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    I want him to start at AA and move up quickly.

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    I just want to chime in and say I think he could be our 2017 starting right fielder...

    ...and should have been our 2015 right fielder.

    Who wants to top that.

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    He and Fried are likely our two favorites for "fast riser" status.

    I think Fried has turned a lot of heads this spring.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    I just want to chime in and say I think he could be our 2017 starting right fielder...

    ...and should have been our 2015 right fielder.

    Who wants to top that.
    He would have been a better hitter than Heyward!

    Hows that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tapate50 View Post
    He and Fried are likely our two favorites for "fast riser" status.

    I think Fried has turned a lot of heads this spring.
    I suppose I understand the reluctance based on injury history but the reports on his stuff are tantalizing. Fried is going to push for a major league job earlier than people think. In fact, I think both Newcomb/Fried are going to make the Braves seriously think about trading Colon/Dickey by June.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    He IS a better hitter than Heyward!

    Hows that?
    Heyooo

    He of the 5\38 and .214 obp this spring. Its been brutal.

    I know its been hashed to DEATH, but this franchise could not in any way float a player like that. He isn't likely going to opt out of that Cubbies deal I wouldn't think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    He would have been a better hitter than Heyward!

    Hows that?
    He is so good he taught Andrew Jones all he knows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coach_Chris View Post
    He is so good he taught Andrew Jones all he knows.

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    He's the one who convinced Andruw's dad that spelling Andruw with a u was a lot cooler...and he did this several decades before he was conceived

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tapate50 View Post
    Heyooo

    He of the 5\38 and .214 obp this spring. Its been brutal.

    I know its been hashed to DEATH, but this franchise could not in any way float a player like that. He isn't likely going to opt out of that Cubbies deal I wouldn't think.
    The pro heywad crowd has certainly become silent. That initial trade thread is something else to go back to now

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    The pro heywad crowd has certainly become silent. That initial trade thread is something else to go back to now
    I think it's more likely Heyward reverts back to his old self than he is finished.

    It was just 2 seasons ago he had the best year of his career

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    The pro heywad crowd has certainly become silent. That initial trade thread is something else to go back to now
    What's there to say? His 2016 was horrible. Do you expect him to be that bad going forward?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    I think it's more likely Heyward reverts back to his old self than he is finished.

    It was just 2 seasons ago he had the best year of his career
    If he was still with the Braves thethe would be talking about a rebound year from him

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    Better hitter right now, Heywood or Francoeur?
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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    What's there to say? His 2016 was horrible. Do you expect him to be that bad going forward?
    I've said for a long time now he is overrated as a total value player and that paying for his defense was silly.

    I'd still love to have him back at less than half his price tag.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    I've said for a long time now he is overrated as a total value player and that paying for his defense was silly.

    I'd still love to have him back at less than half his price tag.
    You can say that but it doesn't make it true. That fact that you and people like Bill Shanks value Heyward at less than 20 million a year for what he did prior to Chicago shows you don't know how to properly value players.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    You can say that but it doesn't make it true. That fact that you and people like Bill Shanks value Heyward at less than 20 million a year for what he did prior to Chicago shows you don't know how to properly value players.
    The fact that you want to pay players for what they've done and not what you project in the future shows you don't know how to value players.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    The fact that you want to pay players for what they've done and not what you project in the future shows you don't know how to value players.
    So is there a place we can find your Heyward projections from a few years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    The fact that you want to pay players for what they've done and not what you project in the future shows you don't know how to value players.
    So did you project Heyward to immediately go from a 110-120 WRC+ hitter to around 80 at age 26? You argument applies to those who sign FA's after their 30's like you want the Braves to do with Lucroy next offseason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    The fact that you want to pay players for what they've done and not what you project in the future shows you don't know how to value players.
    Any credible projection would have projected Heyward's offense to improve in his late 20s/early 30s as his defense began to tail off, basically cancelling each other out. No projection system will take a player who has been a 5-6 WAR player through age 25 and project him to be worse than that from 26-30.

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    Where were you guys when many of us on this board said heyward wasn't a good hitter? Are you going to pretend like that wasnt discussed

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