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FlamingLiberal posted:The Dickster signed with the Braves for 1 year with an option In keeping with Braves tradition, he will be assigned the last name Niekro for next season.
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Bartolo's gonna break 500 lbs by the time Atlanta soul food gets done with him. (Matt Kemp will immediately look into a pitching career.)
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ego symphonic posted:Pepsi products are unwelcome in Atlanta. In the burbs anything goes. Edit: subscribed 
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will_colorado posted:should have been the New Orleans Étouffée I would have gone for the New Orleans Bad Detectives but I guess a festive dessert beating the poo poo out of you works too.
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Nov 16, 2016 16:45
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The Braves got their flag, at least. Honestly I'd take that and the years of continual success rather than, for instance, the Marlins' two titles and years of utter poo poo. But that's predicated on getting at least the one.
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Braves get Alex Jackson and PTNBL from Mariners in exchange for Max Povse and Rob Whalen. Povse's been coming back from TJ but has good stuff if he makes it, Whalen has been tearing up the minors but might have an AAAA cap. Or not, who knows b
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Nov 29, 2016 03:33
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There's beat-writer speculation the Braves might try Jackson behind the plate, since catching is definitely the org' weakest point. I also just think Coppolella gets itchy if he goes too long without making some sort of trade.
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Nov 29, 2016 14:23
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Almost wonder if the Braves would take a swing at it, they could send Inciarte the other way plus Ozzie Albies and arms for days. They'd still have Mallex for center and Markakis around. Probably not though since that rotation just isn't winning anything for another year or so of development.
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Nov 30, 2016 22:11
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tadashi posted:I am going to guess Castillo will be a Brave next year assuming they don't pick up somebody via trade soon enough. If they did pick him up that would be something like a lineup of Inciarte Swanson Freeman Kemp Markakis Castillo Rodriguez Garcia Which is pretty serviceable, especially with a pitching staff designed to keep you in games without necessarily dominating many. Not a division competitor, especially with the Nats and Mets around, but maybe could make a run at .500.
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Dec 3, 2016 11:52
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Super happy with the Braves' decision to back way the hell out of this market. One more year of taking lumps and seeing who develops and then in 2018 it's young studs, trade bait, and money to burn. (of course, having said that, watch Coppolella go and make some huge weird trade just because he's getting antsy)
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ScottyJSno posted:I need more Baseball. Book recommendations anyone? It's a very different sort of baseball novel, but: The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., which is in turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and a total mindfuck.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Jackson for Jenkins is giving two guys who projected well but got shelled their first time up in MLB each a change of scenery, I guess. This sounds like a "Coppy got bored" deal. Yeah. Jenkins is probably gonna have a better career but Jackson has the higher ceiling. Kinda liked Tyrell though. elentar fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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TheChaosPath posted:What's important to remember is that this kind of analysis is only relevant or valuable if the subject is something that is not utterly, irredeemably dogshit Black disco is great, gay disco is great, Italo disco is great, it's pretty much all great except for the poo poo cobbled together in an article by a lazy, weak-rear end writer that later became the basis for the whitewash and racist poo poo of Saturday Night Fever anyway, how's the baseball elentar fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Paying big money for a closer is stupid unless you're a high-budget team with a WS-quality roster, and that's few enough that the contracts have stayed relatively same till this year. What's changed? Why so many huge multi-year contracts now when so many previous attempts at them have busted so badly?
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Dec 12, 2016 20:24
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The Braves signed John Danks, for some reason. Only to a minor-league contract though.
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Baseball says yes to Indians, no to Princesses
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I don't get why costumes became the universal thing, you can haze in more fun (and still traditional!) ways without courting any of the other poo poo. For instance, making rookies go paint the balls on General Sheridan's horse in team colors their first time in Chicago.
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will_colorado posted:
Thanks again for having the common decency to fold and let the Braves claim at least the one WS to go with their otherwise unprecedented dominance.
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Dingleberry Jones posted:Suck it, Indians. This too.
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The Pussy Boss posted:Jay Jaffe at Sports Illustrated is profiling all the Hall of Fame candidates again this year, they are worth a read if you have time to kill at work or something. Two of my favorite short-term Braves; whatever his troubles elsewhere, Sheffield was by all accounts a cool guy in Atlanta and absolutely destroyed, especially that second year. Wagner, meanwhile, had an unreal age 38 season and then left 10 million on the table because he wanted to retire to his alpaca farm instead, where he remains to this day.
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Dec 22, 2016 03:09
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Glavine started each game a couple inches outside the plate and added a bit every inning he got away with it. If he was going to get hit hard, it was usually early on, before he had the opposite batter's box to throw strikes to. It wasn't that hitters didn't know what was coming, they just were put way outside where they wanted to be swinging. Maddux had both fastball and changeup that would end up about an inch or two away from where batters were swinging, and he'd ultimately have hitters psyching themselves out by overthinking what was coming. Hence the name. (And why Gwynn destroyed him, cause he'd just slap it anywhere.)
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More Maddux. My favorite ever pitcher and it's not particularly close. Also love that now he just sort of hangs around Vegas and half-assedly at best advises the UNLV team.
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tadashi posted:There's another story via Jason Parks from his old Rangers sources that Maddux used to tell the young Texas pitchers that throwing a curve is like jerking off: just do what feels good. That is just terrible advice (for jerking off, not curveballs).
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Braves appear to be signing Kurt Suzuki to an incentive-heavy one-year deal.
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BasicFunk posted:So that's what 4 catchers? The Braves must be stacking up to trade somebody. Probably Tyler Flowers. Sounds like Recker is more likely, but I'm sure they'll move any of them.
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Sigh. https://twitter.com/bigleaguestew/status/824298046947065857
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:a scrappy up-and-coming team with a lot of heart and fun players. Pity, since the Braves are literally this now, with bonus Bartolo.
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Billy Martin remains the gold standard for baseball drunks.
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The Pussy Boss posted:http://m.mlb.com/news/article/215352966/mlbtv-for-2017-available-now/ Also note that audio feeds for every team is still only 20 bucks and never blocked and radio is the best.
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Looking forward to a nice quiet, low-pressure 72-to-76-win year for the Braves. So long as nobody dies, nothing truly matters till next year or maybe even 2019.
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$1.4 billion of that is the home run fish sculpture
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ahahahaha hoo boy almost nothing better than stupid people online doubling down on their dumb poo poo https://twitter.com/bigleaguestew/status/830126830640173056
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Sean Rodriguez is having shoulder surgery after that car accident his family was in and is expected to miss a few months. Meanwhile the Braves are apparently getting Brandon Phillips after all? Reds must be paying a lot of that salary and nor expecting much back. Just keeping things warm for Albies, so whatever. Edit: at least one Braves writer thinks 3-5 mos for Rodriguez is "very optimistic" so could be whole season. elentar fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Feb 12, 2017 |
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Timby posted:Eating almost all of his salary, and all the Braves gave up is a guy who's had Tommy John twice and a 29-year-old Cuban who has all of 17 games of experience between A and AAA. What the hell were the Reds smoking there? He's not very good. Mike_V posted:Why are the Braves trading for Phillips, aren't they not even thinking about contending for another couple years? He's in the last year of his contract and he's a recognizable enough name (and a local boy to boot). They'd probably be just as well off running Jace Peterson out there most days till Albies comes up--certainly on defense--but it's a reasonable enough pickup given how the super low cost. elentar fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Feb 12, 2017 |
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CubsWoo posted:Load a non-contending team up with guys who might have something in the tank on team-friendly deals and flip them at the deadline to continue your rebuild. Braves apparently agreed to carry over Phillips' no-trade so he's not going anywhere.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Now coming out that the Phillips deal is the Braves will abide by the 12-team no-trade clause he had and will pay him half a mil if they trade him to anyone else. This deal keeps getting better somehow. Even if he sucks he can't be any worse (and certainly much less expensive) than some of the poo poo players the Braves have carried in recent years.
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CubsWoo posted:A ~.500 year is possible but I think big chunks of the Braves were meant to be trade chips since even in a high upside year they're probably not getting better than 3rd in the East given the Nats and Mets. I would be amazed if they get all that close to cracking 80 wins. The roster's held together with duct tape and there's a pretty big drop if anybody gets injured. You'd also have to count on no regression or struggles either from creaky old players, or very young players. From the franchise point of view, it's definitely better to have one more year as sellers; chasing the second wild card spot seems a bit premature.
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