re: Braves trade Wood, Peraza for Olivera +, UPDATE: Teheran could be traded too

OH NO!! He said I looked immature wearing a backwards hat! Anyways, back to baseball. Does anyone know of any timeline for this deal to be done? I mean, I would assume this has to get done in time for the Dodgers to flip their returning pieces into a run for Price.

I expect it to be done soon. Only thing holding it up is a review of Olivera's medical records.

Out with hamstring. Elbow is concern though.

Has there been any further rumblings regarding the rumored Teheran trade? I've been scouring twitter looking for leads, but haven't seen anything.

Edit: Per Doug O'Brien the Astros are very interested in Teheran after missing out on Hamels.

I think most believe he is not the same anymore and is ready for a surgery.

Alright,it's the morning after, time to reasonably discuss this deal. As I told Okie via text last night (we text every night, we are seriously like bffs,one doesn't drink, the other doesn't smoke, the Abbot and Castillo of the ATL thread). Hart and Cop have ten times the information that we have access to. They know more than us.

Clearly, they do not see Wood as part of the rotation in 2017. I mentioned to Castillo last night that his delivery does bring injury concerns. And he has lost over 2 mph on his fastball this year. His advanced stats aren't as good as they have been in the past.
Peraza is young and unproven. If we thought he was as good as most on this board do, he would have been up. Kid is getting on base at a .319 clip despite hitting .295. That is a disturbing sign.

Johnson and luis? Who cares, they were getting shipped off tomorrow anyway.

Olivera is the crown jewel here. The Braves really coveted him this last off-season and bid over 40 mil for his services. They are going to get him for 5.5 years at 31.5 mill. Rio ruiz hasn't really panned out as we had hoped. We don't have our 3b of the future in our system right now.

Paco has been on of the better relievers in the league since his call up in 2012.

Bird is a live arm who approaches triple digits, always willing to gamble on those.

The wildcard here is the draft pick. Adding 1.8 mil to our bonus pool is huge and shouldn't be understated.

Overall, think this is a fair trade. I am willing to give Hart the benefit of the doubt after all his work thus far.

I felt the same way this morning. If Olivera is who they think he is, then that will be a big piece for us over the next 5 years.

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Overall, think this is a fair trade. I am willing to give Hart the benefit of the doubt after all his work thus far.

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31 done lost his mind. I think it's fair to say that we can see the reasoning behind the deal because it's true. We needed a 3rd baseman in a bad way and we certainly paid for it. But that doesn't mean you diminish the value of what was given away. You say Peraza is unproven but so is Olivera. His power may not be there at the big league and if it's not, there's a big issue.

I can see why Hart did it, but that doesn't mean he didn't desperately overpay.

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Clearly, they do not see Wood as part of the rotation in 2017. I mentioned to Castillo last night that his delivery does bring injury concerns. And he has lost over 2 mph on his fastball this year. His advanced stats aren't as good as they have been in the past.

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Regardless of what you think might happen to Wood down the line healthwise, you don't make trades based on a hypothesis, you make trades based on what the player is worth right now. And right now Wood is a low end #2/high end #3 start under team control through the 2019 season.

I have no issues moving Wood or Julio, both have poor deliveries that will likely lead to injury issues down the line. But you don't undersell their value big time just because you think they may get hurt down the line.