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johnsilver
Kurcz keeps getting undervalued at a time teams look for hard throwing guys in the BP. He missed a full season of development and won’t turn 25 until August, throws mid 90’s w/a decent slider?
Bad enough Boston gave him away and Atlanta didn’t even have him for 3 months? A guy who has yet to put up 1 mediocre season, much less a poor one? Gone for a 160k slot? Beane spots the ludicrousness of this it seems.
A'sfaninUK
Its like Beane looks at Boston’s farm, subtracts all the top 10 prospects, and then feasts on the exposed/available/ones they gave up on.
johnsilver
2y ago, Cherrington left Josh Fields exposed in the Rule 5 draft and he was the 1st guy taken by Houston. Now he’s one of the vital guys in that pen, throwing mid-upper 90’s. This past winter they left Jason Garcia exposed, who sits mid 90’s and touches 100. houston took him as well, then traded him to Baltimore, who seem inclined to hang onto him.
Then they left Kurcz off the 40 man, whom I figured would get swiped in the draft, tho maybe with only half a season coming back from TJ in 2014? It was a reach.. Still.. Giving away.. Waving goodbye to an organization of young power arms, while bringing in the Craig breslow’s and varvaro’s of the world to fail seems like a recipe for continued disaster to me, then giving away Alex Wilson over the winter also as a throw in with the Porcello deal.
Cherrington has no clue on bullpen building, or Farrell is feeding him bad advice. Somewhere, something is going wrong. No additions, other than Ogando have gone close to right.
double
The Braves have given up 5 players for $1.3 million. Sounds like a lot.
rsquared31
Remember when Salcedo was the next Chipper at age 16? i guess we will know something in 3-4 years on them
undocorkscrew
The only one I’m upset about is Paroubeck. He was one of the VERY few players in their system with any sort of power potential.
arc89
Beane is collecting bullpen arms. He didn’t do it in the off season now they are stuck with a bad bullpen.