Braves get Inciarte and Dansby Swanson for Shelby miller

[FlipsideRM]

How has this not been posted? Braves get 2 capable bats, 1 of them being the #1 pick in baseball this year

[d2bets]

Braves made out nicely.

[FlipsideRM]

Braves made out nicely.

I agree 100%.

[MoMoneyMoVaughn]

Baseball names are so much better than any other sport.

Dansby Swanson?

What an incredibly baseball name.

Only group of people with better names are football coaches.

Chip Kelly.
Dabo Swinney.
Urban Meyer.
Tommy Tuberville.
Jimbo Fisher.
Dino Babers.
Skip Holtz.
Doc Holliday.
Mark Whipple.
Mike Bobo.
Sonny Dykes.
Les Miles.
Kirby Smart.
Art Briles.

[BRAVES1985]

im hard

[pavyracer]

Gwinnett Braves will be better than Atlanta Braves this year for sure.

[Otters27]

Dansby will not be able to hit in the MLB pitching

[pavyracer]

Dansby will not be able to hit in the MLB pitching

No kidding. He will play for the minor league teams for a while.

[daneblazer]

They got some other good prospect too
aaron Blair

[iifold]

On the surface it looks good for the Braves, but I'd say the DBacks win here...

Dansby will be Cliff Pennington in 7 years...

Inciarte is a solid player but goes from a hitters park to Atlanta... Needs to steal a bunch of bases or he's just an average player...

[El Nino]

Dansby is so good he went to college...enough said. Inciarte can rake and has speed, going to miss him. Blair isn't ready, he would have been called up when Bradley and Godley got called up last year. Dbacks didn't have to give up Pollock (which is what the Braves originally wanted) and we kept our best AA/AAA players. Dbacks gave up a lot, but it's potential...where you know what you have with Miller, a #2 pitcher in a solid rotation.

[Ralphie Halves]

Dansby is so good he went to college...enough said. Inciarte can rake and has speed, going to miss him. Blair isn't ready, he would have been called up when Bradley and Godley got called up last year. Dbacks didn't have to give up Pollock (which is what the Braves originally wanted) and we kept our best AA/AAA players. Dbacks gave up a lot, but it's potential...where you know what you have with Miller, a #2 pitcher in a solid rotation.

Are you guys still going after Cueto now?

[El Nino]

Are you guys still going after Cueto now?

Nope, once Greinke was signed I think they bailed on Cueto. They were going after Leake, but since they traded for Miller, I heard they are out. They need some bullpen arms now.

[Mr KLC]

The Braves are sending shortstop Dansby Swanson down to Triple-A Gwinnett to receive everyday at-bats as they look to break him out of a lengthy slump, tweets Mark Bowman of MLB.com.

Swanson got off to a terrible start to the season but righted the ship from early May through July 1, hitting .282/.352/.420 with a dozen doubles and four homers through 196 plate appearances. Unfortunately, he’d fallen into a brutal 2-for-40 slump and begun to lose some playing time to the hotter-hitting Johan Camargo.

By all accounts, Swanson is still largely viewed as the shortstop of the future in Atlanta despite what can be described, at best, as an up and down 2017 campaign. He’s yet to take a full season’s worth of plate appearances in the Majors or in the minors, so at 23 years of age Swanson should hardly be considered any kind of lost cause. In all likelihood, Swanson will get another chance to prove himself at the Major League level later this season after working to sort out some kinks in a lower-pressure environment.

From a service time standpoint, he’s currently just nine days away from reaching a full year, so it’s exceedingly likely that he’ll still end up with one-plus year of service this offseason. That’d still leave him on pace to be eligible for arbitration upon completion of the 2019 season and eligible for free agency in the 2022-23 offseason.

[Mr KLC]

The Rangers are in agreement on a one-year, Major League contract with right-hander Shelby Miller, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic tweets.

Miller, a client of Roc Nation Sports, will be the latest addition for a Texas club that has worked to dramatically overhaul its starting rotation on the heels of a disastrous 2018 season. Texas added left-hander Drew Smyly in a trade at the outset of the offseason and has since signed Lance Lynn on a three-year contract and selected the contract of veteran righty Edinson Volquez, who was signed last offseason to a two-year minor league contract in the wake of Aug. 2017 Tommy John surgery. That quartet, presumably, will team up with lefty Mike Minor to comprise the Rangers’ rotation early in the 2019 campaign (health permitting).

[Mr KLC]

Miller can earn $1.25MM worth of bonuses based on days spent on the active roster and another $1.75MM worth of bonuses based on innings pitched, tweets Fancred’s Jon Heyman. The innings incentives kick in once he reaches 60 innings and cap out at 180 innings.