The Atlanta Braves - Hello darkness my old friend

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#147,655
GAVol said:
Yep… Murphy and Niekro taught the kids of the 80s that MLB is a business.

I’ve seen 5 HOFers play for the Braves and had to wake up to news that 4 of them were leaving.
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Chipper
Smoltz
Glavine
Maddux

Aaron?

Edit: Niekro, I guess. I forgot he was HOF.
 
#147,657
#147,657
GAVol said:
I’m not THAT old lol. I caught the tail end of Phil Niekro’s career.
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lol. I edited my comment.

Chipper is the exception to the rule. Very rare to find a player that either plays his entire career for one team, or plays the majority of (and finishes) his career with the same team. Smoltz, Glavine, and Maddux were all on the tail end of their careers, best seasons behind them. I’ll include Andruw and Murph here also because they should be in the Hall. Crime Dog should be in also.
 
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#147,658
Regulator said:
lol. I edited my comment.

Chipper is the exception to the rule. Very rare to find a player that either plays his entire career for one team, or plays the majority of (and finishes) his career with the same team. Smoltz, Glavine, and Maddux were all on the tail end of their careers, best seasons behind them. I’ll include Andruw and Murph here also because they should be in the Hall. Crime Dog should be in also.
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Crazy thing about Murphy was he got traded in September. Niekro got NON-TENDERED?!
 
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#147,664
GAVol said:
Wow . . . 12 hours without a post. Scotty's Kuerig must be broken.
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I stopped flexing on y’all with the egregiously early time stamps. Was just running it up at this point, plus no one likes an early ☕️ anymore anyway. At least mine because it’s just too strong a flex and I can’t blame yall
 
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#147,668
vols 30 said:
MLB lockout isn’t greatest threat to baseball, pace of play is - Sports Illustrated

Analytics suck.
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You remember when sabermetrics/analytics first started to take hold inside GM's offices - not anywhere near mainstream yet, but were first making their inroads - and all the old school guys said it was total bunk? It's now flipped and is too dogmatic the other way.
“Everybody got into the aging curve,” the executive said. “There was a wholesale shift toward younger players. Far fewer teams are buying in to the idea that older free agents are worth it. That’s partly because the young players are far better developed. The quality of programs is exceptional—not just college programs, but travel teams and third-party independent entrepreneurs. They’re doing cutting-edge stuff. Now players at 21, 22 and 23 are just more advanced. The development process is just so much shorter than it used to be.”
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This is also seemingly why every pitcher has blown out their arm and had Tommy John by age 25. Youth baseball players now don't play any other sports and pitch (not just throw, but pitch) year-round.
 
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