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Prodigal Son · 08-28-2018, 09:11 PM

It's July, and it seems like a news notification pops up every day regarding a trade. It's season one after a fantasy draft, so of course it makes sense that there will be a lot of movement as teams with different focuses either trade away salary or add pieces for a playoff run.

As previously mentioned, the Braves traded away a good SP prospect for Andrelton Simmons. Simmons wants $19.9 million per year for 9(!) years for an extension, so this looks like a half-season rental. Oh well.

Other trades:

- Braves traded Jed Lowrie and 3.5 star pitching prospect Alex Faedo (#53 overall prospect in baseball) for average reliever Kelvin Herrera in a clear salary dump for the Braves. The Braves agreed to pay 25% of Lowrie's salary owed for the rest of 2018 and 2019. His base salary is $10.5 million. So basically the rebuilding Rangers purchased a good pitching prospect for about $10 million.

- Braves traded 2.5-star 3B prospect Miguel Andujar along with two other decent prospects to the White Sox for RP Brad Hand. Hand is in his arbitration years, with only one more year of team control, but he's a good, steady (3.5 star) lefty reliever. Andujar drew a good bit of interest on the trade market, but ultimately Hand seemed like the best fit for The System.

- Braves traded C Evan Gattis (2.5 stars), two solid (2 star) prospects and RP Josh Lueke (3 stars) for C J.T. Realmuto (3 stars). Unfortunately for us, this isn't the real-life 2018 Marlins version of Realmuto. In fact, he's equal to or only a shade better than Gattis, and his salary is higher ($7.2 million vs. $6.2 million), but this is just my idiosyncracy. I like good-fielding catchers. J.T. is at 55 ability / 65 arm, while Gattis is at 40/50. In addition, we were having a huge problem with strikeouts, so I wanted more of a contact hitter and was willing to give up some of Gattis' power. I think Realmuto is a much better fit, so I'm not stressing the price tag.

- Braves traded Darren O'Day (4 stars) to the Dodgers for Yonny Chirinos (2.5 stars) and $750,000. I really liked O'Day, but this was a salary dump to free up some flexibility for extensions and FA. O'Day makes $7.5 million and posted a 1.60 ERA for the Braves in 33.2 IP. Chirinos is just another arm for low-leverage situations, so whatever. We have enough HL arms to let O'Day go.

There are some interesting names on the trading block, including Trout, Harper, and Strasburg, but this is likely the end of our activity for the year. Nothing really earth-shattering, but we got some dust settled on some salary issues and used some prospects to strengthen a couple positions. We don't really need those pitching prospects anyway, right?

08-28-2018, 09:11 PM	#31
Prodigal Son All Star Starter Join Date: May 2006 Location: Iahiodo a.k.a. the flyover Posts: 1,635	Trade Season Activity It's July, and it seems like a news notification pops up every day regarding a trade. It's season one after a fantasy draft, so of course it makes sense that there will be a lot of movement as teams with different focuses either trade away salary or add pieces for a playoff run. As previously mentioned, the Braves traded away a good SP prospect for Andrelton Simmons. Simmons wants $19.9 million per year for 9(!) years for an extension, so this looks like a half-season rental. Oh well. Other trades: - Braves traded Jed Lowrie and 3.5 star pitching prospect Alex Faedo (#53 overall prospect in baseball) for average reliever Kelvin Herrera in a clear salary dump for the Braves. The Braves agreed to pay 25% of Lowrie's salary owed for the rest of 2018 and 2019. His base salary is $10.5 million. So basically the rebuilding Rangers purchased a good pitching prospect for about $10 million. - Braves traded 2.5-star 3B prospect Miguel Andujar along with two other decent prospects to the White Sox for RP Brad Hand. Hand is in his arbitration years, with only one more year of team control, but he's a good, steady (3.5 star) lefty reliever. Andujar drew a good bit of interest on the trade market, but ultimately Hand seemed like the best fit for The System. - Braves traded C Evan Gattis (2.5 stars), two solid (2 star) prospects and RP Josh Lueke (3 stars) for C J.T. Realmuto (3 stars). Unfortunately for us, this isn't the real-life 2018 Marlins version of Realmuto. In fact, he's equal to or only a shade better than Gattis, and his salary is higher ($7.2 million vs. $6.2 million), but this is just my idiosyncracy. I like good-fielding catchers. J.T. is at 55 ability / 65 arm, while Gattis is at 40/50. In addition, we were having a huge problem with strikeouts, so I wanted more of a contact hitter and was willing to give up some of Gattis' power. I think Realmuto is a much better fit, so I'm not stressing the price tag. - Braves traded Darren O'Day (4 stars) to the Dodgers for Yonny Chirinos (2.5 stars) and $750,000. I really liked O'Day, but this was a salary dump to free up some flexibility for extensions and FA. O'Day makes $7.5 million and posted a 1.60 ERA for the Braves in 33.2 IP. Chirinos is just another arm for low-leverage situations, so whatever. We have enough HL arms to let O'Day go. There are some interesting names on the trading block, including Trout, Harper, and Strasburg, but this is likely the end of our activity for the year. Nothing really earth-shattering, but we got some dust settled on some salary issues and used some prospects to strengthen a couple positions. We don't really need those pitching prospects anyway, right?