The Braves have officially traded first baseman Mark Teixeira to the Angels for fellow one bagger Casey Kotchman. The Braves also picked up right handed pitcher Stephen Marek, a bully for AA Arkansas. This deal is a little disappointing, but only because Marek is 25 years old already and is still in AA. Not only that, he’s sporting a 3.66 ERA. Not enough, Frank Wren, not enough for Mark Teixeira. I like Kotchman, and his best years are just ahead of him. You have to get better than Marek thrown in, though. Jose Arredondo, I’m looking at you.
Kotchman is a good player. Not a great player, but a good one. He should not be owned unless you are in a deep NL only league. Teixeira’s value remains the same, as hitting between Chipper Jones and Brian McCann is hard to beat. Vlad and Torii Hunter aren’t too shabby themselves, and I think both of their value just went up a bit.
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The Braves of the 2000s have officially started resembling the Braves of the 1980s in my mind.
No way, AW. The foundation is much better right now than what we saw in the early to mid 80’s. Kotchman is a good get, mind you, but they need to retool the entire OF (I’m looking at you, Frenchy, so get off your ass and start producing. You should be carrying this team right now.). A big part of that will be calling up Jordan Schaffer. I think Kotsay could be the next part to get traded, and I hope it happens today.
The foundation was there in the middle to late 80s as well…until it was traded away.
All I care about are results. And they have sucked the past couple of years.
I can’t argue with that. Sucked out loud even?