Olney Rumor Bag: Eckstein, Teixeira

Man Ricardi will probably ask the world for Eckstein. Just trying to get something going to save his job. Eckstein at best is worth a high A class prospect.

Teixeira is a free agent after this season, not next season.

G, i hope you are talking about the league and not the prospect classification. I would give a good reliever at most for eckstein

ha ha you would give a good reliever for eckstein....that is something that made me laugh. Thank you for making me laugh.

Eckstein is worth a PTBNL at best and probably is worth more along the lines of cash considerations.

Hey, rip on the X factor all you want, just acknowledge one fact - he's going to be at least a type B free agent, and has a shot at being a type A. That means he's bringing back a minimum of a compensatory pick, so to say his value now is a PTBNL "at best" is ridiculous.

Its funny how much crap people talk about Eckstein, given that he has had a much more successful MLB career than many "can't miss" Billy Beane fat-bodied catchers. Not every player on the team is going to be Rickey Henderson or Barry Bonds. Eckstein has his limitations but also has a place on a good team, and has 2 WS rings to prove it.

Who in the Braves organization cares one bit about whether Tex wants to be traded or not?

Look, if you want the guy offer him a competitive deal now. If he doesn't agree to it let him know that you plan on shopping him. Tex's preference should have ZERO bearing on what the organization does.

The Braves need to do what's best for the Braves. It's not like Tex is going to care if the Braves maximize his value. Tex has always made looking after himself his top priority. I don't see why the Braves shouldn't be doing the same thing.

Bjguess....

I could not agree more. Tex just gives up the aura him and Boras were made for each other because all he wants is what is best for him. On numerous occasions, he has displayed that he feels absolutely no allegience to the braves organization. His preference is to put himself in the best position to make money, and if that also means that he put his team in a good position to be competitve, then that is just a nice plus to keep everybody happy. I like Tex as a player, just wish he would back off his stance of having allegience only to Boras and giving off indication after indication that all he really cares about is a hefty payday. Heh, he has the talent to deserve a big payday, so whatever floats his boat. But since he obviously only shows loyalty to his well-being, the braves should only show loyalty to the future well being of the organization, and trade him off for a bounty of young players in areas of need.

The best thing for the braves to do is to trade him off. We are not going to have the money to resign him at the price he wants, and simply put, with a lot of much cheaper productive first base options, i sincerely do not think Tex will be worth 22 million to the braves for the next seven years, when we can find a much cheaper option who can be productive.

The braves gave up too much last year for Tex. Now, Tex himself has done what we needed from him and thensome in terms of his individual contribution, so his addition was needed. However, I think that it was not needed for the price we gave up, simply because we needed to use those prospects to get 2 or 3 players to fill multiple holes instead of just one more dominant slugger who we would have for one full season. Therefore, while Tex has been awesome, the overall status of the Braves has not really changed that much at all from where we were before we got tex. However, at that time we had the resources in terms of prospects to get the peices we needed to be competitve. If we trade off tex for three or four prospects, I think we again will be in the position we were in before we got Tex, with a very good farm system that makes our future look bright with players who will play for the braves, and with players who can be used to get needed pieces to make the braves strong in every facet of the game.

I'll bet that Tex is going to seriously regret not signing that offer by the Rangers. Does anyone really consider him an elite hitting talent? A 300 BA and 30 HR's is nice but nothing special.

"Hey, rip on the X factor all you want, just acknowledge one fact - he's going to be at least a type B free agent, and has a shot at being a type A. That means he's bringing back a minimum of a compensatory pick, so to say his value now is a PTBNL "at best" is ridiculous."

31 David Eckstein 60.44 B

He barely made B last year, but now he has a chance of being a type A free agent?

Is that better or worse than the chance that people finally realize David Eckstein is an overrated p.o.s.?