Are you kidding?
We lose a great closer, but get rid of the most hated sports figure in Atlanta AND we don't have to pay a dime of the remaining contract.
Getting rid of Melvin Upton Jr, the Pads eating all of his remaining contract and all we had to lose was a closer, and we get a very good prospect?
You're right, it's not robbery, it's downright r*pe.
You're such a homer. You traded away a closer that could end up challenging Mariano Rivera's save record and be one of the all-time greatest closers just to help get rid of a bad contract? That's awful. Braves got fucked in the ass, hard.
The Padres system was already drained so getting their top pitching prospect isn't saying much. You better hope they NAIL that 41st overall pick or this trade is just awful, awful, awful.
Having a great closer along with his salary, on a team that will not complete til 2017 at the earliest is pointless. Freeing up $56 mil while getting the No. 34 prospect in baseball, the 41st pick in the draft, & another prospect is a great move for the Braves.
Seriously, why the fuck would the Braves need a great closer right now or in the near future?
The only team that got fucked here were the Padres. Talk to me in 2 years when the Padres are stuck with $68 mil on the books for only 4 players & they still struggle to win 90 games. Then we will be talking about how the Padres have no farm & no money. They can look back on this deal & few others as the cause of that.
You mean the ones that would strikeout with a runner on third and 1 out?but you also got rid of your few above average hitters in the process.
You're God damn right I'm a homer. But, he was a CLOSER, not a front line starter, not a top flight hitter, but a CLOSER. You know the guy that's only expected to pitch one inning every few games, the position that's the most overrated in baseball.You're such a homer. You traded away a closer that could end up challenging Mariano Rivera's save record and be one of the all-time greatest closers just to help get rid of a bad contract? That's awful. Braves got fucked in the ass, hard.
The Padres system was already drained so getting their top pitching prospect isn't saying much. You better hope they NAIL that 41st overall pick or this trade is just awful, awful, awful.
Padres Acquire Craig Kimbrel, Melvin Upton Jr.
By Charlie Wilmoth [April 5, 2015 at 5:09pm CDT]
5:15pm: The Braves will acquire Maybin and Quentin, Rosenthal tweets. The Braves will also acquire pitcher Matt Wisler, as FOX Sports’ Jon Morosi tweets. McDaniel tweets that the Braves will also receive outfield prospect Jordan Paroubeck. Rosenthal tweets that the Braves will also receive the 41st pick in this June’s draft.
5:11pm: The Padres have acquired Craig Kimbrel and Melvin Upton Jr. (formerly known as B.J. Upton) from the Braves, Kiley McDaniel of Fangraphs tweets.
5:09pm: The Padres have completed a trade, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports tweets. It’s not yet clear which players are involved. Bleacher Report’s Scott Miller tweets, however, that the trade could involve Cameron Maybin or fellow outfielder Carlos Quentin, which would make sense given the Padres’ roster construction.
You mean the ones that would strikeout with a runner on third and 1 out?
We lose power, but we gain a lot more contact, and I'd rather have a team that can put the ball in play than one that either hits a solo homer or strikes out.
And we still have Freeman.
You're God damn right I'm a homer. But, he was a CLOSER, not a front line starter, not a top flight hitter, but a CLOSER. You know the guy that's only expected to pitch one inning every few games, the position that's the most overrated in baseball.
And if you're not a Braves fan, you clearly don't know how important it was to get rid of BJ Upton, and all the Padres wanted was a CLOSER and they ate the entire contract and sent us a high ranked prospect. Do you not remember how the Braves had to rid themselves of Dan Uggla? We had to release him, and we still owe him 13 million for this season, and we paid him last season for trying to make a roster on another team. We couldn't afford to do the same with BJ, and if we didn't find a team willing to take him, that's what we would have had to have done.
It was either be stuck with BJ this season, release him after the season and still have to pay him the next two seasons, or trade him away, find the one team that's willing to take on that contract, and all they want with him is a CLOSER, and we get a top prospect and we get rid of the worst contract in franchise history and don't have to pay a dime of it?
Any Braves fan that doesn't like this trade is too blinded by the emotion of losing Kimbrel, but at the end of the day, we lost a closer, but we also lost the face of last season's failures.
But it's not as if some of the guys they lost (Heyward, Gattis, J.Upton) were .220 hitters who could only hit homers...the three of them collectively hit around .270ish, whereas Rotochamp for what it's worth is projecting their replacements to hit .258 with less power. I'm not so sure that being contact hitters alone makes those replacements an upgrade if they do everything else offensively worse.