Comments on: Red Sox 1, Braves 0

By: ryan c

ryan c — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:51:13 +0000

i’m rooting for this guy in our farm system. he’s from south africa. by the way, it looks like we finally have some hitters aside from heyward and freeman. danville is scoring runs by the bucketloads. it is rookie ball. so dont get too excited.

http://tinyurl.com/nc6p8c

By: braves14

braves14 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:03:20 +0000

I would pick Vazquez over Hudson as well, however, I think that the Braves could use this as a Sell High opportunity on Vazquez and get some nice prospects in return. Then, in the offseason, the Braves could theoretically use Vazquez’s money (along with Francoeur, Glavine, and ACHE’s contracts being off the books) to fix the offensive holes.

You’d still have a 2010 rotation of Hudson, Lowe, Jurrjens, Kawakami, and Hanson.

By: marc schneider

marc schneider — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:54 +0000

Where is the guy that called Vazquez a cancer on the team?

By: Jon K

Jon K — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:32 +0000

I don’t think this team has a choice… One of the pitchers needs to be traded for a bat. Preferably it should be lowe or vazquez. Medlen will eventually be a starter and we need to save money to sign another hitter in the offseason.

By: Jon K

Jon K — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:33:32 +0000

RON E.

If you trade gonzo and sori how do you expect to win close games? Besides those 2 the bullpen sucks

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:41:27 +0000

Ron, assuming you can’t have both, what does this team need more in 2010, a really good outfield bat or Javy?

By: Ron E.

Ron E. — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:27:04 +0000

Why does everybody want to trade Vasquez? Are we all conceding next year already too? Trade Francoeur, Anderson, Johnson, Soriano, and Gonzalez, sure. The salaries saved from those and not picking up Hudson’s option will give us a shot at signing a free agent hitter in the offseason. But we need Vasquez next year in our rotation.

By: bonitis

bonitis — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:59:24 +0000

@26: “I would not be surprised if Wren pulls the trigger on Yunel as well.”

sadly, i agree with that. only because the braves have a tendency to poorly evaluate talent (francoeur). yunel is one of our best hitters, even if his “cuban flair” (joe simpson) annoys some people.

yunel might be a problem…if you disregard francoeur, ACHE, kotchman, blanco, diory, KJ, prado, and diaz. he is far from what is holding this team back.

By: kc

kc — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:12:07 +0000

“Like I told J.J., we’ve got to keep our heads up and keep battling,” said Vazquez

“The guys are going to come out of this,” Vazquez said. “T.P. [hitting coach Terry Pendleton] is working hard with them. We’re going to get out of this soon.”

Dude, I just love Javy. He should have been a Brave a long time ago. I honestly don’t want to see Javy being traded away, but he is the most logical candidate to be traded.

By: kc

kc — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:57:06 +0000

@32 “Frenchy, KJ, Kotchman, Diaz, et al are talented enough to hit a baseball consistently.”

No ringer, Frenchy never demnonstrated that in the minor. Frenchy did very little comparing to the three other guys you mentioned.

“I know it doesn’t take a great player to make a great coach but for christ’s sake he hit 270 for 15 years and collected 140 HRs? Frenchy after 5 years has a 266 BA and 78 HRs… ”

You can’t compared a player in the 80s and 90s to the one in 2000s. You must be very young and never had a chance to watch TP playing live. At the same time, I agree a change does need to be made. I just don’t think you can blame TP for what Frenchy is doing. Frenchy just sucks. Pure and simple.