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Time to "type" one out! Friday night RB session
by Rafael Belliard's SLG % on Jan 9, 2009 9:02 PM EST
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With the sophmoric title out of the way, let's get down to brass tacks.
I am about to commit one of the saddest (and, frankly, pathetic) acts of fandom and make a rosterbation post on a Friday night.
Mindlessly packing for a move, combined with recent events, has had me thinking about the Braves all day and I'm in need of a sweet release. This is what I would do if I were Wren: as in inexplicably committed to Francoeur in RF and bringing back Andruw in CF at the league minimum, as well as making 100% sure to bring back Glav to save some PR face. If I, as in me, was the GM I would probably take the flier on Andruw and Glavine but I would get rid of Francoeur, and make a trade for Nady or Ankiel. But that's not in the cards...so here it goes:
Free Agent Signings
- Derek Lowe - 3/$45MM + $15MM player option & $1MM buyout
- Kenshin Kawakami - 3/$24MM
- Adam Dunn - 2/$20MM
- Will Ohman - 2/$8MM
Jon Garland - 3/$30MM + $12MM vesting optionlol j/k- Tom Glavine - 1/$2.5MM (2.5MM is for the lulz)
- Andruw Jones - 1/$500K
Rotation - $34.96MM
- Lowe - $14MM
- Jurrjens - $460K
- Vazquez - $11.5MM
- Kawakami - $8MM
- Glavine - $2.5MM
Lineup - $31.71MM
- Escobar - $460K
- Kotchman - $2.5MM (dont want Bobby wasting ABs with bunts on KJ here)
- Jones - $11MM
- Dunn - $10MM
- McCann - $3.5MM
- Johnson - $2MM
- Francoeur - $1.75MM
- Jones - $500K
Bullpen - $18.56MM
- LR - Carlyle - $600K
- MR - Boyer - $800K
- MR - Campillo - $460K
- MR - Moylan - $600K (Kinzer aaarrrgggh)
- MR - Ohman - $4MM
- SU - Soriano - $6.1MM
- CL - Gonzalez - $6MM
Bench - $6.86
- Infante - $2.2MM
- Diaz - $2MM
- Ross - $1.4MM
- Norton - $800K
- Prado - $460K
TOTAL 25-MAN PAYROLL: $92.09MM
Aaaaaaannnd I'm spent.
Feel free to comment, correct, nitpick, flame, laugh, humiliate.
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Braves to meet with Lowe
by Rafael Belliard's SLG % on Jan 8, 2009 10:12 AM EST
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Braves to Meet With Lowe: MLBTradeRumors.com
If Smoltz leaving forces Wren to sign the pitcher he should've been after all along, then good luck Smoltzie and welcome home Derek.
To hash out a bit of rosterbating, and going along with the official site that says we want Kawakami AND Lowe, I think this rotation has real potential:
Lowe
Vazquez
Jurrjens
Kawakami
Glavine/Campillo/Morton/Hanson/Reyes
There might not be an "Ace" but it is a rotation that could go toe-to-toe with any other in the NL
Braves not as idle as they've seemed
From DOB:
I’ve got one more day of vacation today (I took two weeks, for those counting out there) and will be back with a new blog tomorrow. Could be an interesting week for the Braves, who have not been nearly as inactive as you might think in the past week. Phone calls have been made, believe me
Vague, but much more than anything we've seen since the Furcal debacle.
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