It will be an up and down season but when its all said and done I think we will be around 500 and play meaningful games in September. The offense has a chance to be good and if the veterans starting pitchers have one more solid year we may catch lighting in a bottle and have a shot to have an exciting finish.Originally Posted by msstate7
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Dumb that we are winning all these meaningless games. It going to hurt our draft slot.
you ok there? where's the hyperbole?
jpx7 (04-16-2017)
good point...wins at this point in the season hurt as much as wins in september
Ridiculous we haven't traded colon, JJ, Viz, Phillips, and dickey yet. We're gonna mess around and miss out
I thought the consensus around here was in the 75-80 range. There are only a few outliers and they got the grief they deserve.
Dalyn (04-16-2017)
Come mid-season I suspect we will be open to both buying and selling. Which I think makes sense for where this team is. The buying of course won't be of the 3-month rental variety but some strategic pickups aimed at filling some holes in 2018 and beyond.
We are beating up on the only NL team worse than us.
sturg33 (04-16-2017)
They have 5 wins just like us. I won't apologize for beating any MLB team
If we stay undefeated at home, surely we can win just enough on the road to compete for the second WC slot.
jpx7 (04-16-2017), The Chosen One (04-16-2017)
Agree. Plus lots of better braves teams have had issues beating the bad teams.
It's hard to beat anyone three much less four times in a row.
But nobody is saying this team is going to win 60 plus home games
anything can happen for 2 weeks
Technically the phollies, giants, cards and friars are all worse than us.
They've got wins vs dodgers and giants and Rockies. All better than us.
I feel dumb saying it but I do think we will be better with kemp back
I think we are probably better than the Padres, Reds, and Phillies, but they play the games for a reason.
How could we not be? His bat would be a tremendous upgrade for the starting linuep. The offense will be good.
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Agreed...but I called this sweep before it happened with the way the pitchers lined up.
Yes, I know there are 4 games this series.
I'm the guy you're talking about, but personally I'm still skeptical this Braves team will win upwards of 78 games. They're on a nice little stream, but it shouldn't be hard for just about any team in the majors to look impressive at home against the Padres.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Maybe the Brewers too.
Everything is still too up in the air right now. Injuries always have to be factored into the equation but ultimately the Braves just don't have as many holes, outside of the bench, that they've had in 4 years. One other thing that should be considered is that the Braves have a lot of talent close to the majors (Albies/Newcomb/Blair/Wisler/Ruiz/Kubitza(still could be a nice 24/25th man)/Adams). When the injuries start to happen there is less risk that they'll have to scramble to fill a spot.
I say if we get 800+ innings from our current starting 5 then we are in pretty good shape. The other innings can be filled in with spot starters.
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