Comments on: Craig Kimbrel

By: Marc Schneider

Marc Schneider — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:19:26 +0000

Can’t develop hitters? How about Jason Heyward and Brian McCann?

Although I hate to sound like Pollyanna Bobby Cox, he is right. Sometimes things just don’t go your way. How often do you see a ground ball sneak through and get a run in and people talk about what a great clutch hit it was? Last night, both those balls were hit right at the shortstop. I’m as frustrated as anyone the way the team is playing, and, clearly, there are serious holes in the lineup, but there is a lot of unexplainable randomness in baseball. I watch the Nats and a lot of things have been going right for them-not just against the Braves; balls hit right at fielders, guys making miraculous plays. It was just the opposite last year. I don’t know how good the Braves are–I suspect they are no more than a middling good team–but sometimes things just go wrong.

By: Mac Thomason

Mac Thomason — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:13:54 +0000

Recapped.

By: ryan c

ryan c — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:49:22 +0000

would jermaine dye be that bad of a left fielder? getting desperate…

By: billy-jay

billy-jay — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:40:23 +0000

Well, once upon a time, we had three guys in the running for the Cy Young Award. Do we have any right now? And the focus on pitching has exacerbated the fact that we can’t develop hitters.

Again, I’m well into the middle part of that twelve beers (or bottle of Shiraz).

By: kc

kc — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:41:00 +0000

@211 It’s not flawed if our top paying hitter is hitting like a top paying hitter.

By: billy-jay

billy-jay — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:53:48 +0000

I wonder if the entire Braves philosophy is flawed. You can emphasize pitching when you have guys like Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz in their prime, but if you keep looking for once-in-a-lifetime pitchers at the expense of hitters, I would think that would fail eventually. Plus, baseball without offense is boring.

Just throwing that out there. I’m going to have a beer or twelve.

By: Alex Remington (Another Alex R.)

Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:54:05 +0000

Are you referring to Melky Cabrera? Because I think we’d all be happy if he were MORE injury prone.

By: P. W. Hjort

P. W. Hjort — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:44:18 +0000

The last thing this team needs is a fat, unathletic, injury prone LF that isn’t hitting at all.

By: sdp

sdp — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:21:55 +0000

Braves’ offense if Heyward were not on the team:

98 R, 187 H, 42 2B, 2 3B, 10 HR, 81 RBI, 111 BB, 164 SO

By: Tiger224

Tiger224 — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:36:37 +0000

Another disappointing series loss. And to be that close to another no-no makes it even worse.

Admittedly, I’m no fan of Frank Wren (or Bud Selig or Liberty Media, for that matter). But I’ve seen folks say several times essentially “Wren made the right moves given the budget”.

At what point does Wren’s lack of track record kick in and the Braves determine that he’s not the trigger-puller we need, given the situation? Lack of execution can seemingly go on only so far.

Other teams have certainly gotten more traction out of less investment. How long does this crap go on?

signed-

the frothing knee jerker