Do The Braves Really Need To Deal For a Power Hitter?

As we all know, for the greater part of this season, The Braves have struggled to provide much of any offense for their tremendous pitching staff. They have turned that around in the month of July.

As a team, the Braves are hitting .300 in the month of July. Is this just a fluke or can the Braves really keep this up for the rest of the second half? Frank Wren has about a week to decide if this hot streak is an odd flaw or something that the Braves will continue.

This all poses a huge question. Will the Braves acquire a power hitter, or better yet, do they even need one? Sure, having somebody like Adrian Gonzalez (doubt it) or Matt Holliday (very possible) would be great, but should we give up pitching and prospects to get them?

My opinion on a rental like Holliday is don't do it because you'd have to give up either Javy or plenty of pitching prospects, not to mention a promising outfielder like Cody Johnson or Jordan Schafer.

If it's for a guy like Gonzalez, who can hit for power and play great defense, I'm all for it even if it means bye-bye Javy or Todd Redmond. Heck, we might need to get rid of Freeman to get him, but who cares? It's Adrian Gonzalez.

Right now I think that the only rental that I would even consider giving prospects for is Jermaine Dye.

My list of guys I would give up prospects for is:

Jermaine Dye

Adrian Gonzalez

Adam Dunn (not too many though)

Nelson Cruz

Brad Hawpe

The only thing is all of these - aside from Adam Dunn - are way unrealistic because most of them other than Dunn and Gonzalez are playing on teams in the playoff hunt. Even Gonzalez is unlikely because of his youth and talent.

In my mind, any of the players on the aforementioned short list may not even be worth the prospects. If the offense continues to fire on all cylinders, the Braves don't need them.

Who knows? Only time will tell.