very shocked to see gattis with a 3.6 D fWar. can someone who watches braves games confirm he's not a liability?

if so then i agree, calling up bethancourt is probably pretty bad since i don't expect him to be an improvement on BJ's offensive numbers.

anyway, here's the link http://mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=...k_atl&c_id=atl

He's not a liabilty at catcher. OF is a different story. I've read where he's the best on the Braves at handling pitchers and"framing" strikes.

Backbreaking double play there.

Bases loaded nobody out, still down 1-0

hmm well tbh I haven't been watching the games lately so I'm not really aware of BJ's recent defensive issues. If his D really is struggling then those moves make more sense. He'd have to be struggling pretty bad for Heyward to be an upgrade over him in CF, though. lol @ the article citing his DRS in RF as evidence of his CF prowess.

And Gattis would be a massive liability in LF...as a catcher he passes the eye test..seems pretty solid. Justin would also be a liability in RF, probably. BJ would seriously have to be Uggla-like for those moves to make sense, I think.

Yea, last time I looked the stats had him as being pretty solid at framing. Not as good as McCann or Ross but above average.

Seem to be saying it a lot lately, but.... that was a ugly top of the inning. Felt good after they tied it in the eight.

Dvae O'Brien is refuting the claim The Braves are bring up Bethancourt now. He's saying they probably won't until September.

http://atlantabraves.blog.ajc.com/20...discussed-yet/

Boy this thread is dying during the Barves June swoon, eh.

Anyways, Fredi finally wising up, La Stella is batting leadoff and Heyward fifth. Still not ideal but better I guess.

*ah, Pena for Simmons, and Dooumit and Schafer in the OF.

At least we still got EL OSO BLANCO!!!!!! GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barves

2nd place predictions might be generous.

*jumps off bandwagon*

Not really but wow swept by the phillies at home

Yeah, not our best look.

We have a ton of games coming up in our division, to say nothing of 4 at the National's place.

Hope we play better in this big upcoming series

If when JUp comes back Fredi puts him into the 2nd spot and goes with La Stella/Justin/Freeman/Gattis/Heyward/who cares and sticks with it I will officially give lolfredi a rest for like a month.

Love how BJ always barking at the umps now. Not their fault he sucks. Overrated, overpaid, pos.

Floyd done.

He got jobbed but he also argues every taken strike basically so yea, I have no sympathy.

Time to call Wood back up. That swelling was nasty looking.

I like how we're so chill about another Barves starter going down with an elbow injury. We've had a lot of practice, I guess.

lol. Too true.

Broken elbow per AJC wild stuff

Sheesh

Buchter called up. Congrats fanbois.

^^Oh baby.

Hopefully he can limit the walks and pile on the K's

Call me crazy, but i'm starting to think batting BJ second might not be a good idea.

Aight= now he's officially in the majors his nickname is Abdullah the Buchter, Abby for short.