Lowe to meet with Braves

Make no mistake, the Braves NEED to sign D Lowe. Their pitching was a shambles last season and at least Lowe is generally healthy and has never been on the DL to my knowledge.

Now that Tex is gone Mazz is focusing on Lowe. Why doesn't he talk about the Red Sox players like the recent aquisition of Smoltz or Baldelli.?Watch next year he is going to drive us nuts with Holliday.

um, Lowe has been on the DL several times in his career. While I would not call him an injury risk (ala AJ Burnett or Smoltz), to claim he has never been to the DL would be inaccurate.

I hope Dlowe pitches in Boston, standing O baby.

If rumors over the past 14 or so hours are true, Frank Wren needs to tender his resignation immediately! He has single handedly destryoed this team.

If rumors over the past 14 or so hours are true, Frank Wren needs to tender his resignation immediately! He has single handedly destryoed this team.

The Mets will make there finale offer but won't get into a bidding war over Derek Lowe, I think the reason Braves said earlier that they won't pay that much for Derek Lowe was they thinking that smoltz will come back, so know maybe Derek Lowe will get what he is asking for.

While Smoltz leaving is a big hit, hopefully it is the kick in the @$$ that Atlanta needed to finally go after Lowe, who i think is the pitcher they should have focused on to begin with. Next up MANNY!!

grimachi.....i agree with you whole heartedly!!

How the mighty have fallen......groveling to Derek Lowe.

Thanks, Frank

I have tickets in June to see the Sox play the Baves I wouldn't mind seeing Lowe come back for a visit. I always was a fan of D-Lowe.

Maybe the Sox don't want to spend that type of money on a 35-year old pitcher right now, but it seems like Lowe must've really ruffled feathers with his behavior when he was here. Didn't seem like they made much effort to keep him after '04 and doesn't seem like they made much effort this time around either. I think adding him to the current rotation would be a significant upgrade for the Sox and would be a more reliable arm (albeit more expensive) than Smoltz. Plus, he was money for the Sox in the post-season.... Also, some of the wanna be editors complaining about Maz's topics need to give it a rest. Lowe has Sox ties and word of new negotiations with Atlanta makes it newsworthy as did the press conference for Texeira the other day.

Smoltz was one of the best SP's/RP's in the NL for years but he is 41 and has never pitched in the AL (with DH). Here is hoping but I have my doubts.

Fire Frank Wren NOW!

There is no point to make signing for the Braves now. They are not going to be a contender with or without Lowe. Just accept it.

I would rather get more young prospects (they already got some of them, not big names but it is alright) and develop them.

I don’t think it is going to be a miserable team for the Braves in 2009. I believe they can try catching Marlins and being no. 3.

"um, Lowe has been on the DL several times in his career. While I would not call him an injury risk (ala AJ Burnett or Smoltz), to claim he has never been to the DL would be inaccurate."

Care to offer a few examples?

"Now that Tex is gone Mazz is focusing on Lowe. Why doesn't he talk about the Red Sox players like the recent aquisition of Smoltz or Baldelli.?Watch next year he is going to drive us nuts with Holliday."

Couldn't agree more about the overall sentiment. This is a Red Sox blog, not a former or future Red Sox blog. Let's talk about what the Red Sox are doing.

Mazz, Peter Gammons reported today in the Globe that the Brewers / Lowe rumor was floated out there by Borass and it's not true. What do you know that Peter doesn't?

Penny and Smoltz = This years version of Shill and Colon .

hey james h dlowe has never been on the dl by the way where is youf facts to back this claim up

But....Don't they have Gin Mills in Atlanta....????

I see a 4 year $52 mill offer getting thrown his way by Wren.. Boras has patiently waited for a team to truely NEED Lowe and the Braves are definately now in that boat from not only a personel standpoint but a public relations view as well. If the Braves try to "play" with Boras he will continue to wait patiently.

4 years at $50 - $52 mill should get it done !
With Lowe, Jurrgins, and Vasquez the Braves would at least have 3 guys who could get you 200 innning each and 12 - 16 wins. Add in a guy like Tommy Hanson, who has ACE written all over him, and the Braves may still suprise people next season.
Now about that OF bat and leadoff hitter.........Hmmmm

Christina -

You were a little too quick to criticize Mazz.
He has talked about the signing of Baldelli and Smoltz.
He wrote another article about them.
THIS is the article about Lowe.
It's not his only focus.

james, no he hasn't. 32+ starts every year since 2002 and from 1998-2001 he had at least 63 appearances out of the bullpen..he's the only active player who hasn't been on the DL (over 10 years or something)

Hey James how about filling us in on all those times Lowe has been on the DL.

I wonder if Baldelli was ever tested for Lyme disease. My mother had various
misdiagnoses for mysterious post-exercise muscle weakness (myasthenia gravis, etc etc. (debilitating, like Baldelli's) over a twenty- year period.
A new doc (after some urging) tried a course of antibiotics for Lyme which worked in a matter of days.
He's FROM Rhode Island, close to the original vector (Lyme, Connecticut)

Just a thought.

Hopefully Wren will do something on this deal, but the Braves still need another pitcher and at least one power hitter. Chipper can't do it all alone.

Derek Lowe is highly overated. If he will cheat on his wife, then how loyal is he going be to the Braves. Treated first wife lke dirt, could the Braves be next?