GDT 8/14/2013: Phillies @ Braves

[Braves1976]

Come on Freeman let's blow them out early! Oh, Lannan's out eh? OK.

[skidlee]

wow taking him out?

is he hurt?

[Tapate50]

Here comes the Vanilla Gorillla!

[bravesnumberone]

Well that sucks. Hopefully nothing serious for Lannan. Also sucks because we haven't done all that great against their terrible bullpen.

[Heyward]

No lock those prospects amount to anything.

But a pick in the 30's will?

[thethe]

No lock those prospects amount to anything.

Obviously not but if the draft pick (which is more of a crapshoot) turns out to bust then you literally got NOTHING back for Jason Heyward. That should not be an option. Unless there is some indication from McGuirk that they will open up the vault to keep Heyward then trading him should ALWAYS be an option.

[parkvadawg]

Lannan owns us

[zitothebrave]

No he wasn't. BJ was the one that used to play IF. Justin has always played the OF since was drafted but it was always RF and CF. He never played LF in the minors or majors.

Justin played 2B and SS IIRC growing up. Gilesfan can come in later for clarification.

[Julio3000]

Jason hitting the ball HARD!

If by "ball," you mean "pipe," yeah, most definitely.

Seriously, dude is just a force right now.

[50PoundHead]

Let's break this thing open. Lannan has been a pain in our side for years. It would be nice to knock him around tonight.

[Dalyn]

You can't say this, Shanks just saw it and said "even crack, right??"

[AUTiger7222]

John Lannan is coming out with an injury.

[AUTiger7222]

Justin played 2B and SS IIRC growing up. Gilesfan can come in later for clarification.

Right but I was talking about since he got drafted. All he's played since he got drafted is RF and CF. This is the first time he has ever played LF. So it's a major adjustment for him.

[zitothebrave]

Obviously not but if the draft pick (which is more of a crapshoot) turns out to bust then you literally got NOTHING back for Jason Heyward. That should not be an option. Unless there is some indication from McGuirk that they will open up the vault to keep Heyward then trading him should ALWAYS be an option.

False, we got an extra year of Jason Heyward.

[parkvadawg]

Which makes it odd that he appears to be a better defender in Left than Right.

Don't agree with that. Justin is lost in left. What I will say is not many if anyone is better than Jason in right

[weso1]

Need to at least get one here.

[Dalyn]

Come on, Gattis!

[skidlee]

I was talking more about their projection when first entering the bigs. When I first saw Prado, I never thought he'd be able to pull the ball with any authority

I get that they needed power and traded for Uggla. I thought, and still think, that Prado made himself into a pretty good baseball player, but you need different-sized gears to have optimum synergy and I can see why they traded for Uggla.

Well I don't see Pastor turning himself in a starting major league player. At best he will be a decent utility guy.

I understand that the braves needed RH power and the trade for Uggla was pretty easy to make. And if he was still keeping his OBP and OPS high while hitting his 30+ HRS it would have been awesome.

[BravesBlock]

Insane. I'd leave BJ off the playoff roster at this point.

Would the Atlanta Braves have the guts to do that. I agree that if he hasn't turned it around by the time playoffs start that he should be left off the roster but does anyone believe that Wren would actually do it?

[AUTiger7222]

Which makes it odd that he appears to be a better defender in Left than Right.

It depends on which defensive stats you're looking at.