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Miami Dave
September 18th, 2012
2:53 pm
Let’s go Braves!
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
2:55 pm
Thanks for the work DOB!
GO BRAVES!!
JoshTown
September 18th, 2012
2:55 pm
Playin great! Keep it rollin!
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 18th, 2012
2:56 pm
Thanks, Chief!
Go Braves.
David from Athens, AL
September 18th, 2012
2:59 pm
Good write up David, thanks!
Brian from SC
September 18th, 2012
2:59 pm
I like where the Braves are right now. There’s really not much pressure on them at all. If things go really well, maybe there will be in a week. But for now, they’re loose and getting ready for the playoffs.
Virginia Brave Fan
September 18th, 2012
3:04 pm
Would really love to see Heyward get to 30 dingers and 20 sb.
the truth...
September 18th, 2012
3:04 pm
DOB….great interviews with the Hawk and Ozzie….shows how his comtemporaries respect and regard Chipper…………..
He will be missed……finding another like him that passes the test of time in this era is highly unlikely if not impossible.
Watching him Sunday night and thinking he’s almost done is sad for the Bravos….
Virginia Brave Fan
September 18th, 2012
3:04 pm
Would really love to see Heyward get to 30 dingers and 20 sb.
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
3:06 pm
There’s really not much pressure on them at all. If things go really well, maybe there will be in a week.
Get three back with nine to go, and then we can see what we will see.
Even getting swept, even cooling down some more, Nats really don’t feel any pressure with a 6-game lead. But hit some trouble this week while the Braves pile up some more wins? Then, it gets a little tougher to stand tall.
And regardless of how it played out, I’d love to see the Braves make ‘em sweat and tremble.
abeeeewright
September 18th, 2012
3:06 pm
Things always seem to work out by the end of the season, but with the possible number of tie-breaker games that the second wild card opens up, it will be interesting to see how MLB handles these extra games.
What if you had a tie for a division (hypothetically Washington and Atlanta), a three-way tie for the second wild card (LAD, STL, PHL for example). What a mess to work out before the NLDS!
As more play off spots open up with independent race conditions, an increasing number of tie-breaker games become likely.
Lemke's Knuckler
September 18th, 2012
3:07 pm
Brian from SC…”I like where the Braves are right now. There’s really not much pressure on them at all. If things go really well, maybe there will be in a week. But for now, they’re loose and getting ready for the playoffs.”
The Kiss of Death.
Murph
September 18th, 2012
3:08 pm
What’s the magic number for clinching a spot in the playoffs? The new double-wide wild card standings have me all confused.
abeeeewright
September 18th, 2012
3:09 pm
ESPN announcers were talking about how long before the Nats start to conserve innings for their key starters and get some rest for their regulars.
The longer the Braves put the pressure on, the longer the Nats have to run their starters out there.
Take this thing down to the last day.
Lemke's Knuckler
September 18th, 2012
3:11 pm
“As more play off spots open up with independent race conditions, an increasing number of tie-breaker games become likely.”
MLB will have to get away from playing games for tiebreakers and start going with tiebreaker rules based on head to head results, runs scored, etc, etc.
Ken Stallings
September 18th, 2012
3:11 pm
Ozzy was a valued Brave those years he played with us. Interesting to hear his comments on Chipper. People searching for something negative have pointed to the two divorces, but if divorce was a scandal then there’s a heap of company in that same scandal! I thought Chipper had the best line about all that when told how he can’t please everyone he quipped something along the lines of not making his two wives who divorced him happy! I got a big chuckle out of that one!
Murph
September 18th, 2012
3:11 pm
Michael Turner arrested for DWI? Tsk tsk tsk
Jeff R
September 18th, 2012
3:12 pm
To be honest with you, I’ll probably make a trip down to spring training at some point,” he [Chipper] said.
I don’t know if Chipper wants a formal role with the Braves at some point. But I’ve always thought that Chipper would make a superior roving hitting instructor. I think Braves’ prospects would really benefit from Chipper’s instruction.
Venice Jim
September 18th, 2012
3:13 pm
Murph – 7…
Brian from SC
September 18th, 2012
3:13 pm
Interesting…Simmons off today. Prado at SS, Constanze in left.
Tumbledown
September 18th, 2012
3:15 pm
Clearly, Fredi is to blame for Turner’s arrest!
phil
September 18th, 2012
3:16 pm
Only 14 more games…..sigh.
Still hard to believe Chipper is hanging em up.
Great piece, DOB.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 18th, 2012
3:16 pm
Atlanta Braves @Braves
Tonight’s lineup at MIA (7:10, SPSO/680AM/BRN): Bourn 8 Prado 6 Heyward 9 Jones 5 Freeman 3 Uggla 4 McCann 2 Constanza 7 Maholm 1
McCann’s back, Prado at SS, and Constanza joy!
Brian from SC
September 18th, 2012
3:17 pm
You really have to do it by individual teams.
The Braves’ magic number against each wild card contender is:
Cardinals – 8
Dodgers – 7
Brewers – 6
Pirates – 6
Phillies – 4
Diamondbacks – 4
Padres – 2
The Braves would have to fail to eliminate two of those teams to not make the playoffs.
Brian from SC
September 18th, 2012
3:18 pm
Washington’s magic number for the division is 11.
bravesgrl4life
September 18th, 2012
3:21 pm
Way to make me tear up, DOB. JK
Man these last games are going to be tough, knowing we’re down to the last few times we’ll ever see Chipper’s sweet swing every night or his quotes in the blog after almost every game.
I need to look into buying stock in Kleenex. Gonna need them for that last home series when I’ll be in a seat at Turner Field for every game.
raleighbravefan
September 18th, 2012
3:21 pm
DOB – Thanks for the new Blog. George will be pleased that you are back from vacation.
Tumbledown
September 18th, 2012
3:22 pm
Because the Braves won the regular season series with Cardinals, wouldn’t there magic number also be seven as to the Cardinals? But then, what if there was a three-way tie for the two spots. Yikes!
Arkansas Transplant
September 18th, 2012
3:23 pm
From previous blog…
It doesn’t get more flexible than that.
You just discribed several ways that flexibility will be eaten up, including raises, arbitration, and options. Not to mention the holes that will need to be filled. I’m not exactly sure how you come up with backwards when the team could possibly acquire a CFer that would be under team control for several years at a very minimium salary, all the while they will be possilby looking to extend players such as Heyward, Freeman, Prado, Kimbrel, Beachy, Medlen and possibly McCann. Not exactly sure how they plan on fitting those under the budget restraints even with the flexibility you stated they have this coming offseason if they spend at will by resigning Bourn and acquiring the other needs.
phil
September 18th, 2012
3:24 pm
Dave isn’t really back….
He just scanned in the quotes from those guys, hit send and hopped back on his bike after a quick stop by Wal-Mart….
Brian from SC
September 18th, 2012
3:27 pm
Tumbledown, the Braves’ tiebreaker for home field in a wild card playoff game vis-a-vis the Cardinals is 7. But ties for the second wild card are broken with a one-game playoff. So the magic number to make the playoffs vis-a-vis the Cardinals is 8.
cricket
September 18th, 2012
3:28 pm
McCann’s back, Prado at SS, and Constanza joy!
i’m just glad Rev is not there
seriously tho, is simmons ok? why is prado at SS?
Brian from SC
September 18th, 2012
3:28 pm
Yunel suspended three games. Like anyone cares. He probably appreciates the days off.
cricket
September 18th, 2012
3:31 pm
He probably appreciates the days off.
may be not if unpaid
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
3:31 pm
Constanze in left.
Good grief. Like gum on a shoe, you just can’t get rid of that ****.
raleighbravefan
September 18th, 2012
3:32 pm
Marriage is tough. The travel schedule (absence from home) for an MLBer makes it a lot tougher. Celebrity status also complicates things. It’s a wonder a lot more pro athletes don’t have failed marriages.
Sopheee
September 18th, 2012
3:34 pm
‘teen ‘teen at short? No me gusta.
raleighbravefan
September 18th, 2012
3:38 pm
Careful, scoots. You are risking the wrath of the Georgiephiles. They will hunt you down. You may need to change your name, like our friend from VA did.
Murph
September 18th, 2012
3:38 pm
Yunel deserves his fate of rotting away in almost complete obscurity in Canada. I laugh every time I think of him getting his paycheck with Canadian taxes taken out of it.
Have another helping of poutine, Yunel.
the truth...
September 18th, 2012
3:39 pm
Glavine and Smoltz also went down the divorce road, like many of us I suspect.
David O'Brien
September 18th, 2012
3:40 pm
Braves lineup: Bourn cf, Prado ss, Heyward rf, Jones 3b, Freeman 1b, Uggla 2b, McCann c, Constanza lf, Maholm p
Sopheee
September 18th, 2012
3:42 pm
scoots can take ‘em all. Give ‘em hell.
the truth...
September 18th, 2012
3:42 pm
DOB….why Simmons down? he just had 2 months off then 2 days last week?
cricket
September 18th, 2012
3:42 pm
DOB – any idea why simmons is not in? hope he’s ok health wise.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 18th, 2012
3:44 pm
Yunel’s punishment’s too short. Give him Melky’s punishment.
‘teen ‘teen at short? No me gusta.
Co-sign. Where’s the Rev?
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
3:44 pm
You just discribed several ways that flexibility will be eaten up, including raises, arbitration, and options. Not to mention the holes that will need to be filled. I’m not exactly sure how you come up with backwards when the team could possibly acquire a CFer that would be under team control for several years at a very minimium salary
Perhaps this will clear it up for you… The team has a minimum of $20M or a maximum of $35M to spend this off-season and no long term commitments to any players save 1.
Given that fact, how do you describe this team as having limited funds or “budget restraints”? They have more financial flexibility than any other team in the majors this off-season.
If the team wants to acquire a platoon CF on the cheap, fine. But if that is the path they choose, it is decidedly not because they are financially constrained.
Not exactly sure how they plan on fitting those under the budget restraints even with the flexibility you stated they have this coming offseason if they spend at will by resigning Bourn and acquiring the other needs.
Out of curiosity, could you explain to me what you believe the salary structure would be for young player contract extensions? Let’s start with an assumption that they extend Freeman, Heyward, Prado and Kimbrel. How do you think those contract extensions for each player will look?
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
3:45 pm
Last 9 Starts of the Starting 9
_________AVG__OBP__SLG___OPS_wOBA_L9S9+
Bourn__ .135 .220 .162 0.382 .188 ___10
Prado__ .405 .421 .432 0.853 .397 __144
Heyward .222 .282 .417 0.699 .303 ___98
Chipper .258 .361 .258 0.619 .280 ___78
Freeman .303 .368 .515 0.884 .357 __150
Uggla__ .333 .474 .500 0.974 .434 __178
McCann_ .219 .257 .438 0.695 .291 ___96
Biff___ .200 .294 .233 0.527 .231 ___52
Maholm_ .105 .105 .105 0.211 .090 __-40
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
3:49 pm
Yunel is wasting talent. Every once in a generation you get talented guys who are fine examples of intangibles jacking up a career. Once in every 4 generations you get a Meltdown Bradley
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 18th, 2012
3:49 pm
Prado, Freeman, and Uggla the only guys looking great lately. Chipper’s done okay. But Biff! The MVP! Geez.
Tami
September 18th, 2012
3:50 pm
Jeff R
September 18th, 2012
3:12 pm
To be honest with you, I’ll probably make a trip down to spring training at some point,” he [Chipper] said.
I don’t know if Chipper wants a formal role with the Braves at some point. But I’ve always thought that Chipper would make a superior roving hitting instructor. I think Braves’ prospects would really benefit from Chipper’s instruction.
Ditto! So many folks, inside MLB and fans alike, agree!
Threadkiller
September 18th, 2012
3:51 pm
Don’t let Shaun read this!
Bowa told host Chris Russo that he met general manager Jeff Luhnow and Crane in the process. Bowa sees value in Luhnow’s sabermetric approach but told Russo that there’s more to the game than the numbers can tell you
phil
September 18th, 2012
3:52 pm
RIP Steve Sabol…
AZBravoFan
September 18th, 2012
3:54 pm
Nice to see Eovaldi’s numbers on first pitches. Look for a big day from Freeman!
Arkansas Transplant
September 18th, 2012
3:58 pm
How do you think those contract extensions for each player will look?
How exactly would I know what they would agree on, hard to say since we don’t know length. I mean you keep stating that we have no long term commitments to any players save 1 but do you seriously believe they are going to allow everyone else to walk? Just because we don’t necessarily have someone signed to a long term contract doesn’t mean we don’t have long term commitments or desires to keep them around. Who are you expecting not to be back next season? Or better yet, after next season?
In my opinion, what good is it to use this year’s flex when it handicaps you from keeping our young core of players? I’d rather the team not look at this offseason as a time to just spend.. but a time to spend wisely looking past just this coming next season.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 18th, 2012
4:04 pm
keithlaw @keithlaw
Yes, HE says that. RT @kwakaryk: Via Shi Davidi, “Yunel says his gay friends not offended, different understanding in Latin for the word”
Yunel, Yunel…. sigh. And besides, I thought he spoke Spanish, not Latin
Bat Masterson
September 18th, 2012
4:05 pm
I don’t know much about him but Mike Rowe seems like an interesting guy.
Donald Trump on the other hand, well I know way too much about him and he is decidedly uninteresting. I will be so happy when NBC cancels that stupid show of his so that their affiliates like CNBC will not have to interview him any more. I mean why else would they treat him as if he were a serious person or as if his opinion carried any weight.
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
4:08 pm
but do you seriously believe they are going to allow everyone else to walk?
That really is an irrelevant point. Let any one walk? You understand right? That when there are no contracts committed to in future years, it leaves open a door of financial flexibility. Take the opposite view, the Dodgers have limited financial flexibility this winter what, with nearly $200M committed to payroll already.
Why do I ask you about the structure of the extensions? Because your hysteria over payroll restraints seems to be based on a strange view that any and all contract extensions will take away from the money they have available this off-season… Why would the team sign a player to an extension and in so doing, vastly over pay what they would have paid them without the extension? A contract extension for a young player is about the team assuming the risk so the player has stability. Extend Heyward. His first years of his contract will be in line with what he would have received without an extension… possibly even less. Any FA years covered in the extension will be at higher values. It’s the way every one of these works.
Now, knowing that, the team has the financial flexibility to extend players, sign whom they choose and go on with life. The biggest pitfall for this team is over paying for a FA player in terms of years.
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
4:13 pm
In my opinion, what good is it to use this year’s flex when it handicaps you from keeping our young core of players?
I don’t think signing a player this off-season, within reason of course, is going to handicap keeping the young guys around.
Give Bourn $18M a year for 7 years, and the rotation is going to be neglected real fast. But if they can sign a player for 4 years, 5 years max… It will have no impact on contract extensions. It will not be until at least 4 years out when those extensions start having high values.
Put another way, they will not be extending Heyward this off-season so they can pay him $10M next season. I want Heyward to stick around, but there is no reason for paying him more than he’d make in arbitration.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 18th, 2012
4:17 pm
David O’Brien @ajcbraves
#Braves SS Simmons out of lineup with sore left shoulder after diving for ball Monday.
Wuss…..
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:22 pm
Bowa sees value in Luhnow’s sabermetric approach but told Russo that there’s more to the game than the numbers can tell you
Ah, Bo is just some old dinosaur geezer, whaddya expect?
scoots can take ‘em all. Give ‘em hell.
Sumbees better pack a lunch, is all I got to say.
Venice Jim
September 18th, 2012
4:22 pm
Kevin Burkhardt @KBurkhardtSNY
Rain out. Makeup on Thurs night for Mets-Phils
nolie
September 18th, 2012
4:23 pm
the onliest baseball players who ain’t wusses is catchers
Arkansas Transplant
September 18th, 2012
4:23 pm
the Dodgers have limited financial flexibility this winter what, with nearly $200M committed to payroll already.
You seriously see a $200m budget as limited? Personally, I see the $85m buget that the Braves are subject to as a limited budget.
That when there are no contracts committed to in future years, it leaves open a door of financial flexibility.
Heyward, Freeman, Kimbrel, Venters, Hanson, Beachy, Medlen and the list goes on… just because the team does not have contracts committed to these players does not mean they don’t get paid and I’d also bet the team is committed to trying to keep this players into the future.
that any and all contract extensions will take away from the money they have available this off-season
That’s exactly what it does, but as I stated before, whoever you sign to an extended contract is going to affect you past just this offseason and I’d rather be in position where we could retain our present young players rather than see one of them walk because we decided we had all of this payroll space next season and signed Bourn for 6 years at 16 million a year, which left us no room for them.
That really is an irrelevant point.
Pretty much sense this whole debate started over the fact that I stated I’d like to see them acquire Gentry who I think would be a great addition in CF, plus allow us to go big on another position.
cricket
September 18th, 2012
4:24 pm
slide leading with feet..dive on right shoulder..Fredi is clearly not emphasizing basics..
Heisenberg
September 18th, 2012
4:25 pm
- tp
*********************************
If you could buy out a 3 or more years of free agency, it would justify a slight overpay early in the contract. The young player gets a bonus and more money now in exchange the club get longer control at a lower cost on the end of the deal. This is what Cubs did with Castro. Everybody wins – except Scott Boras.
Yes Way Josè
September 18th, 2012
4:25 pm
Simmons is soft.
Arkansas Transplant
September 18th, 2012
4:26 pm
I want Heyward to stick around, but there is no reason for paying him more than he’d make in arbitration.
I never indicated anything different.
smallmouth6
September 18th, 2012
4:26 pm
Glad to see Constanza in the lineup. People who actually pay attention to the game know he brings lots of assets.
cricket
September 18th, 2012
4:28 pm
this is insane – Matt Bryant: The Alligator Whisperer
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-falcons-blog/2012/09/15/matt-bryant-the-alligator-whisperer/
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:31 pm
the onliest baseball players who ain’t wusses is catchers
Maybe so, but only pitchers are pretty.
Arkansas Transplant
September 18th, 2012
4:32 pm
And I’m not exactly sure how having a CFer who won’t be a free agent until 2017 is a bad thing, specially if he fits your needs.. great defense, great baserunning skills, great speed, very good .obp, right handed
RC
September 18th, 2012
4:32 pm
the Dodgers have limited financial flexibility this winter what, with nearly $200M committed to payroll already.
You seriously see a $200m budget as limited? Personally, I see the $85m buget that the Braves are subject to as a limited budget.
I think the key word in that first statement is “flexibility”. It doesn’t matter if you have a $1 billion budget, if you’ve already spent $999 million of it, you would have limited financial “flexibility”.
cricket
September 18th, 2012
4:32 pm
blog contest – point out number of assets georgie brings to today’s game and win a kissed bat
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:33 pm
and win a kissed bat
That’s “licked” bat, cricket, “licked”!
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:35 pm
great defense, great baserunning skills, great speed, very good .obp, right handed
AT, I have to say, I don’t know how a 28-year-old, in-his-prime player with that skillset has managed to go unnoticed.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 18th, 2012
4:38 pm
Glad to see Constanza in the lineup. People who actually pay attention to the game know he brings lots of assets.
Murph
September 18th, 2012
4:38 pm
blog contest – point out number of assets georgie brings to today’s game and win a kissed bat
1. Every time I read his name I think of George Constanza and “shrimp store” episode
2. I also hear, in my head, “there was shrinkage!” every time he comes up to bat
3. It makes scoots mad whenever he starts, and I think that’s kinda funny, although I can’t explain why
4. Despite having questionable MLB-level skills, the team seems to win when he plays
cricket
September 18th, 2012
4:38 pm
darn it scoots, looks like i start at -1..
this is what happens when one is actually working while posting nonsense here..
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
4:39 pm
I’m not exactly sure how having a CFer who won’t be a free agent until 2017 is a bad thing
Who said he was. I am merely pointing out that acquiring that platoon player is not a necessity born of financial restraints.
“The Dodgers have limited financial flexibility this winter what, with nearly $200M committed to payroll already.”
You seriously see a $200m budget as limited
Actually, what I said was “The Dodgers have limited financial flexibility this winter.” Let’s rephrase this so you can understand it: The Dodgers have committed 99% of their 2013 payroll already… leaving them little room to do anything major this winter. i.e. the Dodgers have limited financial flexibility this winter.
RC
September 18th, 2012
4:42 pm
1. Every time I read his name I think of George Constanza and “shrimp store” episode
2. I also hear, in my head, “there was shrinkage!” every time he comes up to bat
3. It makes scoots mad whenever he starts, and I think that’s kinda funny, although I can’t explain why
4. Despite having questionable MLB-level skills, the team seems to win when he plays
His presence in the lineup, if in place of Jason Heyward, causes Shaun to flip out and start blowing circuits like the computer at the end of “War Games”.
Arkansas Transplant
September 18th, 2012
4:42 pm
ncscoots, one way is.. he played through his entire college career plus had TJ surgery along the way. That kinda helps you fly under the radar.
REMLEY
September 18th, 2012
4:42 pm
As Sinatra once sang the “days dwindle down to a precious few”. Gonna miss Chipper badly.
TennesseePaul
September 18th, 2012
4:42 pm
I never indicated anything different.
Excellent. Then you agree that the team can sign a player this off-season and still have the flexibility to extend the young players they wish… In short, you would agree that there is no budget restraint this offseason.
Frankie
September 18th, 2012
4:42 pm
Dempster and Malholm on the bump tonight. I hope the Rangers flame out this postseason only appropriate that the baseball God’s don’t reward my boy Dempster for waffling at the trade line. Still, get past the WC game would have been huge seeing Dempster in a Braves uniform taking the ball for Game 2. Malholm is a recipe for disaster if he pitches in playoffs.
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:43 pm
It makes scoots mad whenever he starts, and I think that’s kinda funny, although I can’t explain why
I’m always happy to provide you with entertainment, Murph. Indeed, I live for it. It saddens me that a ML baseball field has to be defiled by the presence of Constanza to do it, though.
Yes Way Josè
September 18th, 2012
4:45 pm
Let Bourn walk next season and make Georgie the everyday CF. He’s such a catalyst and asset.
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:46 pm
His presence in the lineup, if in place of Jason Heyward, causes Shaun to flip out and start blowing circuits like the computer at the end of “War Games”.
I’d start a ballgirl instead of Constanza, so replacing an actual major leaguer with him is bound to get some negative reaction, LOL.
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:47 pm
Let Bourn walk next season and make Georgie the everyday CF
Sorry, he makes even Craig Gentry look good.
cricket
September 18th, 2012
4:48 pm
Murph leads with 4 but RC is emotional favorite leading to vivid picture of Shaun-bot blowing his circuitry
Frankie
September 18th, 2012
4:49 pm
Couple easy games the next two nights one way or the other. Give Kimmie some rest so he can put the nail in the Philly coffin this weekend with a couple of saves.
Braves better play these weekend games like they are the ones chasing down a wildcard berth.
Bobby Hill
September 18th, 2012
4:49 pm
I think its fair to say that because the team has very few long term financial commitments that the team holds a great deal of financial flexibility, but that does not necessarily equate to “money to spend.”
Most of the next year’s payroll has already bee earmarked for players currently on the roster, even if contracts haven’t actually been extended yet. Its possible that the team may be able to save a little money by extending guys like Heyward, Freeman, Kimbrel, etc, just as the team did with McCann years ago. But lets not forget that the Braves offered the same extension to Frenchy. How would that have worked out?
You can’t pretend that signing a couple of these guys long term wouldn’t effect the way the team addresses their other needs. None of these decisions is made in a vaccuum.
REMLEY
September 18th, 2012
4:50 pm
Bobby sure knew how to judge human nature, he new Yunel was going to be a cancer in the clubhouse.
cricket
September 18th, 2012
4:50 pm
i was going to say that all these comments pretty much ensure that georgie is going to hit for cycle today..but couldn’t say it
ncscoots
September 18th, 2012
4:50 pm
Murph leads with 4 but RC is emotional favorite
Yes, RC making up ground via the audience vote.
David O'Brien
September 18th, 2012
4:50 pm
Simmons has a sore left shoulder from landing on it when he made diving play up the middle last night. Day-to-day.
REMLEY
September 18th, 2012
4:52 pm
Hurry back Simmons!
AZBravoFan
September 18th, 2012
4:52 pm
DOB, do you see any reason to put Hinske on the post-season roster at this point? He looks completely lost at the plate, and we can’t even start him to get some AB’s because he’s such a liability in the field now. Maybe you could make a case for having him on the WS roster to DH, but even then it’s a stretch. Love the guy but looks like he’s going to fall victim to Fredi’s new “sense of urgency” managing style. (which I like) Bobby would probably still be running him out there.
Arkansas Transplant
September 18th, 2012
4:52 pm
In short, you would agree that there is no budget restraint this offseason.
Did I directly say we had budget restraints “this” offseason? Or just in general?
Efrim
September 18th, 2012
4:54 pm
Dodgers have $193 million already committed to guaranteed contracts for the 2013 season. This does not include 1st year arbitration to AJ Ellis and minimum salaried contracts.
If they do sign a guy like Zack Greinke this offseason, I’d bet that contract is backloaded.
Fredo
September 18th, 2012
4:55 pm
Wonder if Eovaldi will stick to his own scouting report for this game, “Eovaldi gets in trouble with command. He has 42 walks in 99 1/3 innings”
if the Braves are as patient with this guy as they were with Gio, could be a long night for him