Comments on: What will the next embarrassment be game thread: May 28, Braves at D-Backs

By: Gadfly

Gadfly — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:56:37 +0000

@72, 74 & 75: I’ve seen little more than one episode of Full House in my life, but even they understood the difference between impossible and improbable. As Jeff showed in March and the first three weeks of April it is possible for him to produce, but as he continues to revert to his ’08 summer form, it is looking less and less probable that this will happen over a significant enough stretch of this season.

I’d still say it is just as probable as Jo-Jo or Charlie becoming quality Major League starting pitchers. Though neither is terribly likely.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:11:19 +0000

What does Matt Diaz have to do to earn a starting OF job? This is an organization that once allowed Dewayne Wise to win a job over Gary Matthews in spring training. A quarter of the season is gone. He’s got an OPS 200 points higher than any other OF on the team, and he’s the one in a platoon? I do understand that Diaz is better in a platoon, so would any other OF.

By: Mac Thomason

Mac Thomason — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:05:45 +0000

Recap is up.

By: Stephen in the UAE

Stephen in the UAE — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:15:01 +0000

#74–Good point; don’t forget that he might steal 10-12 bases as well….

By: marc schneider

marc schneider — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:43:56 +0000

Ya know, I have this sneaking suspicion that Jeff Francouer is not going to be the starting RF for the National League in the All Star game. However, it is possible that he could hit .650 for the next month with 12 home runs and overtake everyone else.

By: braves14

braves14 — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:45:28 +0000

I don’t understand why the Braves haven’t been giving Norton any PAs at all in the corner OF.

By: Timo

Timo — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:47:28 +0000

@70 No, it’s not.

By: kc

kc — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:06:09 +0000

Gadfly, I think the chance of Schafer rebounding from his terrible start is more likely than Frenchy rebounding…even though both are pretty slim…

By: Gadfly

Gadfly — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:55:07 +0000

@69: It was possible, and there’s still a chance it could happen. It doesn’t look like a great chance, obviously, but in the offseason it looked like a much better chance than I’d have given Jo-Jo Reyes or Charlie Morton becoming quality starting pitchers. Morton might have figured something out, but I doubt it, so I’d still say it is about an equal chance.

You have to do the best with what you’ve got, and after we fought and scratched to keep that division title streak alive, we ended up with a pretty bare cupboard. It happens.

By: Timo

Timo — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:43:33 +0000

Gadfly, now you really make me laugh…

“It was, and still is, quite possible that (…) Francoeur will rebound to his 2007 form.”