Show #90: Reviewing the Braves’ Off Season Moves
What is the 2010 payroll? And looking at the team with the new acquisitions.
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January 20th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Steve –
Braves payroll is $83,888,667, before incentives. If all incentives are met, it’s $88,488,667.
The figure I said before was if Moylan and Melky make $6M total, but they only made $4M total. That saves $2M.
http://twitter.com/MLBRumorCentral/status/7990231349
That is a link to an insider article asking “If Johnny Damon is considering retirement” I’m not an insider so I don’t know if he is. But if he is, he would surely take $2M to play another year, right?
January 20th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
“Missing the moments when” is the argument against the DH that is the weakest, in my opinion. To repeat (three-peat?) my former illustration, if you had one terrible rule in any game, it would produce certain fond memories. We have to come at the issue without any sentiment or nostalgia and ask the question, which version does the most justice to the game?
The vast, very vast, majority of pitchers can’t hit their way out of a wet paper bag. It’s a very clumsy part of the game.
By the way, there’s no reason a good-hitting pitcher couldn’t pinch hit. Jason Marquis > Greg Norton.
January 20th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
*as if I ever come at any issue without any sentiment or nostalgia. I’m so full of … 8)
January 20th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Bubdylan,
Thats a good point, Diaz could easily be better, he is already a better defender. But the 2M doesn’t have to go to Damon, I like Nady, or possible signing a SP to a minor league deal to back up this great rotation.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
or Maybe Joe Beimel
January 20th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
or Russel Branyan or Hank Blalock
Oh Please Sign Russel Branyan!
January 20th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
JJ, I would be 100% behind getting Nady.
I think we’re done spending, though.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
How many players who would make a decent DH are free? Cause it would seem that is one more position we wouldn’t be able to fill. The Mets and Phillys would for damn sure.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
None of them are free. They all cost.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Sadly, Aubrey Huff is unavailable
January 20th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Ok, so give ME the 2mil. I’ll be the best damn fan they ever had! I’ll go to every game and cheer. I’ll bring ya’ll with me and we’ll have the time of our lives. “C’mon Chip, c’mon Kid”!!!
But keep Rose out of the HOF. If you want to look up his numbers and go ga-ga over them that’s fine. No Rose and no DH.
January 20th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Courtesy of somebody called “KeepTheStoke” on MLB.com:
media.790thezone.com/Podcasts/1345/frankwren012010.mp3
It’s a 9 minute interview with Wren. Pretty interesting.
January 20th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Dang, try this:
http://media.790thezone.com/Podcasts/1345/frankwren012010.mp3
January 20th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Bub, I heard that live this morning. Seemed very defensive and very canned. He knew what was coming and had some pre-prepared answers. Some fact checking doesn’t really back up some of his answers – particularly the Glaus health issue.
Pushing a show based on a response to this interview so everyone listen.
“Wren will you be Frank with us?”
January 20th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Yeah, I sensed some definite dodging with the Glaus issue, unfortunately. I’d have been much happier if he had just said we’re taking a reasonable, calculated risk with a very high reward, rather than pretending that 29 teams left him on the table at 3 million dollars because they didn’t notice he was there.
“Wren, will you be Frank with us?”
I just drooled on my keyboard.
January 20th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Oh, wait… is it sans comma on purpose? As in, “When will you be frank with us?” changed to “Wren…?”
If so, I’m so happy I might run down the street like George Bailey.
January 20th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
the 2nd one
January 20th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Helloooooooooooo, Bedford Falls!!!
January 20th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a Damon
January 20th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
(Michael) Barret? We don’t need no stinkin’ Barret.
Ok, that was bad. Bad as in bad not bad as in good.
January 20th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Bub,
I posted that link before, it was before they signed Glaus. Who is the 30HR, 100RBI guy.
January 20th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Bub,
Try posting a link that was made in this decade, lol.
January 20th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Sometimes I feel like I need a decoder ring for this message board.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I know you can’t “like” things like on MLBTR, but Bub’s #146 post was one of the smartest things ever posted, ever about Damon.
I would like an upgrade over Joe Thurston, like Adam Kennedy.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Maybe the link is wrong? I was trying to post a podcast that was post-Hinske. When I saved it to my desktop, that’s what I got.