Lol, where in the hell did that come from.... Ride on
Lol, where in the hell did that come from.... Ride on
If only we threw money at jason castro
AerchAngel (07-26-2017), cajunrevenge (07-26-2017)
But can he play SS
Coppy
pixie dust...but I'll take it
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
We can't develop young catchers, but we can really get the best out of 30-year-old (and older) catchers
I liked the signing and couldn't understand the barking about it (and a number of folks barked about it). I never envisioned this level of hitting, but Suzuki is a decent back-up at a very reasonable price. He's no defensive whiz, but for $1.5 million he's turned out to be a pretty good deal.
Suzuki is also the stat of the day, his 9 home runs have all come in different innings, 1,2 3,4,5,6,7,8, and 12th.
bravesfanMatt (07-26-2017), cajunrevenge (07-26-2017), DaneHill (07-26-2017), nsacpi (07-26-2017), UNCBlue012 (07-26-2017)
roids
thewupk (07-26-2017), UNCBlue012 (07-26-2017)
Dalyn (07-26-2017)
We develop young catchers. Just once like every decade. Lol. Javy came around in the mid 90's. McCann around in the mid 2000's
I wouldn't really put Estrada on that list...One, because he wasn't really "ours" as most of his developing was in the Phillies organization. Two, b/c he only had like 3 or 4 good seasons and has been outta the league for a decade.
Gattis, he can hit that long ball. But has never been an elite all star type like Javy and McCann.
We need to get someone cooking though. Flowers and Suzuki ain't gonna last that long.
Lopez, McCann, Salty, Flowers, Perez to a lesser degree Gattis, Bethancourt, Pena
"Yes, I did think Aldrich was good UNTIL I SAW HIM PLAY. "- thethe
Going way back, the Braves also drafted a bunch of catchers pretty high and had trouble getting them into the bigs. Catching is such a tough position and it's really hard to gauge which prospects are going to be able to handle the position both offensively and defensively at the major league level. I don't know if the Braves do better or worse in the long run on that score than other organizations. No question both Lopez and McCann were great for us (although Maddux didn't think much of Javy's work behind the plate).