Teixeira to Angels

[Guest Number 6]

Braves reap a decent bounty in Kotchman.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3510042

[Frayed Knot]

Make me an Angel, who flies from Atlanta ...



Just in time too for the Yanqui series starting Thursday.
Yanx, in fact, have 10 games remaining with the Halos.

[metirish]

This is a good deal for the Braves? , looking at the contending teams most have no spot for a first baseman and he's a decent glove so DH is not the preferred option.

How did the Braves do?

[Frayed Knot]

They did OK I guess.
Kotchman's not as good as Teixeira and probably never will be -- but he's decent, plus younger and cheaper and under club control for another three years.
Don't know anything about the other guy, sounds like he's bullpen material.

[Guest AG/DC]

Good news here is to the 2008 Mets.

With all this heat we've been been feeling, if we can stay hot for a week or two more (and I mean to start by straightening last night's shit out and taking two against Florida) during all this intra-divsioinal play, we can put the Braves away.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's one of those gutwrenchers for the Angels. Nothing teribly wrong with Kotchman, other than a relative lack of pop, but an org guy who they brought along and whom I'm sure they all wanted to see succeed as an Angel. You'd hate to urrender that for a rental and/or to come up short of a championship.

[Frayed Knot]

And this Angels mgmt team has been VERY reluctant to trade away their home-growns.
Plus I beleive Kotchman's father is an exec within the organization - Regional Scouting Director or something like that - so Casey is someone they've literally had since he was a kid.

[Guest AG/DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That's one of those gutwrenchers for the Angels. Nothing terribly wrong with Kotchman, other than a relative lack of pop, but an org guy who they brought along and whom I'm sure they all wanted to see succeed as an Angel. You'd hate to surrender that for a rental and/or to come up short of a championship.

Preston for Piazza, sort of.

[The Hot Corner]

Ag/DC - "Preston for Piazza, sort of."

The Angels can only hope this trade turns out that well for them.

[Guest AG/DC]

No doubt, but You kow where it stood at the time. Piazza was only taking the Mets out for a test drive.

It's hard to remember, because of all the places you've been with your heart since, but if you had a heart then, it panged for Preston.

[Guest attgig]

Frayed Knot wrote: They did OK I guess. Kotchman's not as good as Teixeira and probably never will be -- but he's decent, plus younger and cheaper and under club control for another three years. Don't know anything about the other guy, sounds like he's bullpen material.

Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Elvis Andrus, Matt Harrison, Neftali Feliz, and Beau Jones.
for 1 year of Teixeira (in which they did not make the playoffs), Casey Kotchman and Stephen Marek


ultimately, a horrible deal for the braves.

[Gwreck]

With all those prospects involved, too early to know if it's horrible, no? The Rangers haven't gotten any major league production of substance from those players yet.

[Valadius]

Saltalamacchia had that one big game last year.

[Frayed Knot]

I was looking at them as seperate deals and was saying they did 'OK' with this one.

But even overall, Teixeira did everything the Braves wanted from him during his time there. That the rest of the team fell apart and they failed to reach the WS I don't think stamps the original trade as a failure.
And going forward, Kotchman could still outplay Saltalamacchia et al putting them ahead in the long run.