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What about basically an entire pitching staff with 4+ years of team control remaining. Plus a first baseman!

Tommy Hanson, 4 years
Brandon Beachy, 5 years
Mike Minor, 6 years
Julio Teheran, 6 years
Randall Delgado, 6 years

Kris Medlen, 4 years
Johnny Venters, 4 years
Craig Kimbrel, 5 years

Freddie Freeman, 5 years

Still no hitting and no payroll that LM will spend. If they sell the team I'd feel 10 times better.

At least we're winning tonight.

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04-10-2012 , 10:40 PM

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Sandviper23

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Wow... I thought for sure that was gonna be out of the park. Caught a break there!

5-3 now with 1st and 3rd.. lets go O'Ventrabel! Need the hold hold save

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04-10-2012 , 10:40 PM

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PocketChads

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biggest immediate problem is finding a hitting coach whose only answer to any problem is "just never don't swing"

Last edited by PocketChads; 04-10-2012 at 10:41 PM. Reason: was re: old school discussion

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04-10-2012 , 10:41 PM

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Borgland

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Karma is a bitch Bobby Pigtrino. Hell yes I'm posting about where ever I can lol.

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04-10-2012 , 10:53 PM

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PocketChads

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attaboy keg barrel

Last edited by PocketChads; 04-10-2012 at 10:54 PM. Reason: safeco insurance run

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04-10-2012 , 11:20 PM

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Borgland

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Lo, Chipper the Savior hast returned.

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04-10-2012 , 11:20 PM

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Sandviper23

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There is it! Nice Win!

Chipper was the difference! Great day at the plate and great defense on 3B

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04-10-2012 , 11:21 PM

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hard2tel

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thank god

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04-10-2012 , 11:31 PM

#10484

PocketChads

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Chipper with a great interview in postgame

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04-10-2012 , 11:54 PM

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gdaddy84

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Can we please get "Last Dance with Larry Wayne" as the official thread title now?

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04-11-2012 , 12:04 AM

#10486

PocketChads

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45 away from 500. His career high is 45. Can he hit 45 more this year to set a new career high? :P

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04-11-2012 , 09:52 AM

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SoulPower

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“I’m not going to say that I was the spark,” Jones said. “Obviously the two-run homer was a big lift, but I’d much rather be a calming influence. Have them look down there, see me, and know that I’m going to put up some good at-bats and hopefully make the play if it’s hit to me. If they feed off that, great. But my nickname is not Sparky.”

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04-11-2012 , 01:02 PM

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Borgland

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I did notice that Chipper was not limping and got down the first base line pretty quick. As the season goes on expect him to slow down. Hopefully he doesn't end the season on the DL again. Really want him to go out on his own terms and not carried out.

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04-11-2012 , 02:51 PM

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tdomeski

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Originally Posted by hard2tel

Yea i mean we're definitely gonna be competitive for awhile at least...which is great. However, it's gonna get harder and harder to compete against the big market teams with huge tv deals going forward. We're stuck with a terrible tv deal for like 25 more years or something ridiculous and our attendance has been good but not great. Our payroll is going to continue to hang in the 80-90mil range while everyone else moves past us.

And while our scouting has always been great i'm not exactly comfortable with the fact that they're all 'old school' guys. We need to move more towards sabermetrics soon or we'll be left behind. I doubt the Braves even have one sabermetrician or statistician or whatever....hope i'm wrong

And obv being owned by Liberty Media isn't optimal.

pretty certain braves have a sabr guy or two in the front office. they use fangraphs for reference all the time (quote from wren when he guest lectured a class at Tech a few months ago)

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04-11-2012 , 04:06 PM

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hard2tel

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woah awesome

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04-11-2012 , 08:22 PM

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hard2tel

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Why is Jack Wilson starting?

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04-11-2012 , 08:26 PM

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hard2tel

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HEYWARD GOAT

wtf are you talking about Joe..heyward tries to pull everything now

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04-11-2012 , 09:02 PM

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Delgado looking pretty good tonight. I know it's just the Astros, but decent so far. Bunch of grounders, no walks yet, handful of K's.

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04-11-2012 , 09:09 PM

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Benholio

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Best backup catcher in baseball!

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04-11-2012 , 09:09 PM

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hard2tel

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best backup catcher in the baseballs

Last edited by hard2tel; 04-11-2012 at 09:09 PM. Reason: pony gonna be put down

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04-11-2012 , 09:11 PM

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hard2tel

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jack out of the batters box there but it's all good haha well done

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04-11-2012 , 09:13 PM

#10497

Benholio

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Bunt all of the baseballs

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04-11-2012 , 09:36 PM

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Sandviper23

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nice to see Delgado get out of that jam.

Should be a fun inning to watch with Chipper, Uggla, Heyward coming up.

Last edited by Sandviper23; 04-11-2012 at 09:40 PM. Reason: Nevermind... 4 pitch inning to retire them

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04-11-2012 , 09:39 PM

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hard2tel

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wow i thought uggla's ball was definitely gone when he hit it with the short box out there

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04-11-2012 , 09:53 PM

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hard2tel

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He was safe i think but we'll take it

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