Beth with a 2-run homer in the 1st for Gwinnett. Awesome.
Beth with a 2-run homer in the 1st for Gwinnett. Awesome.
Allard has been really impressive but its a bit too early for the Kershaw comparisons.
Mallex 2-4 tonight. He's killing it now.
Braves1976 (08-15-2015)
Bethancourt 2-4, hr, 3 rbi
Braves1976 (08-15-2015)
Braves1976 (08-15-2015)
Mallex just doing what he has done his whole minor league career. Not surprised at all.
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Mallex and Beth with 3 hits. Good lord. Doing work. Beth needs to freaking be up.
Braves1976 (08-15-2015), clvclv (08-16-2015)
Mostly speed and balls hit in the gaps, line drives usually. But some have been deep shots and off the wall too.
This one was a recent double he hit off the wall: http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.j...16283&sid=milb
He also has 5 triples total this year, IIRC more of them have been off the wall (as is this one video linked): http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.j...78583&sid=milb
Last edited by Braves1976; 08-16-2015 at 12:06 AM.
Garmel (08-15-2015)
Quick, trade for whoever it was that made contact against Allard. Surely they are hall of fame talents.
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It seems to me that the Braves are trying to keep AJP happy in case they want to re-sign him. If we had brought up Beth in the beginning of August to catch 4-5 games a week and relegated AJP to a backup, it may hinder our ability to sign him next year under the premise that he can compete for the starting job. I'm not saying I like this strategy, but I think this is a possible reason for what we're seeing.
I actually think re-signing AJP makes it more likely that we keep Bethancourt. These are the two most likely scenarios I can see: (1) add a middling veteran (like AJP) to compete with Bethancourt for the starting job, or (2) add a bona fide starting catcher (Wieters, Lucroy), trade Bethancourt to a team that values him as a potential starter, sign a veteran backup.
If Bethancourt comes up and crashes, AJ resigns. If Bethancourt comes up and lives up to potential, who cares if AJ comes back?
AJ's feelings should mean nothing in this decision. AJ at best is good again next year. We need to try and solve the catching problem long term IMO