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#39,179
Kingston Vol said:
It makes no sense for the Braves to be IN on Kuechel and OUT on Kimbrel.
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Eh... Not really. Closer is the most overrated position in baseball. I'd love to have Kimbrel, but I think thats as much psychological as anything else. People just want to know the their team acknowledges is weaknesses.
 
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#39,180
GAVol said:
Eh... Not really. Closer is the most overrated position in baseball. I think the whole Kimbrel thing is as much psychological as anything else.
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That’s fine. But there’s a hole at the closer position (or good bullpen arm in general) and we’ve got like 8 starters who deserve innings.
 
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#39,181
Kingston Vol said:
That’s fine. But there’s a hole at the closer position (or good bullpen arm in general) and we’ve got like 8 starters who deserve innings.
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8 starters that deserve innings and about 3 that have proven anything. It's basically Soroka, Fried, Teheran, hold your breath. Need somebody else to throw some competitive innings.
 
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GAVol said:
8 starters that deserve innings and about 3 that have proven anything. It's basically Soroka, Fried, Teheran, hold your breath. Need somebody else to throw some competitive innings.
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Fried trending scary direction
 
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TBrown said:
Fried trending scary direction
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Yep... I almost referenced that too. The point is, you don't want to lean on more than 1 or 2 young guys at a time. It takes awhile for them to find consistency.

Gausman being noncompetitive has really hurt.
 
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GAVol said:
Yep... I almost referenced that too. The point is, you don't want to lean on more than 1 or 2 young guys at a time. It takes awhile for them to find consistency.

Gausman being noncompetitive has really hurt.
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Sounds like something some people said all offseason
 
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Bowman isn’t shooting down Keuchel... even RT’d Braves as front runner. Maybe FO is trying to say hey look we tried when we don’t get him or........
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
Could you imagine if he had signed and everything stayed the same what this rotation would have looked like?

Greg Maddux
Randy Johnson
Tom Glavine
John Smoltz
Steve Avery




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Good Lord.

One of the funniest things I've ever heard anybody say about sports is the reason the Braves only won 1 WS with their HoF rotation is because they had a rotation "built for a 162 game season, not necessarily the playoffs."

Throwing Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz (and Avery, when healthy) at an opponent in a 5 or 7 game series is built for 162 games? If anything, the Braves had a team (in particular a starting rotation) built for the playoffs. Perhaps not the bullpen (which was the downfall sometimes), but definitely everything else.
 
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I wouldn't mind Keuchel because two important starters (Soroka and Fried) aren't used to full season major league ball.
 
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