Will The Atlanta Braves Add Trevor Plouffe?
By Fred Owens
The Atlanta Braves 40-man roster is full but that doesn’t mean they are done. More moves will be made and one of them may result in the Atlanta Braves adding Trevor Plouffe.
Most current Atlanta Braves news is focused on their quest for Chris Sale. However other wheels continue to turn as they attempt to grab another top of the rotation arm boiled over on the hot stove.
Earlier in the week:
- Eric O’Flaherty, Emilio Bonifacio and A.J. Pierzynski elected free agency
- Daniel Winkler, Paco Rodriguez, Rob Whalen and Jesse Biddle were activated from the 60 day DL
- As Jeff told us, the Braves selected Max Fried, Lucas Sims and Johan Camargo and
- Tuffy Gosewisch came on board today.
What next? As I watched the transactions Friday one name caught my eye; Trevor Plouffe.
Bye Bye Minnesota
Late this afternoon came word that the Twins had cut ties with the man who handled the hot corner for them virtually full-time from 2012 through 2015.
3B Trevor Plouffe has been placed on outright waivers, per person w/direct knowledge. Expected to clear today and become FA. #mntwins
— Mike BerardinoNDI (@MikeBerardino) November 18, 2016
It wasn’t that Plouffe was suddenly bad, Miguel Sano is simply better and cheaper. Add to that the reality that Plouffe was about to become expensive; MLBTR projected the 30-year-old would receive about $8.2M in arbitration this year. That’s not much in today’s game really but Sano is 23 years old, not arbitration eligible until 2019 and the Twins are on a tight budget.