2015 Lineup Construction

[jpx7]

Nah, Tron pops up too much for that to happen.

When he's hitting in front of the pitcher, sure; but I'm confident that, given enough time in the two-hole and with the new hitting-coach, he can turn those pop-ups into hard grounders right at middle-infielders.

[thewupk]

When he's hitting in front of the pitcher, sure; but I'm confident that, given enough time in the two-hole and with the new hitting-coach, he can turn those pop-ups into hard grounders right at middle-infielders.

Hopefully with enough time in the two-hole he can hit it hard right up the middle

[thethe]

Geez this board is going to be cheery this year.

[bravesnumberone]

Geez this board is going to be cheery this year.

Who wouldn't be with BJ, CJ and Tron battling for cleanup and giving away 90 percent of our offense without adequately replacing them? You and some of the others here got what you wanted with all the high risk high reward TJ Express Train. So don't complain when we win 73 games.

[thethe]

Who wouldn't be with BJ, CJ and Tron battling for cleanup and giving away 90 percent of our offense without adequately replacing them? You and some of the others here got what you wanted with all the high risk high reward TJ Express Train. So don't complain when we win 73 games.

I'm not concerned about the product as I was fully on board with a rebuild. I just think the chatter on this board is going to be difficult to deal with.

[bravesnumberone]

I'm not concerned about the product as I was fully on board with a rebuild. I just think the chatter on this board is going to be difficult to deal with.

Not as much as being last in offense. But we are guaranteed the WS in three years so whatever

[jpx7]

I'm not concerned about the product as I was fully on board with a rebuild. I just think the chatter on this board is going to be difficult to deal with.

We're going to be wallowing a bit next season, certainly—for good reason, I think; and I'd expect you to agree, given that you admit the product on the field, at least for 2015's purposes, will be sub-standard. I think the best thing to do is to try to have fun with it, derive as much humor as we can from our collective misery at the likely-miserable record Atlanta will sport, and all the while try not to let the crap on the diamond make our posts too crappy.

[57Brave]

more fun than watching Tommy LaStella getting in JHey's path to a blooper and watching JHey in disgust glare at Tommy La?

I'd have to see that

[cajunrevenge]

RF- Markakis
SS- Simmons
1B- Freeman
CF- Upton
3B- Johnson
2B- Callaspo
LF- ???
C- Bethancourt


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http://gifb.in/47bV

[Julio3000]

We're going to be wallowing a bit next season, certainly—for good reason, I think; and I'd expect you to agree, given that you admit the product on the field, at least for 2015's purposes, will be sub-standard. I think the best thing to do is to try to have fun with it, derive as much humor as we can from our collective misery at the likely-miserable record Atlanta will sport, and all the while try not to let the crap on the diamond make our posts too crappy.

This.

Just bring the funny. It'll be ok.

[cajunrevenge]

We should really be rooting for the #1 draft pick so losing is really winning. Braves probably **** it up and win 80 games.

[sturg33]

I'm just sad Heyward is gone. He was always so fun to watch. There is nothing exciting on this current team.

[Braves1976]

We should really be rooting for the #1 draft pick so losing is really winning. Braves probably **** it up and win 80 games.

The way I see it is if we gotta lose, then let those we want to trade do great and everyone else can stink it up for this year as that will improve our draft pick. For example, we need CJ and BJ to improve enough to be moved one way or another. Plus Minor needs a good year to sell high on him rather than sell low. A good season from Grilli and Johnson would help trading them at the deadline so that would be nice too.

We also need as many of our prospect pitching lottery tickets to stay healthy and do well.

[cajunrevenge]

I'm just sad Heyward is gone. He was always so fun to watch. There is nothing exciting on this current team.

100 MPH fastballs are exciting. There's a good chance we sit at least 1 no hitter too. Peraza could be exciting when he graduates.

[clvclv]

Geez this board is going to be cheery this year.

Actually things around here will improve drastically once Pitchers and Catchers report since the bitch-and-moan crowd will all be...

1.) working late
2.) on the golf course
3.) coaching little league baseball
4.) on the lake
5.) traveling in Europe
6.) making great progress on that "honey do" list that's been growing longer during the warm months
7.) volunteering for various charitable organizations.

You know, all those wonderful fun and commendable things they had in mind when the swore they "weren't going to watch this team when they traded Heyward...um, err, ummm, well if they trade Heyward and Upton for THAT pile of crap...um, er, umm since there's nothing worth wasting my time on if they trade Heyward, Upton, AND Gattis".

Just you wait - as soon as the players report to camp this place will be one of the calmest, quietest, friendliest places on earth because the bitchy/whiny crowd sure as hell won't be paying attention to anything that has to do with the organization a month from now.

BTW - how about stickying this and a couple of the other threads so it'll be easier to reference all the bellyaching when that crowd shows up in game threads or other discussions?

[cajunrevenge]

The way I see it is if we gotta lose, then let those we want to trade do great and everyone else can stink it up for this year as that will improve our draft pick. For example, we need CJ and BJ to improve enough to be moved one way or another. Plus Minor needs a good year to sell high on him rather than sell low. A good season from Grilli and Johnson would help trading them at the deadline so that would be help too.

We also need just as importantly many of our prospect pitching lottery tickets to stay healthy and do well.

Whatever happens I know fans will way over react to how we start. We could start 3-0 and we could get some "Francoeur doesn't need to learn to take a walk" level delusion or we could start 0-1 which of course means we will never win another game ever.

[sturg33]

Actually things around here will improve drastically once Pitchers and Catchers report since the bitch-and-moan crowd will all be...

1.) working late
2.) on the golf course
3.) coaching little league baseball
4.) on the lake
5.) traveling in Europe
6.) making great progress on that "honey do" list that's been growing longer during the warm months
7.) volunteering for various charitable organizations.

You know, all those wonderful fun and commendable things they had in mind when the swore they "weren't going to watch this team when they traded Heyward...um, err, ummm, well if they trade Heyward and Upton for THAT pile of crap...um, er, umm since there's nothing worth wasting my time on if they trade Heyward, Upton, AND Gattis".

Just you wait - as soon as the players report to camp this place will be one of the calmest, quietest, friendliest places on earth because the bitchy/whiny crowd sure as hell won't be paying attention to anything that has to do with the organization a month from now.

It's so odd to me to see several poster gleeful that we gutted our YOUNG, GOOD talented players.

It's not like we are the Phillies and just dumped Ryan Howard. We made our team SIGNIFICANTLY worse, by trading away young, good, popular players. Everyone understands why this happened, but it seems really odd to me how many people are thrilled about it.

And really - what we got in return for the good players cannot be considered anything better than risky

[57Brave]

I'm just sad Heyward is gone. He was always so fun to watch. There is nothing exciting on this current team.

Simba -- still have the most exciting player in MLB

[clvclv]

It's so odd to me to see several poster gleeful that we gutted our YOUNG, GOOD talented players.

It's not like we are the Phillies and just dumped Ryan Howard. We made our team SIGNIFICANTLY worse, by trading away young, good, popular players. Everyone understands why this happened, but it seems really odd to me how many people are thrilled about it.

I'm just thrilled that quite a few people won't be around here any more since they've had all they're going to take and they're definitely not going to watch.

Not that you're one of them at all.

[MadduxFanII]

Just bring the funny.

Dammit. I'm out.