Braves Released Glavine, Will Hudson be Next?
The way the Altanta Braves unceremoniously "released" their HOF pitchers, Glavine and Smoltz, after their injuries, one has to wonder how they'll treat Hudson if he doesn't recover well from Tommy Jones.
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The Braves just traded for Nate Mclouth of the Pirates, for three prospects
by gunnero on Jun 3, 2009 5:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
No.
Glavine is a 1st ballot HOF, but he hasn’t been good recently
Huddy dominated in ‘08. Absolutely dominated. I think he recovers and does fine though, he’s also got a decade of age under Glavine.
Even though I don’t fully understand releasing him. Use him out of the pen?
"You end up with a name like ‘Outman,’" he said last week. "What else are you going to do? You’re going to get people out, man." ~ Dallas Braden
by Blicks on Jun 3, 2009 7:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
They made the right “business” decision to cut Glavine, despite his HOF career and what he had done for the organization. If Hudson doesn’t recover well, they’ll perhaps put him in the bullpen, and if that fails, they won’t hesitate to let him go either, IMO.
Zito and Mulder haven’t fared well in recent years, and now Hudson has TJ surgery. I wonder if they’ve all reached the expiration date. The Braves have Lowe as their new ace, and a decent rotation without Hudson.
In the battle of the strong, victory goes to the brave.
by javaball on Jun 4, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Braves saved money by releasing Glavine
because of how his contract was structured. That probably enabled the McLouth deal to happen, because Wren has stated that they had very, very little payroll flexibility after signing all that pitching last offseason.
If they end up trading for another OF bat (which they will probably need to in order to edge out the Mets and Phillies, especially if either of those teams trade for the better available pitchers - GA and Frenchy still can’t hit), they’ll probably have to overpay in terms of prospects in exchange for the other team picking up some salary.
That won’t be the case with Huddy. They’re paying him the same amount regardless of whether he pitches well or not this season. His contract isn’t tied to incentives based on IP or making the MLB roster.
Unless he REALLY impresses and the Braves pick up his option next year (and trade Vazquez or Kawakami), but he’ll have to absolutely dominate for that to be the case.
"You end up with a name like ‘Outman,’" he said last week. "What else are you going to do? You’re going to get people out, man." ~ Dallas Braden
by Blicks on Jun 4, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quick Billy, sign him!!
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Jun 3, 2009 8:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Might be worth a shot
Considering his solid rehab start… but really, it might end up being a signing for the DL team
and our starters are starting to put together some solid starts (a lot of ‘starts’ eh)
then again, we might need some bullpen help down the road.
but, we could use some hitting and hope for another AK find.
by fruitattack on Jun 3, 2009 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sign glavine
it probably would cost less than $1million. I would love for all of the rookie pitchers to be able to spend 6-8 weeks more in AAA. They could rotate. It would buy the A’s an extra year of control for the young guys as well. Of, course he can sign anywhere he wants for $1million. Why would he go to a team that is packing it in for the season.
by RayJEdd on Jun 4, 2009 9:18 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Because unlike Furcal
He secretly loves the A’s!
by fruitattack on Jun 4, 2009 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree that it would've been nice for the rookie pitchers to have more AAA time
but would you send them down now? They are gelling and coming into their own and are frankly the one bright spot on the current team. I fear that sending them down would be detrimental to their development at this point and take whatever wind we have out of our sails completely.
I love them A's, even when they're earnin' F's.
by Jackson23 on Jun 4, 2009 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Calling them up too early could have been detrimental to their development...but they did that so...
why not?
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
by winchester5 on Jun 5, 2009 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
it will be for league minimum
braves will be paying him his base for what they signed him for
The Not-So-Casual Fan
by rktse on Jun 5, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tommy Hanson
was probably the reason they released Glavine more than saving a little cash. He’s ready for the majors, they called him up, and he should outperform Glavine.
by swatnick on Jun 4, 2009 2:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
No one--I repeat--no one
..recovers from Tommy Jones
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
by JediLeroy on Jun 4, 2009 10:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Well, age will flatten a man.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
-Wayne Gretzky"
-Michael Scott
by scatterbrian on Jun 7, 2009 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The cash savings
Was something like $2.25 million so a decent chunk of change ($1M for being put onto the major league roster and another $1.25M which was very easily reachable). the Braves obviously didn’t think he was going to be worth that kind of cash and Tommy Hanson was going to help them more.
It is tough that you have to let go of old fan favorites, but if the player doesn’t want to go you just have to kick them out. MLB is a performance based business and the Braves felt they would get better performance from another player.
by skwid on Jun 6, 2009 3:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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