2014 Winter Moves that will never happen but should!

 Da Barves fired Frank Wren today and tho I'm more of the statistical analysis type rather than a deal maker (like Bryce) I still have a few ideas of some across the board moves that could help the team both in the long and the short term.



 #1 - Trade Gattis,Jason Hursh,Kris Medlen and Mike Minor to the Rangers for Joey Gallo, Luke Jackson and Ryan Rua.  Barves give up a lot here, but hey  get the premiere 3b prospect power house in the game and a solid starting prospect as well as a bench bat with a possible future in Rua. Gallo gets a shot  at winning a  job in spring training either at 3b or LF.

#2 Trade Justin Upton to the Mariners for James Paxton and a low level but highly rated positional  prospect.

#3 Trade Chris Johnson and Avilan to the Astros for Enrique Hernandez and a  low level arm - CJ would do better in that park and the Stros are in dire need at 3b as Matt dominguez was the 2nd worst qualifying player in baseball last year and doesn't project to improve. Braves get a solid 4th OF'er type in Hernandez who can get on base and not embarrass you backing up CF.

#4 Braves trade BJ Upton and Jr graham + $20m over 3 years to the Blue Jays for RA Dickey.  they need a CF'er, they want to get rid of Dickey  we pay them only $20m but the addition of Graham makes them hope that their offensive driven team spurs BJ.

#5 offer Heyward an 8 year $160m extension.    he's worth it, you are getting prime years the entire way. he still gets to hit free agency in his early 30's.  if he rejects it we move on to...

#6  Heyward,Wren. and Carpenter to the Red Sox  for Mookie Betts and Rubby De La  Rosa.   Betts becomes the new RF's and Rubby has a lot of stuff I like and I think he could thrive under McDowell.

sign Mark Reynolds for 2 years $12 m to be bench power and insure Gallo at 3b and spell Freeman who needs more off days  IMO

Sign Norichiko Aoki for 3 years $22m with a team option for a 4th year  with a $1m buyout

Sign Colby Rasmus to a 3 year $24m deal with a 4th year option with a $1m buyout

tender Beachy but bring him back very slowly  and carefully, 18 months until he touches a baseball

lots of backup  catcher options, Laird returning for 2 yr $3m doesn't even  seem bad honestly

make 2b a competition between Goose,TLS and Peraza, may the best man win (I would just give Peraza the job with the other two standing by myself)

Rotation:

Teheran
Dickey
Wood
Paxton
De La Rosa

pen:
Shreve
Russell
Varvaro
Hale
Simmons
Walden
Kimbrel

Lineup:
2b-Peraza
LF-Aoki
1B-Freeman
3B-Gallo
RF-Betts
CF-Rasmus
SS-Simmons
C-Bethancourt

Bench:
Hernandez- OF
Rua- OF
Goose-IF
C-Laird
Bench power- Reynolds


This team would hit for get on base, steal a lot of bases and hit for a fair bit of power (less than 2013 but would have more runners on base than 2014) and the pitching is solid.

this is prolly all pipe dream nonsense and I think the total  payroll comes out to be around$90m- $100m including Bj and Uggla's  $$$ (and that's giving $6m this year for BJ, then $6m in 2016, then $7m in 2015)