{"id":1259,"date":"2008-07-29T20:38:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/07\/29\/braves-finally-deal-teixeira\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:39:49","slug":"braves-finally-deal-teixeira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/07\/29\/braves-finally-deal-teixeira\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves finally deal Teixeira."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/sports\/mlb\/atlantabraves_2006logo.gif\" alt=\"Atlanta Braves Logo\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>I think Braves fans knew it was coming sooner or later.  Teixeira had to go; no way the Braves were going to be able to afford to sign him to a long term deal.  Today the Braves <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=3510042\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=3510042', 'sent');\" target=\"new\">sent<\/a> Teixeira to the Angels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, the Angels made the kind of deadline blockbuster they\u2019re often accused of never making when they traded first baseman Casey Kotchman and pitching prospect Stephen Marek to Atlanta for the right to run Teixeira out there as their first baseman for the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, according to a source, the Braves asked for Kotchman, top pitching prospect Nick Adenhart and a third player in exchange for Teixeira. But the Angels told Atlanta that although they might be willing to talk about, essentially, a Kotchman-for-Teixeira swap even-up, they were not willing to open a hole in their club for either 2008 or 2009. The clubs then compromised Tuesday afternoon by agreeing on Marek, a 24-year-old Double-A right-hander who wasn\u2019t regarded as one of the Angels\u2019 premier prospects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not know enough about Kotchman or the AA prospect, but it was probably the best Atlanta could do.  Disappointing, but understandable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Braves fans knew it was coming sooner or later. Teixeira had to go; no way the Braves were going to be able to afford to sign him to a long term deal. Today the Braves sent Teixeira to the Angels. On Tuesday, the Angels made the kind of deadline blockbuster they\u2019re often accused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/07\/29\/braves-finally-deal-teixeira\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Braves finally deal Teixeira.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}