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By: AlabamaBrave

AlabamaBrave — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:43:24 +0000

abudefdef

August 1st, 2009
10:07 am
All you Chipper Bashers—who is a better switch hitter in MLB history?

Mickey Mantle

By: abudefdef

abudefdef — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:32:32 +0000

Oh yeah, and KJ sis batting .348 over his last 10 games, with 2 Dbls, 1 Trpl, 3 HRs, 8 RBIs…and Kawakami pitched well, 4 hits over 7 inn against a VERY good lineup…BRING IT ON PHILLY!

By: abudefdef

abudefdef — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:30:31 +0000

hey philly fanatic…how about that 7.5 game lead over the Braves dropping to 5.5 games…over the past 2 days?

Looking forward to this upcoming weekend in Atlanta…Phillies bettter be careful or that series may drop them OUT of 1st in the NL East…Fish and Bravos are closing the gap!

KEEP THE FAITH BRAVES NATION!
Keep the faith

****WHOOOOOOOOAAAAAAOOOO WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAOOOOOO****

***TOMAHAWK-A-CHOPPIN***

By: GaCracker

GaCracker — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:09:04 +0000

What will it take to get Joe Torre as our manager and retire Bobby – or let the Nationals have him? He is a “formuala” manajor”. Why doesn’t he allow each relief pitcher to remain until he is tired or ineffective. Why must he always play “setup” and “closer”? If Soriano didn’t have good stuff, why didn’t he tell Bobby and get his ass out of the game?

By: fieldofdreams

fieldofdreams — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:47:58 +0000

Ethier ends every hope. Stick a fork in ‘em, they’re officially done. We wasted a lot of great pitching on Kelly Johnson, Jeff Francouer, Jordan Schaefer, and Kenshin Kawakami. No speed, no power. No playoffs.

By: mike w

mike w — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:09:09 +0000

as a long time braves fan im ashamed of how people complain about everything. wren can do nothing right according to some on this site. cant we just support our team instead of always finding something to complain about. this is our team, theirs some cities without a team. were lucky in the sense we have a team. a great team. the real (americas team).

By: rick in jerusalem

rick in jerusalem — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:12:43 +0000

Trade Chipper? To who?
Word gets around when them fastballs are strikes instead of doubles and homers. Chipper used to wait for his pitch–now he looks like he’s going up there thinking walk first. Things are getting back to the preBonds normal career trajectory, and 37 year olds no longer hit fastballs like they did when they were thirty (See Ordonez and Helton power numbers among others)

As far as Kotchman goes, good riddance. First base is a power position and if you dont hit homers you need to hit hit 320, not 280. LaRoche will hit like he always does when he quits thinkin and starts counting down to deer season. CK has found his ideal role–late inning defensive replacement for a guy who can actually hit like a first baseman

Now to get rid of that other “professional hitter” who cant wait to cash that last check and move on. Maybe they’d OK putting one of those little concrete statues in left field with a glove on it’s hand. At least we’d be saved the embarrassment of seeing an OF WALK to pick up a ball after failing to back up a grounder in the hole

Some guy named Keith Law rates the Braves farm system #3 in the majors. Heyward, Freeman and…Diory Hernandez?????? Look at the farm stats. A Miss pitcher–Cofield I think–started the AllStar game. Whopeee he’s got more walks than Ks and not a lot of either. Hicks cant hit AA, Schafer apparently cant play at all, and Norton is the only thing saving Diory from being the worst hitter in the majors. Dont say Canizares. He has never drawn a walk that wasnt intentional and cant play D like Frenchy. Plus he’s fat

Tim Hudson ought to be back in time to finish wasting Kris Medlens age 23 season

I dont care much about football. Id take up hunting but I doubt that chain–smoking is a plus when stalking deer

By: DMac

DMac — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:14:12 +0000

The Cox supporters are the ones out of touch with reality. That guy has lost more games in October than I want to remember. He’d also rather start a .225 hitting veteran than a .325 hitting kid. Any real owner would have fired him years ago, but that’s the problem with this club. They don’t have a real owner. They are owned by a corporation that could not care less about winning. They simply want a tax write-off. Until the team gets a real owner, they will continue to flail about in mediocrity.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:29:14 +0000

It’s useless, and sad to see a team look so tired, and which beyond the 6th inning they’re out of the game, they look burn out, mostly Chipper and Anderson, really whole team, just not as bad, as the these two senior. Even McCann isn’t doing a very good job batting or behind the plate, Diaz is striking out too many time, he has taken over for Johnson in that category.
From this side of the ball park, there is no cure for the Braves, this year or next, and as for the future, well ?
With Cox repeating the same mistake over and over again, it’s useless to try to find any hope for the Braves.
Old Chipper said they have the player to win, and I say maybe, but not without another the manager, hitting coach, or general manager, outside of that, and throw in two or three quality, players, they might have a change.

By: Wish we had more PROSPECTS

Wish we had more PROSPECTS — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:00:46 +0000

Teixeira deal, “worst deal in MLB history”:

ab avg hr rbi obp slg
SS Andrus 280 .264 4 19 .319 .364
SS Escobar 331 .305 11 58 .370 .471
*Obviously Andrus is 6 years younger, but Yunel would have blocked up SS to where Andrus most likely wouldn’t have been used. although Andrus has lightning speed, Prado is still the better choice at 2nd right now.

ab avg hr rbi obp slg
C Salty 262 .240 8 32 .291 .374
C McCann 296 .301 12 52 .373 .520
*Where would Salty go, first base? no upgrade whatsoever, not even at first right now.

2009 (career) era (career)
SP Harrison 4-5 (13-8) 6.11 (5.76)
SP Feliz (AAA) 4-6 3.49 30BB/75SO
RP Jones (AA) 2-4 5.60 24BB/41SO 35.1IP/42H .284OppAvg

We may miss Feliz, but Harrison, the top prospect, has been oft-injured and has not lived up to the hype. he certainly wouldn’t crack our starting rotation at this point.

RP Mahay (2007) 67ip 37bb/55so 2.55era

not much more than just a decent LH RP we never resigned.

Now, Tex last 3 seasons:
ab avg hr rbi obp slg
2007 494 .306 30 105 .400 .563
2008 574 .308 33 121 .410 .552
2009 392 .281 26 75 .377 .571

Holy crap. If the braves could have paid a king’s ransom for Tex, there is no way this deal is a loss to us. You people on here overvalue prospects. That is all they are until they prove themselves in the MLB. and so far the only one that has proven himself to the Rangers has been Andrus (which wouldn’t start at SS for us anyway). Harrison has done nothing and Salty is doing very little. The others are having decent seasons at AA and AAA right now. So tell me, how was the Teixeira deal so bad (other than braves not being able to sign him to a long term deal)?