Hampton Gone, Other Updates

Written by Colin on December 2, 2008 – 8:39 am

Mike Hampton is suffering from Tom Glavine Syndrome. He accepted a contract with the Houston Astros for less money than the Braves were offering to be closer to his kids. While we can’t fault him, we sure can make fun of him for taking just over $95,000 each inning. And by make fun of him, we do mean “be jealous of” him – wouldn’t we all take that job? Hope he can stay healthy for the Astros. Looks like it’s a one year, $2 million contract. We wish him nothing but the best. The Braves now need to fill 3 spots in the rotation.

ESPN is reporting that the Braves are not likely to get Jake Peavy, but it could be revived at any time. Speculation is that our offer is still on the table and that if the Padres decide to play ball, we’ll end up with Peavy after all. Sounds like they’re just being unreasonable with what they want for Peavy.

ESPN also said that with $40 million to spend, the Braves will upgrade their starting pitching. No duh. That was helpful. I could have a TV show if that’s all I needed to say.

Looks like the Braves didn’t land Junichi Tazawa, the 22 year old Japanese phenom. Two separate newspaper reports indiciate he’ll sign with the Red Sox on a 3 year major league contract soon. That’s a shame – I’d have loved to see him pitch here in Atlanta. Here’s hoping two major newspapers are full of crap.

What do you think the Braves can do from this point forward to make the best of the offseason?  No CC? No Peavy? No Tazawa? Should we forget about pitching and just buy all the offense we want? If not, who do we want?

Tags: Jake Peavy, Junichi Tazawa, Mike Hampton
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