Bluefield_Rules 46 Report Share Posted May 8, 2011 Teheran did fine for his first major league start against, what many consider, the best team in baseball. He's 20-years old and today will do nothing, but provide as a learning tool moving forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted May 8, 2011 Well like I said, it could have been worse but I still think it was a bad move. He's their top prospect, and probably their best pitching prospect in 20 years. It's dangerous to mess with him. He needs to pitch every 5th day in AAA from now until September. Mike Minor or Rodrigo Lopez should have been brought up to make a spot start. Situations like this are the reason you sign a guy like Lopez in the first place. He's a major league veteran who's currently 4-0 2.11 in AAA. In fact, I would rather have him as the long releiver instead of Martinez. Then he would be in place to make a spot start without calling anyone up. Minor just missed the 5th starter spot out of spring training, and made one start in April while Jurrjens was injured. He currently has a 1.93 ERA in AAA this year. Either of those guys should have made the spot start instead of Teheran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 Well like I said, it could have been worse but I still think it was a bad move. He's their top prospect, and probably their best pitching prospect in 20 years. It's dangerous to mess with him. He needs to pitch every 5th day in AAA from now until September. Mike Minor or Rodrigo Lopez should have been brought up to make a spot start. Situations like this are the reason you sign a guy like Lopez in the first place. He's a major league veteran who's currently 4-0 2.11 in AAA. In fact, I would rather have him as the long releiver instead of Martinez. Then he would be in place to make a spot start without calling anyone up. Minor just missed the 5th starter spot out of spring training, and made one start in April while Jurrjens was injured. He currently has a 1.93 ERA in AAA this year. Either of those guys should have made the spot start instead of Teheran. Â if you were 20 years old and in AAA with the Braves and had a chance to pitch against the Phillies, would you want to do it or would you want to stay on the farm? I bet he was tickled to death to get a shot at it. I'd say he will be up by the end of the year full time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VOL61 14 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 two out of three from the Phils in Philly will work. We need to keep this going. Big week coming with the Nats and the Phils at Home. Freeman had a nice game yesterday. Jurrgens was off the charts. This team isn't going to just hand this thing over to the Phils..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefieldRocks 14 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 8 home games in a row. Hopefully we can gain some ground on the Phillies and Marlins. Â Only 1.5 games back of Florida, and 3.5 from the Phills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I'm a little shocked that the Nats are staying as close as they are...figured they would be a solid 12 back by now lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBlueAlum 12 Report Share Posted May 9, 2011 I'm a little shocked that the Nats are staying as close as they are...figured they would be a solid 12 back by now lol. Â Seems like we always drop 2 out of 3 to the Nats. Hopefully we can change that this week and make it 10 wins in 11 games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VOL61 14 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 Seems like we always drop 2 out of 3 to the Nats. Hopefully we can change that this week and make it 10 wins in 11 games. Â I think alot of those games to the Nats was because Nyjer Morgan killed us. He is with the brewers now but that guy seems to kill the braves. He did earlier this year in Milwaukee. Â I would love to see a really good home stand too. I think we handle the Nats. We are just playing to good right now. (knock on wood). But the Phils are going to be a little pissed after dropping two out of three to the Bravo's. I would love to sweep their high priced butts..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBlueAlum 12 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 I think alot of those games to the Nats was because Nyjer Morgan killed us. He is with the brewers now but that guy seems to kill the braves. He did earlier this year in Milwaukee. Â I would love to see a really good home stand too. I think we handle the Nats. We are just playing to good right now. (knock on wood). But the Phils are going to be a little pissed after dropping two out of three to the Bravo's. I would love to sweep their high priced butts..... Â I hope you're right! I'm going down to watch the Friday night game against the Phils. Lowe should be pitching for us, so hopefully he can have another strong outing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie07 11 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Random, but it goes with the Teheran talk from a couple days ago. Â Did anyone notice that Julio Teheran pitched for Danville at one point? I was bored and just happened come across Danville's Wikipedia page and saw him listed on the roster. Did a bit of Googling and found out that he had 6 starts in 2008 and 7 starts in 2009 before being called up to Class-A Rome. Â Lots of talent (Braves especially) comes through the Appalachian League: Francoeur, Furcal, Tommy Hanson, Andruw Jones, Adam LaRoche, Jason Marquis (who beat the Braves tonight with WSH), Kevin Millwood, John Rocker, and Adam Wainwright to name a few that are listed off the Wikipedia page. Â Anyways, I found that interesting and figured that some of the other Braves fans might also. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VOL61 14 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 I hate losing to the Nats. That is like 16 of the last 26 we have lost to them. Hudson just wasn't himself. We tried to win it at the end but Conrad came up just short. I thought it was out . We need to take the next two. I think Hanson goes tonight. Â Have fun this weekend Big Blue. I haven't been down in a couple years. Have a "Ice Cold Beer" for me..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canes00 434 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 the braves defense let them down last night I dont know what it is about the braves struggling with the Nats but they do bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 errors killed them last night...they had what 4 unearned runs by the 5th inning...hard to win those kinda games. Hope it was just an off night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBlueAlum 12 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Have fun this weekend Big Blue. I haven't been down in a couple years. Have a "Ice Cold Beer" for me..... Â or a half dozen. ;) Â Thanks, and I will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VOL61 14 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 Missed last nights game. But seems they got us again..... This home stand isn't starting very well...... Hope Heyward is OK..... MRI scheduled today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefieldRocks 14 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 It was 3-1 going into the 9th I believe. Â Errors are crushing our soul right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 No errors last night. Blown save by Kimbrel allowed them to tie it the 9th, then win it in the 11th against Linebrink. Kimbrel has a loss and 3 blown saves in his last 10 games. If he keeps that up you might see him switch roles with Venters. Kimbrel has a bright future but he's only 22. He might need to work as a setup man for a while. Â Linebrink has to go! He's been horrible! Scott Proctor is eligible to be called up after Sunday so you might see them cut Linebrink loose. Proctor might not do any better but he can't do much worse. Moylan is out at least another 8-12 weeks and that is hurting them. Would be nice to see them trade for another reliever if any are available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 I bet they wish they had Wags back about right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefieldRocks 14 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 No errors last night. Blown save by Kimbrel allowed them to tie it the 9th, then win it in the 11th against Linebrink. Kimbrel has a loss and 3 blown saves in his last 10 games. If he keeps that up you might see him switch roles with Venters. Kimbrel has a bright future but he's only 22. He might need to work as a setup man for a while. Linebrink has to go! He's been horrible! Scott Proctor is eligible to be called up after Sunday so you might see them cut Linebrink loose. Proctor might not do any better but he can't do much worse. Moylan is out at least another 8-12 weeks and that is hurting them. Would be nice to see them trade for another reliever if any are available.  How many errors on Tuesday night though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance 228 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 How many errors on Tuesday night though? Â i saw 3 before i turned it off...lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigD4VT 11 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 Three errors Tuesday night but it's nothing to be concerned about. Freeman made two of them and McLouth made the other. Those guys are two of the best defenders on the team and aren't going to make many errors. It just happens in this case that they combined for three in one night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vthokies4life 10 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 A couple more errors tonight, Lowe hung a couple pitches, etc. But despite our best efforts, we came away with a win tonight. Taking one away from a series is better than taking none away from a series I guess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 So, no talk of the Braves pwning the Phillies? And no talk of the Braves' win tonight over Houston? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefieldRocks 14 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 So, no talk of the Braves pwning the Phillies? And no talk of the Braves' win tonight over Houston? Â 3 game win streak right now. Â Find it hilarious we beat the Phils 4 out of 6 times. Yet almost get swept by the Nats. It always happens for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vthokies4life 10 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 3 game win streak right now. Find it hilarious we beat the Phils 4 out of 6 times. Yet almost get swept by the Nats. It always happens for some reason.  Ahem... We took one from the Nats, thankyouverymuch.    Your point still stands. We seem to play well against the Phillies, but we don't take care of business in our other games. So frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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