You're probably right but in money ball oakland get's jason giambis brother after jason is gone. Is this not what happened irl?
The movie muddles it up a little bit because they start showing things after Jason has left and play up Jeremy as if inserting him into the lineup as a Jason replacement of sorts is a brand new role for him. They had two years of overlap in Oakland (2000 and 2001) with both playing the majority of the season (Jason as a 1B/DH, Jeremy as a RF/LF/DH/1B)
but another poster earlier on is correct about the pair I forgot: The LaRoche bros played together for part of 2009 on the Pirates.
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The movie muddles it up a little bit because they start showing things after Jason has left and play up Jeremy as if inserting him into the lineup as a Jason replacement of sorts is a brand new role for him. They had two years of overlap in Oakland (2000 and 2001) with both playing the majority of the season (Jason as a 1B/DH, Jeremy as a RF/LF/DH/1B)
but another poster earlier on is correct about the pair I forgot: The LaRoche bros played together for part of 2009 on the Pirates.
I still think the Nationals are head and shoulders above the Braves.
Diddo. I question a little bit just how much Braves have improved. They got Upton brothers, Johnson, Walden but have lost Prado, Chipper (to retirement), Bourn and Hanson. Perhaps marginal improvements? However, they were great last year so they should be great next season too.
Nats are the best team in the league that have everything.
Wow Marcum gets base salary of 4M and incentives can get it up to maximum of 6M.
I can't believe no team was willing to pay more than that for him. It helps sometimes to wait to the end of off-season and get some solid bargains like this one.
It also makes me laugh at how much Royals are paying for Santana and Guthrie.
After signing Soriano they are far ahead of the Jays also.
Considering that the Jays do not play the Nationals once this year, I would consider this largely irrelevant.
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Diddo. I question a little bit just how much Braves have improved. They got Upton brothers, Johnson, Walden but have lost Prado, Chipper (to retirement), Bourn and Hanson. Perhaps marginal improvements? However, they were great last year so they should be great next season too.
Nats are the best team in the league that have everything.
Braves did well to get Upton; I will give them that. However, I just don't think they are as good of a team as they get credited for. And for whatever reason, they cannot win in the playoffs. I bet against them everytime and come away with a lot of money.
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Oh I do too. Nats are the best team on paper IMHO. I just think the Braves outfield is crazy good.
Fair enough.
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Reading around the internet, the d'backs are getting destroyed for getting the package they did for Upton.
This is my take on it:
1) Arizona has made it known they want a SS in a trade for Upton.
2) Braves become rumored suitored, as Arizona is interested in SS Simmons.
3) Arizona proceeds to trade their top prospect, Bauer, for a SS with good potential, but nothing special.
4) Arizona now trades Upton to Atlanta, not getting Simmons.
5) End up losing their best prospect (Bauer), best player (Upton), and do not get the clearly superior SS in Simmons.
Moreover, they acquire Prado who has less than 2 years of team-control, and do not get Atlanta's best pitching prospect who is also one of the top prospects in baseball with #1 potential.
Considering that the Jays do not play the Nationals once this year, I would consider this largely irrelevant.
Braves did well to get Upton; I will give them that. However, I just don't think they are as good of a team as they get credited for. And for whatever reason, they cannot win in the playoffs. I bet against them everytime and come away with a lot of money.
Fair enough.
This is my take on it:
1) Arizona has made it known they want a SS in a trade for Upton.
2) Braves become rumored suitored, as Arizona is interested in SS Simmons.
3) Arizona proceeds to trade their top prospect, Bauer, for a SS with good potential, but nothing special.
4) Arizona now trades Upton to Atlanta, not getting Simmons.
5) End up losing their best prospect (Bauer), best player (Upton), and do not get the clearly superior SS in Simmons.
Moreover, they acquire Prado who has less than 2 years of team-control, and do not get Atlanta's best pitching prospect who is also one of the top prospects in baseball with #1 potential.
This is the definition of going full retard.
Teheran? I disagree with that statement. Teheran was awful last season and took huge step backs. Not a guy I'd say has #1 potential or one of the top prospects in baseball. On baseball america podcast, they weren't even sure if they would take Teheran over Delgado and said Braves probably wanted to trade Teheran over Delgado.
The deal sucks for DBacks is because they traded a potential superstar for little. They got Prado back who is awesome but is a FA next season and it will take some good money to sign him (shouldn't the whole point of trading a potential superstar is to get great cheap talent that will be under control for many years to come?). They got Delgado which is good but he's not going to be a great pitcher -- could be good or above average but likely not much more than that. Rest of the package is just meh.
Traded away Bauer and Justin Upton and got got very little back. They wanted a great SS and didn't get anyone like that despite trading both. Also traded Chris Young for Bell and a good chunk of his salary (getting nothing back would have been better). Signed and overpaid for Cody Ross for no reason. Horrible off-season for the DBacks.
Wow Marcum gets base salary of 4M and incentives can get it up to maximum of 6M.
I can't believe no team was willing to pay more than that for him. It helps sometimes to wait to the end of off-season and get some solid bargains like this one.
It also makes me laugh at how much Royals are paying for Santana and Guthrie.
I wonder if his reputation is actually worse then is rumoured. Because his numbers aren't bad at all.
I wonder if his reputation is actually worse then is rumoured. Because his numbers aren't bad at all.
I haven't heard anything about his reputation... unless its with Toronto. Seems like it might be just rumors or just an incident that happened long time ago. Looks like it was the elbow injury stuff that really hurt him... but still, he is a good gamble to take despite the injury issues.
