Braves trade Hanson to Angels, cut ties with Jurrjens

Mark….so you want OBP guys and contact hitters? What good does a run here or there do if you have no one else to drive them in? Speed + Power gives you the option to come from behind in games or create a big lead. Not to mention a better chance on defense. I’ll take 3 30/20 guys any day all day over 1 or 2 9/20 guys.

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Golden

We already have too many swing for the fences type guys. Too many Ks. Have to have some guys to get on base and move runners. Thats why during games last year so many times many on the blog wanted Prado up rather than the big boppers. Have to have some balance.

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I get the balanced approach, but a guy like bourn all of a sudden turned into a strikeout machine last year. All I’m saying is it can happen to anyone even a Marco Scutaro type at one point or another in someones career. If that is going to happen I would much rather have a Masher with Speed. My 2 cents. The glaring weakness on this team for YEARS has been Power and Speed. It’s time we change that. I dn’t think 1 or 2 OBP guys do that. I don’t buy into that at all.

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We shall see…you haven’t even seen Upton play in ATL yet. Give him a chance.

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Why all the worrying about another outfielder? We sill have Jordan Schafer , dont we?

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@Golden Sombreros Give it up with Mark. If every player was over 35 and slow as a turtle then he would be happy. Have Wren make the deal. Win the WS and mark would still not be happy.

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that is the baggage I was talking about, but he was with the Braves still when he got caught down in Florida with the marijuans

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Swisher would be a great addition if Wren could talk him into playing left instead of right. Plus he could give Freeman a break at first every once in a while. Has a big bat with power, over 30 hrs a year for last 4 or 5 years.

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Swisher-Too old, too much Yankee- Not a good fit on a young team

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No to Swisher…No to Ludwick…No to Pagan…No to Ross…No to Victorino….let’s get some young power + speed guys on this team please!!!! Tired of the same ol same ol. Time to mix it up!

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Speed + Power….Pastor doesnt fit the bill and honstly aftering seeing him last year….He is nothing more than a AAAA player to me.

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Get Justin Upton, Trade for Headley, Prado at short. Resign Johnson,and Durbin. Lets play ball win the WS and kill all the critics.

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Don’t forget Dale Murphy made move from behind the plate to outfield. Guess we could trade for Mauer from Twins. They are shopping him around. By the way there is no quad A in baseball only in high school sports. Given chance Pastornicky might turn out to be good player plus he could hit leadoff with his speed.

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Don’t forget Dale Murphy made move from behind the plate to outfield. Guess we could trade for Mauer from Twins. They are shopping him around. By the way there is no quad A in baseball only in high school sports. Given chance Pastornicky might turn out to be good player plus he could hit leadoff with his speed.

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Schaffer-dopehead victorino-old and too much Phillie. GET UPTON NOW!!!!

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Reading some of these suggestions makes me realize why the in-season bloggers are all absent.

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Braves can not afford Upton and Headley. Everyone knows that. Braves don’t have enough blue chip players to trade for them. Only move of these two that would help would be bringing Headley into the lineup. Great glove, big bat and doesn’t strike out as much as Upton brothers, Uggla or Heyward. We need a contact player not a free swinger who misses way too much.

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Thanks Skeeter

A breath of fresh air and reason. I was beginning to lose it!

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Yea..As much as Everyone would love getting both Justin Upton and Chase Headley I don’t ever see tha thappening. One of them sure, but not both. I need to see another year like that from Chase to be convinced. Everyone is ready to kiss his feet because of the year he just had, but let him do that for back to back years and I will be a believer. J-Upton has proved what he can do even when he has a bad year it isn’t that “Bad”.

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maybe this is the year that Liberty Media wants to sell, and they are willing to let Wren spend a little more to put together a decent team so they can get more for the team, remember they can sell with taxes and they may want to make the move now and avoid repurcussions from Obama who wants to raise taxes

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I like the Rajai Davis idea for our last starting position because it saves our SP depth. Although if a J Upton trade not involving Simmons or Heyward comes up I’d listen.

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Mark, you mean those pesimistic in-season bloggers that didn’t notice our scrappy mid-payroll team made the playoffs?

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Victirino is 32 and will be platooned with Schaffer. When you are 11 years old 32 must seem ancient.
Do you remember how you loved a 40 year old player last season?

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You take your old men to “The Field of Dreams” and I will take my kids all the way to the WS. This was a good signing, LIVE WITH IT. Now go get his bother. Save all the old men for the Yankeesw or your “Field of Dreams”

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Tommy Boggs Remember I was not the one flirting with a 15year old girl Now who is the jerk. You must be 2 if 15 turns yuo on.

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Having brothers has not helped the Braves. Already been tried three times already with the Niekros, Mahrers and the Aarons. Won’t happen again. One will get mad if the crowd is on the other for not trying hard enough.

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I’ll hang my hat on last year’s team. That was a great squad and I can’t help it that they’ve made a bad playoff format that will only last a few years at most.

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Skeeter

Again with some reason. Of course I hope it sinks in to some on here better coming from you than it did me earlier. Also, the Alous.

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Sign a veteran to man left field. Braves organization has two good players in the minors who will be ready in 2014. 32 y.o. does not make you old by the way. Ricky Henderson still had lots of speed even in his early 40’s. Plus he didn’t strike out as much as the youth you have mentioned for being on the Braves (ie J.Upton).

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Yeah that was the problem I;m sure – The format.

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Many Braves blggers like the Ugglas of the world for some reason. Striking out 1 out of every 3 ABs don’t bother them as long as they hit a HR 1 every 25 ABs.

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I think talent wins out over experience if the experience is old and less capable than the talent. I have always thought Victorino is a good player but it seems he is in serious decline and will be over priced for what we’d get. BJ Upton has had great postseason numbers and Heyward and Freeman are stepping into leadership roles now. They will lead by example because they are hungry to play at a high level. I’m loving the movement to get younger and faster by the Braves. I really hope we don’t trade Simmons because the Braves will have plus defense from SS and CF which are the two most important positions to defend well. Simmons gives us an elite defensive SS that should be a perennial Gold Glove and All-Star contender.

Rather than overpaying Victorino who will get north of $10 Million per year it might be smarter to sign Kyle Lohse or Sanchez to be our #3 Starter and be able to trade Delgado or Teheran for Wil Myers or even go after Stanton from Florida and have an outfield set for the next 4 to 5 years. We’d be trading the years we’d have Delgado or Teheran for the years we’d have Stanton or Myers and have a proven major league pitcher to keep us in games every 5 days.

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Mark, you just traded your two most major league ready shortstops to the Diamondbacks for Justin Upton. What are you going to do now? You won’t be going to Disney World!

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Amber Girl why are you letting Tommy Boggs get to you? Not worth it…. I like your ideas about keeping the agenda to make the Braves younger and faster. Let’s sign athletes with great baseball skills and IQ’s.

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Wig Wam

You lost me buddy????

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What is a pedohile?
You are no longer considered a candidate for the T-shirt shooting job.
Please go back to the Justin Beiber blog.

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Since we are gonna stay young lets just trade for Trout too. While we are at it lets get Harper. I’m sure they’ll send them to us for little of nothing.

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John Schuerholz would disagree with you. He always brought on veterans with experience. Maybe that is why the Braves owned the 90’s and early 2000’s.

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Brves may have “owned th 90’s and early 2000’s, but look at all the disappointment they had in the postseason. Mainly due to lack of production from dynamic players. Anyone that has watched the Braves at least from the 80’s knows what I’m talking about. Time to change things up and get athletic and young.

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What’s interesting about Amber Girl is that she signs off around 7:30 to 8:00 most nights to go to sleep but that’s mid-day in New South Wales. So she goes to bed around noon to 1 P.M local time. Very early bed time for a 15 year old. Hmmmmm???????

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Haha thanks for the laugh!

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No one flirted with Amber Girl. Amber Girl knows nothing about baseball. Amber girl has been removed from the list of T-Shirt shooters.
Mark Richt is still on the list. So is Justin Beiber. Amber Girl is excited about Justin Beiber.

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Amber Girl
November 28th, 2012
8:51 pm

Thanks for chating everyone. Sleepy time. Good nite from New South Wales. Go Braves!!!!

Just one of many posts from Amber Girl signing off with “Sleepy Time”. I’m in central time in Nashville so this is 7:51 for me.

I just checked on the local time in New South Wales and its around 2:25 P.M. on Sunday so that means they are 17 hours ahead of us or 16 hours ahead of Atlanta. Very interesting to me that she usually goes to sleep in the middle of the day even on weekdays. No school Amber?

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So that last post that I cut and pasted from Amber had her going to bed at 12:51 in the afternoon. I’m starting to agree that Amber Girl is a dude in a recliner in Georgia getting a lot of entertainment from a fictional character he created.

Either way I agree with you Mark and let’s keep the blog to Baseball…

Wow, wow and wow…

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Victorino might be exactly what the Braves need. Don’t forget about Grissom and Nixon.

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Golden Sombreros yes it is funny about Amber. I guess he’ll have to create a new character to entertain himself. HaHa…..

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one of the most exciting players i saw that Schuerholtz got was a player he got for nothing, and he was the spark plug that made the pitching staff on that 91 team and that was Greg Olson an he was a exciting player, not a superstar, but the player that pulled that 91 Braves pitching staff together, they only had one veteran pitcher, and that was Charlie Liebrandt, the guy who got the blame for losing the world series, but without him the Braves would not have made it to the world series, he was the veteran that that young pitching staff needed to lead them to the world series

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Amber girl.. I do want to talk baseball and have enjoyed some of your posts on this blog. Remember your the one who took the subject off of baseball.

Glad your a Braves fan no matter who or where you are.

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Good ol Charlie Liebrandt….Pitched as a Lefty and Hit as a Righty. Just like me! Like I said though basball as a sport is changing. Just like football. You cant expect the same results from the same constructed teams. I know some things never change, but just getting one unnamed player who has no superstar potential, but rather the look of someone who would sell you tires is an extreme shot in the dark of that ever having any true impact. You NEVER know what you get with those players. I think any Braves fan would agree that we were simply destined to have a good run with the fortune of all that young great pitching and “good enough” players to back those pitchers up.

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What is all this verteran talk? You can be young and still be a “veteran” with experience. BJ has been in the MLB system for 8 years now. B-Mac has been in the playoffs. Tim Hudson has been in the playoffs. We have verteran players. That is a tired argument. Just because people advocate for “younger” plyers doesn’t mean we mean players straight out of HS that are over hyped. Look at the type of player Trout is….would you call him experienced? I mean yea he’s a phenom, but thats the point.

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