Canes00 434 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Uggla is going to hit he has always been a slow starter I agree with freeman he has good promise but I dont think he is ready for the show the bottom line right now is they are not scoring runs. The braves were 9-14 in April last season so a slow start may not hurt them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield_Rules 46 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Well someone woke up the offense for tonight's game and better yet, Hanson is pitching his best game of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canes00 434 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 not much talk about the braves this year and I can see why with an 8-12 record their offense is horrible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 not much talk about the braves this year and I can see why with an 8-12 record their offense is horrible  yeah...going to be a long year...they should have invested in a bat...knew Uggla was not the answer...he will start hitting, but they needed a solid 40+ HR guy...sad thing is for what they are paying Fuggla they could have gotten one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 yeah...going to be a long year...they should have invested in a bat...knew Uggla was not the answer...he will start hitting, but they needed a solid 40+ HR guy...sad thing is for what they are paying Fuggla they could have gotten one. Two players in all of baseball hit 40+ HR last year. The steroids ERA is over and those guys don't grow on trees anymore. Uggla has proven over a number of years that's he's a very good hitter. He will come around. Â Power isn't the Braves problem anyway. They're tied for 3rd in the league in HR. The problem is OBP which is dead last in the league at .297. And BA which is 3rd from last at .230. They have 6 guys who can hit 20+ home runs (20 is the new 30 in the post-roids era) but the lack a true leadoff hitter. The best move they could make (and only move they need to make IMO) would be to find a CF with decent speed and a high OBP to bat leadoff. Then they could move Prado back to #2 where he belongs. Â And honestly, being 8-12 at this point in the season just means there are 142 games left to play. It's April. It doesn't mean much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 he will come around, but i just dont think he was the answer...see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 I don't think he's the answer either. Heyward is the answer. He's the future #3 hitter and franchise player. But he's not hitting right now. Freeman is also part of the answer and he's doing quite well since they got him out of the #8 spot. Â The Braves are a solid team. They just need to get guys on base. Now that home run totals are coming down teams need to find other ways to score. As I said before, the steroids era is over. I think the era we are heading into right now will look a lot like the 70's and 80's which was the most balanced era in baseball history. Pitching is good and power is coming back down to earth. That means things like baserunning, bunting, and defense are going to be important again. The Braves need a legitmate leadoff hitter. Someone like Michael Bourne would be perfect although I doubt he's available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vthokies4life 10 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 And just like that, the Braves find themselves in the midst of a couple people who did some really stupid sh*t. First, McDowell makes homophobic comments and threatens fans with a baseball bat (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6444083). Then, Derek Lowe gets charged with a DUI soon after he was seen racing (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6448504). Brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canes00 434 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 you never seen this sorta thing very often when Cox was the manager in my opinion they should release derek lowe and fire mcdowell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 you never seen this sorta thing very often when Cox was the manager in my opinion they should release derek lowe and fire mcdowell They would have to eat Lowe's very large contract if they release him. Regardless, I don't think they will release him. He will likely be suspended though. I think McDowell probably will be fired. Anyone know who the pitching coach at Gwinnett is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canes00 434 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Marty Reed is the pitching coach at Gwinnett but I believe if mcdowell is fired I think they give ole Leo Mazzone a call Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Marty Reed is the pitching coach at Gwinnett but I believe if mcdowell is fired I think they give ole Leo Mazzone a call  Leo should've never left in the first place. Broke up a wonderful thing in Atlanta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Yeah, it would be great to have Leo back. I don't think it would happen just like that though. If McDowell is fired I think Reed, or someone else currently in the organization, will come up, at least on an interim basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Yeah, it would be great to have Leo back. I don't think it would happen just like that though. If McDowell is fired I think Reed, or someone else currently in the organization, will come up, at least on an interim basis. Â they need to bring in Greg Maddux...put him over the pitchers...couldn't be any worse and Atlanta loves him...would like to see what he could do with some of the young pitchers on the way up. Â Dale Murphy should be managing the Braves as well...dude is as clean cut as they come and knows baseball...players love him...he is a fan favorite in Atlanta...would be a good fit if you could talk him in to doing it. Â A manager has to be able to hold a team together...and right now it looks like the wheels are about to come off....Lowe just got arrested for DUI...McDowell is saying stuff he should know better than to say...from the outside it just looks like a total lack of discipline right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Speaking of pitching: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6448504 Â Yeah, not good to have this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 McDowell placed on administrative leave. Minor league pitching coordinator Dave Wallace will fill in. Â http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2011/04/29/braves-place-mcdowell-on-administrative-leave/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_braves_blog&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefieldRocks 14 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 McDowell placed on administrative leave. Minor league pitching coordinator Dave Wallace will fill in. http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2011/04/29/braves-place-mcdowell-on-administrative-leave/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_braves_blog&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter  Administrative Leave = pretty much fired Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 they need to bring in Greg Maddux...put him over the pitchers...couldn't be any worse and Atlanta loves him...would like to see what he could do with some of the young pitchers on the way up. Dale Murphy should be managing the Braves as well...dude is as clean cut as they come and knows baseball...players love him...he is a fan favorite in Atlanta...would be a good fit if you could talk him in to doing it.  A manager has to be able to hold a team together...and right now it looks like the wheels are about to come off....Lowe just got arrested for DUI...McDowell is saying stuff he should know better than to say...from the outside it just looks like a total lack of discipline right now. I would love to see what Maddux could do. He's one of the smartest pitchers in history and he played for one of the all-time great pitching coaches. Currently he's a special assistant to the GM of the Cubs. He works with all the pitchers in that organization.  Murphy never went into coaching. He's written a few books, and he runs a non-profit foundation to keep kids off performance enhancing drugs. He also works with many other charities and is heavily invloved with church. As a sidenote, his son is Shawn is a current member of the Denver Broncos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 end of April and we are already 6 games back lol...darn Phillies on a hot streak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canes00 434 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 it will get a whole lot worst if we dont start hitting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield_Rules 46 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 A terrible amount of inconsistency across the board. I also question some of the in-game management decisions through the first month, both pitching and hitting. Another month like April and the Braves could very well be double-digit games out of first place in the East. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 The Braves are 13-15... On this date last year they were 9-14. It's April! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 The Braves are 13-15... On this date last year they were 9-14. It's April! Â yeah...Phillies are looking very strong this year though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 yeah...Phillies are looking very strong this year though... In all honesty, the Braves are competing with the Marlins this year. Not the Phillies. The Phillies payroll is double that of the Braves. Their pitching staff makes more than the Braves entire team. Unless they collapse, nothing will stop them from winning the NL East. The Braves are playing for the wild card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 In all honesty, the Braves are competing with the Marlins this year. Not the Phillies. The Phillies payroll is double that of the Braves. Their pitching staff makes more than the Braves entire team. Unless they collapse, nothing will stop them from winning the NL East. The Braves are playing for the wild card. Â good point... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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