Good deal, like I said before: "I guess Loup would be the new Justin Wilson. I liked Wilson, and I still kind of hope they bring him back along with Loup because even though they are both lefties, those are two completely different arm angles."
And lolmetsforever, if you reply to this, your mom's a hoe.
Yeah, going cheap. Give me a break, Braves had an opening day payroll last year of around $155mil. Cheap teams don't have payrolls that big, get a clue for once.
They pay taxes in Canadian dollars while getting paid American dollars, I cant' imagine the taxes are the same as they were 10-20 years ago. The Canadian Dollar is at 0.78 to the American one.
Gallo is horrible, a .208 career hitter with the 2nd highest strikeout rate in the majors since 2015 at 37.6%. I'd be surprised if anyone would ever give much for him.
Once the Yankees decided to go back to reclamation projects which is Cashman's specialty like Nathan Eovaldi & James Paxton due to high end ceiling but injury prone you knew Cashman once again will tab into the "Potential" basis again with Kluber & Taillion to now form the best starting pitching rotation aside of Cole as the "Mash Unit with Potential".
Now Cashman simply traded in Otto for O'Day & eventually Gardner again not surprised at all by Cashman's moves O'Day is more reliable than Otto but I still feel the Yankees dropped the ball they could have traded Voit or Gio should have moved Gleybar to Second Base while moving DJ to First Base and letting him play some 2nd & 3rd base in the meantime while they could have landed Lindor & Carrasco or the Yankees should have asked the Cubs for Bryant & Hendriks selling high on Gio and others while they could.
Cashman can build good bullpens but he is horrible on Starting Pitching and is way too loyal on some players aka Gardner or won't admit horrible Signings Stanton, Hicks right now to just name a few and rather than try with Hicks say to seek a trade and eat most of his contract he will run out identical situation in the Outfield and all out "Mash Unit" .
He wont give Red Thunder a boost of confidence yet continues to makes this Yankee team an older team which will lead to more question marks than answers.
Farhan took on one of the worst situations of any team in the majors: a bloated payroll, aging veterans, and a putrid farm system and has done a stellar job in uniquely approaching the problems and addressing them.
People are certainly welcome to their own opinion, but it's a bizarre thing that fans dislike what Zaidi is doing, as these were the same nitwits who complained that Evans went and got past-their-prime veterans a few years ago.
Agreed, Until the Jays address SP they are fighting for 3rd with Boston. Red Sox adding Richards and E-Rod (and Sale later in the year), plus Kiki, they have upgrade starting pitching more than the Jays have. In fact, Richards and E-Rod are arguably better than Robbie Ray.
Would love TM... a move between the O’s and Braves for TM makes a ton of sense. Higher risk move for the Braves though. Just don’t know with his health / covid if he’s even gonna come back in a shell of his 2019 self
Really hoped he’d come back to Atlanta. Backend bullpen guys always get the love, but O’Day was a huge part of the Braves last year, especially considering their starting pitching woes. Did his job, got outs, and provided a nice veteran presence in the clubhouse.
I don’t think these are as far off as you’re making it to be, but overall I do agree, that I don’t see any of these happening. If I was Braves mgmt, I don’t want Gallo at all ... especially if that involves trade Riley for him. I feel like that would be trading young Gallo for older Gallo. I’d rather take the risk of developing Riley than taking on Gallo, which lets be honest. is completely overrated. Now some of your other options, are more interesting.
While I agree with DMC, I don't think McGriff thinks Duvall is the answer. I think he doesn't expect the Braves to pick up anyone better so might as well sign Duvall back before he's lost as well.
I also think it's a little premature but it's easy to start getting concerned as we watch all these bats fly off the market while we sit and wonder if AA will pull the trigger on the bat the Braves need in the middle of their line up. The only caveat to that is whether AA has a sufficient payroll available to him to bring back Marcella Ozuna.
I always thought Theo was their top target and was surprised that they even hired a general manager to begin with, knowing it would prevent them from hiring Theo next winter.
Obviously, scandalous circumstances led to a mulligan, so I’m not surprised that they’re essentially going to let Alderson run the show for a year before making Theo an offer he can’t refuse.
I guess Loup would be the new Justin Wilson. I liked Wilson, and I still kind of hope they bring him back along with Loup because even though they are both lefties, those are two completely different arm angles.
Theo won’t take a job as GM. He will be president of baseball ops while Sandy does what he was hired to do in the first place. President of organization
Yea only signing Duvall would be a huge downgrade. Honestly Braves and Orioles should do everything possible to make a deal with TM. It just makes a lot of sense for both teams. But we need something much better than Duvall at the plate
Taijuan Walker-I'd be interested, but had a 4.56 FIP last year
Jake Odorizzi-I like Odorizzi, but MLB-R was predicting $39M/3. Given that he was hurt last year, that feels rich
Brett Anderson-Solid arm, but he has 2 seasons in the past 10 years in shich he's thrown than 83 innings. I don't think anyone is more injured than him.
Julio Teheran-Underrated, imo. Poor peripherals, but generally runs a 3.80-4.00 ERA with a very dependable innings average. He was my #2 choice after Richards. My guess is the RS chose Richards because his 2020 was much, much better.
the padres are built to try and buy a title in a short period of time. They will fail, just like they have done in the entirety of their franchise history.
O'Day is actually an extreme flyball pitcher (one of the lowest GB% for over a decade) who throws a ton up in the zone, he's just really hard to hit because his delivery and stuff are good.
A lot of these sidearm guys are incredibly hard to hit if they only have to pitch an inning.
It's a light-hearted joke with a bit of history on MLBTR. Red Sox fans hyped Swihart as a prospect so that he became known in the MLBTR comments section, facetiously, as a "lock for the HOF." We're not making fun of Swihart so much as we are having fun somewhat at the expense of the Sox fans who hyped him. (Same thing with Rob Refsynder and Yankee fans.)
I like your attitude for sure! I think that if they thought they were a Bauer away from winning it all they would be all in. I think the evaluation is that Bauer is not a difference maker. We have an ace in Severino ready to join the rotation. Bold prediction--Severino out pitches Bauer this year.
I'd always rather take an equal quality free agent if possible. But I doubt they'd be giving up any decent prospects. They'd be trading one of the outfielders or Tellez, and/or taking on a contract the other team wants to offload. Might even get prospects in the deal, like the Liriano trade.
This guy is the victims of being too highly touted plenty of MLB catchers or payers with average to below average defense and less than a .243 career average seem to make it and stay in MLB rosters every year but he’s considered a failure only because of the prospect hype
As a Braves fan it's maddening to me they let him go at the paltry salary he was making. Add to that Greene and Melancon were already FA. The pen has yet to be addressed and they still don't have a clean up hitter. Smh. But hey, we have Smyly for 11m! ::sigh::
This is a shrewd move by the Yanks, though. He'll help.
They’re excellent at extracting the most value out of most of their FA. Many teams would make a trade (like Ottavino deal) for Ender Inciarte if attached with a prospect. His contract stinks, but far from the..stinkiest.
I can only hope my Tigers are taking notes! Spread the wealth throughout the diamond not just the 1 percenters.
Play to win the division.. if you can catch fire in October GREAT! You cannot and won’t successfully out spend the top tier! But most importantly, never-ever, sell the farm. Trust the process draft-develop. We would gladly take Anthopoulos and co, Antonetti, and Neander!!
check his numbers vs LH hitters. While has mostly limited contact to both RH and LH batters, when lefties make contact.. It's far& deep.
Good situational reliever from the O's, but reason more games than innings throughout his career.. Used mainly vs RH hitters so that sweeping, almost underhanded arm action can be avoided by LH hitter's.
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Could be, but this feels like something that would have already happened if it was going to happen. I'm also not convinced that Rios is the future. He's still very much a work in progress, and given his age, is close to running out of time.
It's worked out pretty good for them the last few years.
Every year they are expected to finish 2nd or third in the division and they win it most every year.
Ugh, it's as bad as the NL East with the 1996 and 1999 World Series losses to the Yankmes. I respect the NYY franchise, however they became a WS rival for me decades ago.
While I don’t like throwing loads of cash against the wall to win a title. Knowing they are in win now mode; screw the luxury tax for a few years and sign Bauer. Go all in once and for all and stop nickel and diming the rotation.
A lot of these odd contracts following 2020 could be mutually beneficial. If MLB doesn't fully recover economically before 2022, the players may very well want to re-enter free agency for 2022. When the revenues are back up, they may be able capitalize on better agreements. This one definitely makes sense on both sides. O'Day had plenty of suitors and the timing likely impaired his earning potential.
Nice signing. I was disappointed ATL chose to let him walk on his option. It was likely due to our Liberty Media ownership being publicly traded and the Braves attempting to stay within hard salary, spending, and earnings limits.
While it's a laudable signing for the Yankmes, I regret O'Day landing with them as much as I would if he went to another team in the NL East. 1996 and 1999 World Series still sours my beers...
Except the Ricketts family has revitalized wrigley and it’s surrounding areas. They have been top 5-10 in payroll for the last couple of seasons. Yes, i’ll take the title in 2016. The allocation of resources has been horrendous on Theo’s (and Jed’s) part. They have spent $$ on average returns. They have had 3 positive signings (2 were huge $) Zobrist, Lester, Yu. The rest have been bad. Quit blaming the rickett’s for being “cheap” as that is a falsehood. The cubs have bet on a lot of guys. These same players havent really improved. Addison russell (gone), KB, schwarber, heyward, etc. javy was great and then last season he was worst qualified mlb’er in terms of offensive output. Look at other teams in the league with big resources. They dont just simply trade “blocked” guys for the hell of it. Organizational depth is a big reason teams like the cardinals, rays, athletics stay relevant.
I would have been happy with Scott getting the job in the first place (not to retroactively say I was against hiring Porter - I was in favor of it) so I think they'll be in good shape.
Also, this just semantics, but wouldn't it make more sense to call him the interim GM?
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Well he got you to go to his level so he can chalk you up as a W.
Looks like the mlbtraderumors front office is trying harder to keep this site relevant than the Braves front office.
Classy...
dang
Keep it coming.
If “woke” makes you a decent human being then I’m impressed, Tom.
Good deal, like I said before: "I guess Loup would be the new Justin Wilson. I liked Wilson, and I still kind of hope they bring him back along with Loup because even though they are both lefties, those are two completely different arm angles."
And lolmetsforever, if you reply to this, your mom's a hoe.
Yeah, going cheap. Give me a break, Braves had an opening day payroll last year of around $155mil. Cheap teams don't have payrolls that big, get a clue for once.
Nice
They signed him pending a phys
back to Philly?
Saw him pitch a few times for the Rays. He's definitely "meh" but on the good side of "meh". Depending on the price, not a bad pickup at all.
They pay taxes in Canadian dollars while getting paid American dollars, I cant' imagine the taxes are the same as they were 10-20 years ago. The Canadian Dollar is at 0.78 to the American one.
Gallo is horrible, a .208 career hitter with the 2nd highest strikeout rate in the majors since 2015 at 37.6%. I'd be surprised if anyone would ever give much for him.
Except you, obviously.
Once the Yankees decided to go back to reclamation projects which is Cashman's specialty like Nathan Eovaldi & James Paxton due to high end ceiling but injury prone you knew Cashman once again will tab into the "Potential" basis again with Kluber & Taillion to now form the best starting pitching rotation aside of Cole as the "Mash Unit with Potential".
Now Cashman simply traded in Otto for O'Day & eventually Gardner again not surprised at all by Cashman's moves O'Day is more reliable than Otto but I still feel the Yankees dropped the ball they could have traded Voit or Gio should have moved Gleybar to Second Base while moving DJ to First Base and letting him play some 2nd & 3rd base in the meantime while they could have landed Lindor & Carrasco or the Yankees should have asked the Cubs for Bryant & Hendriks selling high on Gio and others while they could.
Cashman can build good bullpens but he is horrible on Starting Pitching and is way too loyal on some players aka Gardner or won't admit horrible Signings Stanton, Hicks right now to just name a few and rather than try with Hicks say to seek a trade and eat most of his contract he will run out identical situation in the Outfield and all out "Mash Unit" .
He wont give Red Thunder a boost of confidence yet continues to makes this Yankee team an older team which will lead to more question marks than answers.
Farhan took on one of the worst situations of any team in the majors: a bloated payroll, aging veterans, and a putrid farm system and has done a stellar job in uniquely approaching the problems and addressing them.
People are certainly welcome to their own opinion, but it's a bizarre thing that fans dislike what Zaidi is doing, as these were the same nitwits who complained that Evans went and got past-their-prime veterans a few years ago.
I feel like I’ve been out of the Loup on this one
Agreed, Until the Jays address SP they are fighting for 3rd with Boston. Red Sox adding Richards and E-Rod (and Sale later in the year), plus Kiki, they have upgrade starting pitching more than the Jays have. In fact, Richards and E-Rod are arguably better than Robbie Ray.
Would love TM... a move between the O’s and Braves for TM makes a ton of sense. Higher risk move for the Braves though. Just don’t know with his health / covid if he’s even gonna come back in a shell of his 2019 self
Yanks need a left side hitter - go get Joc
Duvall was only good for a 9 game stretch last year. otherwise he was horrible during the rest of the season and the post-season.
Really hoped he’d come back to Atlanta. Backend bullpen guys always get the love, but O’Day was a huge part of the Braves last year, especially considering their starting pitching woes. Did his job, got outs, and provided a nice veteran presence in the clubhouse.
I don’t think these are as far off as you’re making it to be, but overall I do agree, that I don’t see any of these happening. If I was Braves mgmt, I don’t want Gallo at all ... especially if that involves trade Riley for him. I feel like that would be trading young Gallo for older Gallo. I’d rather take the risk of developing Riley than taking on Gallo, which lets be honest. is completely overrated. Now some of your other options, are more interesting.
While I agree with DMC, I don't think McGriff thinks Duvall is the answer. I think he doesn't expect the Braves to pick up anyone better so might as well sign Duvall back before he's lost as well.
I also think it's a little premature but it's easy to start getting concerned as we watch all these bats fly off the market while we sit and wonder if AA will pull the trigger on the bat the Braves need in the middle of their line up. The only caveat to that is whether AA has a sufficient payroll available to him to bring back Marcella Ozuna.
You are really reaching just to post a comment!
Cheesesteak gets it. And, yeah, it's been quite a while since the Phils have seen a lefty in their rotation, save for a spot starter or 2.
Oh look - someone’s mommy let them get some internet time
I always thought Theo was their top target and was surprised that they even hired a general manager to begin with, knowing it would prevent them from hiring Theo next winter.
Obviously, scandalous circumstances led to a mulligan, so I’m not surprised that they’re essentially going to let Alderson run the show for a year before making Theo an offer he can’t refuse.
You don't know any of that. You made all of that information up, just like your catfishing- pretending to be a high schooler with a big dweam!
Loup? I remember the Yankees used to handle him well with Blue Jays.
LOL no way on the Blue Jays, they don't have the pitching depth. The White Sox are the only AL team I'm really concerned with
I guess Loup would be the new Justin Wilson. I liked Wilson, and I still kind of hope they bring him back along with Loup because even though they are both lefties, those are two completely different arm angles.
Wouldn’t be a bad pickup.
Theo won’t take a job as GM. He will be president of baseball ops while Sandy does what he was hired to do in the first place. President of organization
Really doesn’t make sense for the giants to make this trade ...
Can only be good with the Rays. He’s ERA is going up to at least a 4:50 this year.
There's that pointless warm take!
Except the free agents they signed & the players they acquired via trade.
Yea only signing Duvall would be a huge downgrade. Honestly Braves and Orioles should do everything possible to make a deal with TM. It just makes a lot of sense for both teams. But we need something much better than Duvall at the plate
No one considers the Mutts to be contenders. Last place finish, book it and lock it!
Nobody? You clearly haven't been reading the trade wires. And I am a Jays fan.....no dog in this hunt.
That's a very sexist thing to say, why do you hate women?
Loupy was pretty reliable in Toronto. Seems like a good guy as well. They certainly could do worse.
Yawn...
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You are so woke! No one is impressed.
I heard he had a dream to play high school baseball! Everybody wanted him to try weal weal hard to be a big ball-playing star!
Bob, Let me know when you get your flu shot. I'm too young and healthy to get on the list, and too old and frail to not be concerned. :)
Taijuan Walker-I'd be interested, but had a 4.56 FIP last year
Jake Odorizzi-I like Odorizzi, but MLB-R was predicting $39M/3. Given that he was hurt last year, that feels rich
Brett Anderson-Solid arm, but he has 2 seasons in the past 10 years in shich he's thrown than 83 innings. I don't think anyone is more injured than him.
Julio Teheran-Underrated, imo. Poor peripherals, but generally runs a 3.80-4.00 ERA with a very dependable innings average. He was my #2 choice after Richards. My guess is the RS chose Richards because his 2020 was much, much better.
Superstar, do you doubt their accuracy? When I replied to an earlier email, they accurately quoted me.
Mutts have to settle for sloppy seconds, nobody wants to associate with that organization!
I've totally given up sexual relations since I became a subscriber.
Of course at my age it's not sacrificing much....
Perhaps he's just a placeholder until they hire Theo next off season.
Wait, you're saying that Sox fans hyped him? The article literally states that he was a top 20 prospect on three sites.
I'd put the White Sox and Blue Jays before them in the AL.
He's still really good despite only pitching a couple dozen innings the last 3 seasons.
When he's healthy, he's great.
the padres are built to try and buy a title in a short period of time. They will fail, just like they have done in the entirety of their franchise history.
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O'Day is actually an extreme flyball pitcher (one of the lowest GB% for over a decade) who throws a ton up in the zone, he's just really hard to hit because his delivery and stuff are good.
A lot of these sidearm guys are incredibly hard to hit if they only have to pitch an inning.
It's a light-hearted joke with a bit of history on MLBTR. Red Sox fans hyped Swihart as a prospect so that he became known in the MLBTR comments section, facetiously, as a "lock for the HOF." We're not making fun of Swihart so much as we are having fun somewhat at the expense of the Sox fans who hyped him. (Same thing with Rob Refsynder and Yankee fans.)
funny how so many players excel after they leave LAA
I like your attitude for sure! I think that if they thought they were a Bauer away from winning it all they would be all in. I think the evaluation is that Bauer is not a difference maker. We have an ace in Severino ready to join the rotation. Bold prediction--Severino out pitches Bauer this year.
I didn’t mean they intend to.
*Just, if*
Copy! 100 percent agreed. They are not worse than Happ without throwing one pitch. Don't forget Severino and German also contributing at some point.
Happ is washed Oday is ehhhh
Why woud Martin get released? He's still got 4-5 years of control plus minor league options.
I'd always rather take an equal quality free agent if possible. But I doubt they'd be giving up any decent prospects. They'd be trading one of the outfielders or Tellez, and/or taking on a contract the other team wants to offload. Might even get prospects in the deal, like the Liriano trade.
This guy is the victims of being too highly touted plenty of MLB catchers or payers with average to below average defense and less than a .243 career average seem to make it and stay in MLB rosters every year but he’s considered a failure only because of the prospect hype
They didnt. They used a guy who’s already part of the org. Theres a difference.
2/$25 seems reasonable from the Brewers standpoint. I just don't see turner accepting that.
Maybe you’re right, maybe not.
$$ is much better spent on pitching, not an old man well past his best days.
As a Braves fan it's maddening to me they let him go at the paltry salary he was making. Add to that Greene and Melancon were already FA. The pen has yet to be addressed and they still don't have a clean up hitter. Smh. But hey, we have Smyly for 11m! ::sigh::
This is a shrewd move by the Yanks, though. He'll help.
They’re excellent at extracting the most value out of most of their FA. Many teams would make a trade (like Ottavino deal) for Ender Inciarte if attached with a prospect. His contract stinks, but far from the..stinkiest.
I can only hope my Tigers are taking notes! Spread the wealth throughout the diamond not just the 1 percenters.
Play to win the division.. if you can catch fire in October GREAT! You cannot and won’t successfully out spend the top tier! But most importantly, never-ever, sell the farm. Trust the process draft-develop. We would gladly take Anthopoulos and co, Antonetti, and Neander!!
4 GM’s in 4 years. Yet considered contenders.
Hey, can we check the math on all these testimonials?
check his numbers vs LH hitters. While has mostly limited contact to both RH and LH batters, when lefties make contact.. It's far& deep.
Good situational reliever from the O's, but reason more games than innings throughout his career.. Used mainly vs RH hitters so that sweeping, almost underhanded arm action can be avoided by LH hitter's.
Unless they are acting on the interim to make some extra cash
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Not sure what my thoughts are about this move. I guess both Bentances and Robertson wanted too much money.
Who cares? He's depth to get you to the post season.
I heard that his brother Michael didn't allow him to work at his company because of his sketchy past.
Could be, but this feels like something that would have already happened if it was going to happen. I'm also not convinced that Rios is the future. He's still very much a work in progress, and given his age, is close to running out of time.
I think that was referring to external candidates, not Scott or anyone currently in the organization.
That's one of the main reasons I'm seldomly here.
It's worked out pretty good for them the last few years.
Every year they are expected to finish 2nd or third in the division and they win it most every year.
Ugh, it's as bad as the NL East with the 1996 and 1999 World Series losses to the Yankmes. I respect the NYY franchise, however they became a WS rival for me decades ago.
Vulgar Sexual harassment sure is funny!
While I don’t like throwing loads of cash against the wall to win a title. Knowing they are in win now mode; screw the luxury tax for a few years and sign Bauer. Go all in once and for all and stop nickel and diming the rotation.
Same thoughts about Braves and O'Day, here. He's a good get for any bullpen.
hahaha next. I love when stupid people talk crap because they think their team is good now. Padres haven't done dick.
But has he been vetted for dong pictures?
no more than 20 innings
Better not screw up this time. I hope they did a deep background check on this guy.
A lot of these odd contracts following 2020 could be mutually beneficial. If MLB doesn't fully recover economically before 2022, the players may very well want to re-enter free agency for 2022. When the revenues are back up, they may be able capitalize on better agreements. This one definitely makes sense on both sides. O'Day had plenty of suitors and the timing likely impaired his earning potential.
Nice signing. I was disappointed ATL chose to let him walk on his option. It was likely due to our Liberty Media ownership being publicly traded and the Braves attempting to stay within hard salary, spending, and earnings limits.
While it's a laudable signing for the Yankmes, I regret O'Day landing with them as much as I would if he went to another team in the NL East. 1996 and 1999 World Series still sours my beers...
Except the Ricketts family has revitalized wrigley and it’s surrounding areas. They have been top 5-10 in payroll for the last couple of seasons. Yes, i’ll take the title in 2016. The allocation of resources has been horrendous on Theo’s (and Jed’s) part. They have spent $$ on average returns. They have had 3 positive signings (2 were huge $) Zobrist, Lester, Yu. The rest have been bad. Quit blaming the rickett’s for being “cheap” as that is a falsehood. The cubs have bet on a lot of guys. These same players havent really improved. Addison russell (gone), KB, schwarber, heyward, etc. javy was great and then last season he was worst qualified mlb’er in terms of offensive output. Look at other teams in the league with big resources. They dont just simply trade “blocked” guys for the hell of it. Organizational depth is a big reason teams like the cardinals, rays, athletics stay relevant.
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I would have been happy with Scott getting the job in the first place (not to retroactively say I was against hiring Porter - I was in favor of it) so I think they'll be in good shape.
Also, this just semantics, but wouldn't it make more sense to call him the interim GM?
O'Day is 38 and has pitched no more than 20 innings in each of the last 3 seasons. I wonder if he could run out of gas late in the year.
O'Day is 38 and has pitched more than 20 innings in each of the last 3 seasons. I wonder if he could run out of gas late in the year.