Buccos offseason

[crfball]

You mean Jeanmar Gomez for Quincey Lattimore?

[Eaglealum]

See I'm on the other side...Lattimore plays great defense, great speed, had double digit hr and steals....Gomez is in what his 4th or 5th ML season and had a close to 6 ERA? Dumb!!!

[Eaglealum]

Karstens is coming back!!! Buccos were sniffing Shawn Marcum but the 2.5 mil (paycut) Karstens signed for changed their minds quickly...don't care, I like Karstens...solid 4-5 guy

[Eaglealum]

Also signed 33 yr old Brad Hawpe who spent last year in AA and only avg 20 hr in colorado before the humidor....why?

[Coach]

Hawpe was signed to a minor league deal.

[S Cube]

Marte, Snyder, Tabata, Sands, Presley, Jones, Sanchez......just what we need, another 1B/OF type.

[Eaglealum]

Switching to teams that actually got better....Freddie Gonzales is gonna have a nice problem figuring out a lineup,,,he now has 6 4 thru 6 hitters and 2 leadoff guys with the trade to obtain the rest of the Upton family. I'll take a shot.. 1.Simmons -ss(if they don't send the kid to AAA), 2. BJ Upton -cf, 3. J.Upton - lf, 4. B. McCann -c 5. Freeman -1b, 6. Heyward -rf, 7. Uggla -2b, 8. Johnson/Francisco- 3b, 9. pitcher.... there's your new modern team hr leaders

[S Cube]

McCain, Freeman, and Hayward are all LH so I doubt they would be in a row. I think they have Prado peciled in at 3B. But yeah it is a good problem to have. This move definitely puts ATL in the drivers seat for at least one of the wild card spots.

[Eaglealum]

prado was part of trade...they got chris johnson-3b from dbacks along with upton for 5 guys

[S Cube]

Oh wow I didn't know all that! Johnson could have a breakout year. He looked great down the stretch last year, he did in the Bucs more than once. Who is the Dbacks GM? Kevin Towers? This move probably gets him fired in <2 years.