Over the past couple of days, our man Fred has been looking at the possibility that the Braves could look to the Far East to bring in a new third baseman. Exhibit 1 is Jae-gyun Hwang from South Korea. Almost as quickly as he offered that suggestion, though, AJC Braves beat writer Dave O’Brien shot it down.
Well, it certainly wasn’t a terrible thought.
#2 was Japanese star Nobuhiro Matsu – probably a better choice than Hwang all the way around for reasons that Fred wrote about here. If the Braves were to look out-of-country for someone to man the hot corner, then this might be the way to go.