Enemy Watch: Braves will look into a trade for Peavy!

He's 27 years old, was a unanimous winner of the 2007 NL Cy Young Award, has averaged 192 innings and 194 strikeouts in six full seasons in the majors, and is under contract through 2011.

I don't know, but it seems like the only way Jake Peavy could be a more perfect fit for the pitching-hungry Braves would be if he were a native Southerner. What's that? He was born in, raised in, and still lives in Alabama? Well, hell, then what's the holdup? Get that boy in a Braves uni, stat. OK, so it's not going to be that easy. But for all the denizens out there who believe your Braves don't have a chance of prying Peavy out of San Diego and bringing home this native son -- hey, he's practically that -- to pitch in Atlanta, well, don't be so quick to dimiss the notion.

The Braves are holding organizational meetings this week at Dark Star (aka Lake Buena Vista, Fla.) and you can bet that Peavy's name is going to be discussed, as in, how serious are the Padres about the possibility of trading him, and what will they want in return?

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution