The Atlanta Braves (thread 1)

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I liked the fact that Jones spoke out....Boston has always been my favorite team but I have followed the Bravos since childhood as well. I have tickets for the Sox/Yanks series in April hope Smoltzie is around by then!
 
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smokeyman15 said:
Read that article T-Town...Chipper is standing up for his guy, and I like that.
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Chipper is very "media savy", he know when to say whe right thing
I have been around him when the reporters and cameras are not around

No one wants to see JS go
 
#5,634
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Well, Lowe certainly provides something positive about the offseason, if nothing else. He'll be the ace, and with a rotation that includes him, Jurrjens, Vazquez and Kawakami, that isn't too bad. Hopefully Tommy Hanson will be the world-beater that Frank Wren thinks he is and add another solid arm to the rotation so Campillo can be where he's better suited and add depth to the bullpen. Get Hudson back mid-season and the pitching looks workable. The outfield still sucks but hopefully Wren has something up his sleeve.
 
#5,635
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Wow, what a way to overpay for an aging Derek Lowe. There is no reason in being stupid at this point. They're several years away from competing for a title anyway. Why blow money you've dismantled your franchise to gain.
 
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They had to go get him. They may have overpaid a little, but they have the money to spend. I actually like this move better than rolling the dice on AJ Burnett.

At the very least, the Braves just forced the Mets to settle for Randy Wolf/Oliver Perez instead of instead of Lowe.
 
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NationofVols said:
Wow, what a way to overpay for an aging Derek Lowe. There is no reason in being stupid at this point. They're several years away from competing for a title anyway. Why blow money you've dismantled your franchise to gain.
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Not sure how they have dismantled the franchise, unless you are referring to the Smoltz thing....

I don't mind the overpay for Lowe at all, they absolutely had to have another starter for the upcoming season. Regardless of the fact if they are picked to "compete". There is no reason to save the money that you are allotted for salaries.
 
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After letting Smoltz walk, they had to go get Lowe. A four-year deal for a 36-year-old pitcher is sort of insane, but that's what it takes these days. The rotation looks okay, but until they acquire at least one decent outfielder, 2009 still looks like a complete wash.

The biggest reason I wanted the Braves to do the supposedly irrational thing and bring Smoltz back was as a one-year bridge to 2010 -- by the offseason next year, the Braves should have figured out who's going to work out among Hanson, Charlie Morton, Reyes, et al., whether Kawakami's going to be any good, whether Jurrjens is truly going to be a guy whom you can pencil in near the top of your rotation for the next several years, etc. There's a good possibility that, starting in 2010, the Braves won't even need Lowe that much, but now you've committed $15m a year to him until he's 40.

Letting Smoltz walk and signing Lowe, in other words, is the move of a franchise that still think's it's going to compete in 2009. And I just don't see it.
 
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VOLNBAMA said:
if he hasn't improved his plate discipline then i want no part of him.
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If he could hit .250 with a little pop, play good defense and be in the lineup everyday, he'd be a massive upgrade no matter how many times he struck out.
 
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GAVol said:
If he could hit .250 with a little pop, play good defense and be in the lineup everyday, he'd be a massive upgrade no matter how many times he struck out.
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if he we could like the Andrew of old then i would love to have him but whether he can hit over .230 right now is in doubt.
 
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