Mutiny Time?

He might be young and good-looking, but I'd rather he be good and old.

I was reading this article by Mark Bowman about the Braves and ran across this:

Before pitchers and catchers report to Disney's Wide World of Sports complex on Feb. 14, it appears Wren will be more likely to upgrade his starting rotation with the acquisition of Jon Garland or Andy Pettitte.

Pettite's fine, as I have already mentioned, but if Wren gets Garland, I will mutiny. I don't send emails to companies complaining about not having something, discontinuing something (EA Sports still needs to re-start their MVP Baseball video games), etc., but I will send one to Frank Wren about Jon Garland (probably just a copy and paste from this post). There is no good reason to get him, but he's been mentioned too often around the Braves' search for a starter to make me think it's not legitimate. He might be cheaper, but being cheaper doesn't mean he'll be worth anything. If we are just re-building and need a cheap option to throw out there, any of the minor-leaguers would probably be better. Don't do it, Frank.

Also, the article notes:

There's still absolutely no indication that the Braves are interested in revisiting trade talks for Peavy. As for Derek Lowe, it appears they may show more interest in him if his cost drops and he's willing to pitch for an annual salary of approximately $12 million.

Why on earth are you willing to spend 5 years and $80M on Burnett but not on Lowe? Age pretty much counts as injury issues, right? So, if you could get Lowe for 3/48 or 4/64, shouldn't you do it? I agree that 5/80 is probably too much, but the other two aren't necessarily. But I guess the Braves front-office knows something we don't. However, I refuse to believe they know the special cure for Garland's suckiness.