solid CF starter.
My biggest concern is with moving Prado to LF. I think he'll do great there. But, my fear is that either or both of Chipper struggles to return or is re-injured and/or Freeman struggles in his first real big league action. Now you have to move Prado to 3B or 1B. There is no real way to plan for that in the budget via offseason moves. At that point, you'd have to trade away some young arms (JJ, Beachy NOT Teheran or Delgado) for a solid LF. But you can't go out and buy that in the offseason and have an expensive piece sitting behind Prado in case Chip or Freeman struggle.
Posted on 12/9/10 at 9:38 am to TheFranchise
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I would love to have Ellsbury but I don't think they can work it into the lineup and budget.
Ellsbury is going to make dogshit this year, especially after being hurt all of last year.
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What do you do with McLouth - he's too expensive to trade.
Bite the bullett and just let him be the fourth OF. When Chip can't go you'll have a very serviceable fourth OF to put out there. Yeah sure you have Schafer there to help make the competition tough on Nate but I've given up on both of them. I probably shouldn't have, especially Schafter, but he's been struggling for too long now. Getting off steroids and all those linging injuries have ruined him.
Braves will end up going for an OF either now or at the trade deadline, why not now?
I don't think they'll get Ellsbury or try too hard, especially with him being a LH. But if they don't even call about him today which I'm sure they will just to check in, then that would be really really stupid
This post was edited on 12/9/10 at 9:44 am
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