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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Friday, July 10, 2009Woo hoo!!!!I've never felt more loved and cared for in the world than I do right now. No less than 25 people have emailed, Twittered, Facebooked, and/or smoke signaled me to give me this glorious, wondrous news:Two National League East foes swapped outfielders on Friday, as the Mets traded Ryan Church to the Braves for Jeff Francoeur. Church, a 30-year-old lefty hitter, was batting .280 with two home runs and 22 RBIs in 67 games for the New York. Francoeur, a 25-year-old righty bat, was hitting .250 with five homers and 35 RBIs in 82 games for Atlanta. I repeat: someone has given the Braves actual value (with value defined as "a sentient being possibly capable of playing baseball") for Jeff Francoeur. That it's the Mets only makes it sweeter. I will sleep very, very well this weekend. Assuming of course I ever stop laughing. (thanks to a jillion people for the heads up) Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 6:34pm Comments
Diesel said...
Why do the Braves always catch all the breaks? Damn them. Posted 07/10 at 06:41 PM
Craig Calcaterra said...
Because the Braves are from the south, and the south is God’s country. Posted 07/10 at 06:42 PM
hermitfool said...
This trade is a terrible tactical mistake by Frank Wren. Now when the Braves continue to suck the entire Brave nation will no longer be be pointing the happy finger at Frenchy, who sucks. By the way, isn’t this proof positive Omar doesn’t know his ass from third base? Posted 07/10 at 06:47 PM
Craig Calcaterra said...
“This trade is a terrible tactical mistake by Frank Wren. Now when the Braves continue to suck the entire Brave nation will no longer be be pointing the happy finger at Frenchy”
Posted 07/10 at 06:48 PM
Luke said...
That’s funny Craig, I just got home and looked on ESPN and saw the trade happened, I immediately came here just to check, and *of course* you’d already written about it… Posted 07/10 at 06:52 PM
mike in brooklyn said...
shutup. just. shut. up. (watching the FOOLS on SNY. they are all very excited by this. mainly because francoeur drove in 100 runs twice. his ops+ in those 2 glorious seasons, btw, were like 87 and 103 or something like that. in a moment of clarity, one of them asked if they should be worried about the braves so willingly trading a 25 yr old outfielder to an in-division rival, they gave it some lipservice then went back to their celebration) i hope church can help you. i feel like—despite watching almost every met game—i never got to see the real church. he played real well 1st half last year before the concussions. if you get that player, you should be happy. his post-concussion stuff last year wasn’t so good, but it was post-concussion, so… and this year, the mets made it obvious they weren’t going to give him a chance to play everyday. Posted 07/10 at 06:55 PM
Andy said...
Incredible mismanagement of Church from the beginning of his Mets career and a horrific trade getting zero value to cap it off. But at least it brought a large amount of joy to you, Mr. Calcaterra, so I guess something was gleaned from this disastrous situation. Posted 07/10 at 06:56 PM
mike in brooklyn said...
i’m also curious: from what you’ve written here—and commenters have added—i always got the impression that francoeur was NOT well-liked by the atl fans. SNY announcers up here just said the exact opposite. “he’s very popular with the braves fans…” Posted 07/10 at 06:57 PM
The Rabbit said...
My son, the Mets fan, had a short comment on the trade. “Way to go, Omar. Francoeur sucks.” Posted 07/10 at 06:59 PM
Kevin S. said...
Francoeur was popular with the Braves fans who don’t understand why baseball teams win. Church should be even better, because he gets to straight platoon with Matt Diaz. Against righties, he’s kinda respectable. Easy win for the Braves. Posted 07/10 at 06:59 PM
Joe said...
Free at last. Free at last. Thank god, we are free at last. Posted 07/10 at 07:02 PM
Andrew said...
Kill…me… Posted 07/10 at 07:18 PM
smsetnor said...
To back up Kevin S, he’s also a hometown guy here and the girls love him for some reason. Posted 07/10 at 07:36 PM
YankeesfanLen said...
The guys over the bridge just laugh themselves silly over that Omar guy. From what little I know of the tripleA scenario, Church wasn’t half bad, and even better considering that there’s no one left. Posted 07/10 at 07:42 PM
Melissa said...
One can only assume that Omar has gotten wind of his imminent firing, and he’s out to sabotage his replacement. At least as a Mets fan living in Atlanta, the Braves outfield has gotten eminently more watchable. Next weekend’s series in the ATL is going to be an interesting one… Oy. Posted 07/10 at 07:51 PM
Patrick said...
Hahahahahaha! I saw the news on MLB.com and couldn’t believe it. I came here straight away… Oh, Jeff Francoeur. WOW! I can’t believe that happened! Posted 07/10 at 07:59 PM
Luis said...
I am a Met fan who appreciates the way the Braves have been run over the years, and I cannot fathom Omar’s logic here. The Mates are unwatchable right now and this makes them even more so. Congrats to the Braves on stealing from a blind man….. Posted 07/10 at 07:59 PM
Aaron Moreno said...
“Because the Braves are from the south, and the south is God’s country.” For some reason, I imagine Craig yelling that at his screen. Posted 07/10 at 08:27 PM
Jason @ IIATMS said...
The Mets are fools. Congrats Craig. My only surprise is that Frenchy didn’t end up on the Royals. if only to imagine a simultaneously cranial combustion of Neyer, Joe Pos and Rany. Can you imagine the Royals landing Frenchy and Yuniesky Betancourt on the same day? Posted 07/10 at 08:41 PM
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Praise the Lord!
Only the throngs of pink Francoeur jersey wearing women at Turner Field will be disappointed by this news. Sadly, though, I don’t know who to start blaming for the Bravos’ woes from here on in…