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Isan Diaz has some crazy home/road splits. Home: .170/.248/.217 Road: .265/.337/.434

Braun is currently the 5th ranked OFer in All Star voting.

In terms of stats and stuff like that, sure. In terms of trades and trade value? No, he's awful. He's the one that suggested Segura for Despaigne and Maurer last year. Not to derail the thread or defend Cameron but Segura was coming off a .246/.289/.326 year when he proposed that trade.

I find Dave Cameron to be one of the least informed baseball pundits out there. Cool

Cameron knows his stuff. That article was just spitballing names. In the summary he says that the Nats make the most sense. It seems this is like one of those games of telephone where the message gets diluted the more it's repeated. Fangraphs writes an article which is quoted by the Globe which is paraphrased by Yahoo.....and all of a sudden you get Braun and Lucroy for Fat Panda and an underachieving prospect. Here are the pertinent paragraphs as they relate to the Red Sox: And the options for a deal with Boston extend beyond just shipping Braun and some portion of his contract to the Red Sox. The Brewers and Red Sox are natural trade partners on multiple fronts, and if the teams wanted to get together on a blockbuster, there appears to be a chance for them to make one big move that solves a bunch of problems all at once. With Blake Swihart already losing his job and potentially being moved out from behind the plate if he stays in Boston, Jonathan Lucroy would also make a good deal sense for Boston, and a Lucroy/Braun package could allow the Brewers to start asking for some interesting young players in exchange, rather than simply dumping salary. Toss in the fact that the Brewers could also take back one of the Red Sox dead money contracts — either Rusney Castillo or Pablo Sandoval, or both if they wanted to get really crazy — and the options for a blockbuster get pretty interesting. Castillo could work as an offset for Braun’s contract if the teams would rather go that direction rather than having the Brewers continue to pay Braun after he leaves town, and potentially motivate the Red Sox to move a guy like Swihart in a deal that got them both Braun and Lucroy while moving Castillo’s deal. Toss in some secondary prospects to make it worth the Brewers time, and the Red Sox could load up for a strong run for the next few years, while the Brewers could give Swihart a real shot behind the plate to see if he can stick at catcher, while also adding some more youth to their rebuild.

Critical or not it is the same outcome. No one is going to want a crippled Braun who cannot stay on the field. Not all of his missed time is due to his back. There are many more reasons he is missing time. Except for all the teams listed in the MLB Trade Rumors article. Someone will trade for him. It's simply a matter of how much they are willing to give up in order to get a guy with his injury history.

The other thing to consider is that there isn't much pitching out there to be had. Most non contending teams have junk to offer other than maybe Julio Teheran. Perhaps the price will be high for a guy like Nelson.

Powell had a pretty epic anti-Braun rant after he was busted. Doesn't surprise me he still holds a grudge.

There's no reason the teams can't pay for them. But they know the cities will always kick in money so they don't need to pay for them.

Nelson is the best pitcher on a bad team. Let's not make him out to be something he isn't. He isn't a #1 starter on a playoff team. The question is, do you wait and hope he breaks out in the next year or two and keep him for a run in three or four years or do you trade him when he has a ton of value since he's both cheap and controllable.

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2016_05_18_blxaax_cngaax_1&t=g_box&sid=milb

Is he a guy that you consider part of the "future"? If not, he might fetch something decent since he has years of control left. White Sox might have interest.

I was about to get excited if he got past Zobrist.

If he can get past Rizzo here in the 7th...

Nothing would please me more than for Chase Anderson and his 6.11ERA to continue what he's doing tonight against this team with those fans invading our stadium.

Sale also debuted for a Sox team that won 88 games.

After reading your post, I looked up Urias on b-ref. He played in the midwest league at 16 freakin' years old. That's insane.

Pretty sure that was leftover from the bat flip deal.

I don't know if promoting to Colorado Springs would be considered a reward.

I would hardly call Hader's season a "waste". There are a lot of things he can work on. For one, be more economical with his pitches. Brewers have traditionally made a bunch of promotions after the draft in June. We will see if the new regime follows the same protocol.

Here is what my brother (who has worked in newspapers for like 30 years) says about changing direct quotes: "I tend not to make any changes whatsoever if I am going to direct quote someone. There are people who think it's OK to "clean up" someone's grammar, for instance. I don't. If someone says something that's kind of garbled, I rephrase it, don't put quotes around it. an indirect quote. as long as what you're saying they said is what they meant, then that's groovy."

I like what I'm seeing out of Freddy Peralta so far. Putting together another nice outing today.

You'd think ESPN would link to the original article.

Trent Clark has 4 doubles and 9 walks in 5 games. Me likey.

Nice to see Clark hit the ground running.