Comments on: Braves turn to the Fish

By: Braves Fan in Dawg Country

Braves Fan in Dawg Country — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:54:35 +0000

Oops, as soon as I posted, I realized that I had neglected in include our Asian players in my list of baseball players. I apologize to everyone. Wish I could go back and update my previous post. We are excited to have the best players and people possible as Braves, regardless of heritage or background. Go Braves!

By: Duke

Duke — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:31:14 +0000

Did the Braves bring up another catcher today? If Bobby didnt have to worry about going catcherless, Ross could pinch hit more. I dont know what his numbers are, but anecdotally he seems to always come up big when he’s pinch hitting. KK is great, and he has pitched in the pen some before in japan, surely he has a home here.

By: Duke

Duke — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:26:03 +0000

On the advice of counsel, I decline to comment at this time.

By: dunwoodybrave

dunwoodybrave — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:49:51 +0000

The Braves won’t trade KK. If they do, they know they might as well forget about every signing a player out of Japan. Ever.

By: Random

Random — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:57:33 +0000

flange1, Lew –

I’m tellin’ ya, bros — Kawakami will not be traded.

By: brent a.

brent a. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:50:02 +0000

DAP – I didn’t question why people were questioning the FO. I simply noted that I was not a participant in it.

By: Random

Random — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:43:50 +0000

one more from Will Carroll, Baseball Prospectus, 1 Sep: "... I was told early Monday evening that Jarrod Saltalamacchia was heading for surgery to correct thoracic outlet syndrome. T.R. Sullivan later said it was "50-50," so keep your eye on this. ... "

By: Random

Random — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:39:18 +0000

from Will Carroll, Baseball Prospectus, 1 Sep:

“Tim Hudson (9/1)
Hudson had a deliberately paced rehab, going slow so that he’d wait on the roster expansion, but also to make sure that he had enough stamina to be ready for the rotation. While some questioned me when I off-handedly said that Hudson was going to slot back into the rotation last week, there was little question of it in my mind. There’s simply no reason to work on stamina the way they did if the Braves just planned on putting him in the pen or shutting him down. The question was who would step aside for him, and it looks like in the short term that the answer is no one. There have been indications from Braves beat writers that the team will go with a six-man rotation, as this does give them the opportunity to limit the workloads of Tommy Hanson and Ken Kawakami. (Note that there are also indications that Kawakami will be lifted from the rotation immediately, though the Braves haven’t commented on this.) Hudson’s return from Tommy John isn’t as automatic as some will say, but I do expect he will be effective for this season and should head into 2010 as a “normal” pitcher.

“Nate McLouth (9/10)
The Braves got good news, relatively, on McLouth. Imaging showed that he’s merely set himself back to where he was, a tough Grade II strain in his hamstring rather than making it worse. McLouth is precisely the type of player that has to be protected from himself, and it appears he just went too hard, too soon in coming back from the strain. The early estimates that he’ll miss an additional week seem a bit optimistic given the setback. The team will have to be a bit more conservative this time around to make sure he doesn’t do it again (or make it worse). McLouth won’t have much problem once he does get back, but I’d expect it to be more like ten days to two weeks before that happens.”

By: Shamus Thacker

Shamus Thacker — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:22:20 +0000

RHR: My house overlooks a lake…does that count? I’ve never sprayed it on anyone though…”"

Whatever you do, don’t spray it in the lake! That’d spawn an outbreak of subdivisions as aggressive as kudzu…

By: Shamus Thacker

Shamus Thacker — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:15:52 +0000

Only yankees say buck-naked, it’s butt-nekkid in these parts..