Spring Training 2015

I find it very hard to believe Fredi will start Callaspo over Jace.
Then again, I would've found it hard to believe that BJ would be our leadoff hitter for half the year last year.
 
yeezus said:
I find it very hard to believe Fredi will start Callaspo over Jace.
Then again, I would've found it hard to believe that BJ would be our leadoff hitter for half the year last year.
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If Jace is on the team he needs to start or at least play regularly.
 
Small sample size, yada yada, but John Buck is really surprising me. He really looks good … on the radio and boxscore, anyway.
 
Braves1976 said:
If Jace is on the team he needs to start or at least play regularly.
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Yeah, I don't want to see him "rewarded" for his impressive play in ST with a backup job. He needs to be getting reps, either in ATL or Gwinnett.

Along those lines, anyone want to take a crack at projecting the 25-man?
 
sturg33 said:
The typical homers
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Huh. I was as big a CJ fan as they come … I liked the idea of a contact/get on base guy in the line up (and yes, I freely admit I was looking at the box score through homer-tinted glasses). But even I was mystified by that extension. I never bought the tradable contract argument. If he was worth it, why would you want to trade? If he’s not, what makes you think you’d be able to?

::sigh::
 
dak said:
Game ends in a tie. Nice day at the plate for Eury Perez. 2-2 w/ a BB. One of the hits a double.
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I thought both hits were doubles? Whatever the case, yea he had a good day and I still like him better than EY Jr. but I'd be lying if I said I thought much of EY Jr. as a hitter.
 
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I got a kick out of this Rotoworld blurb on Eury Perez today . . .

Eury Perez doubled twice and walked Monday as the Braves played an Astros split-squad to a 2-2 tie.
Perez is better defensively than Eric Young Jr. and he's having the better spring of the two thus far, yet Braves writers are seemingly pretty confident that Young will be in center field to begin the season. That's seemingly because Young is a "proven leadoff hitter," and Perez has just 23 major league at-bats to his credit.

I still think there's hope that Perez will platoon w/ Young Jr in CF and at leadoff. He has a big platoon split and kills LHP. His OPS against LHP is ~900 the past two years at AAA.
 
dak said:
I got a kick out of this Rotoworld blurb on Eury Perez today . . .

Eury Perez doubled twice and walked Monday as the Braves played an Astros split-squad to a 2-2 tie.
Perez is better defensively than Eric Young Jr. and he's having the better spring of the two thus far, yet Braves writers are seemingly pretty confident that Young will be in center field to begin the season. That's seemingly because Young is a "proven leadoff hitter," and Perez has just 23 major league at-bats to his credit.

I still think there's hope that Perez will platoon w/ Young Jr in CF and at leadoff. He has a big platoon split and kills LHP. His OPS against LHP is ~900 the past two years at AAA.
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Now that's funny! If EY Jr. is a "proven leadoff hitter" I suppose Bonifacio who has a better track record than him must be an All-Star. :happy0157:

That said, Perez is hitting both righties and lefties well this Spring Training so far (not that ST numbers mean much if anything). But he really does seem to kill lefties, including a .500 average against them this ST in a small sample. So if nothing else he and Mallex Smith could make a solid platoon in 2016. That isn't to say Smith won't prove a starter in CF, it's just if Smith has any issues vs lefties then Perez could be a solid platoon partner in that case. And even if not he'd be a good back-up CFer to give Smith an off day vs a tough lefty.
 
New Bowman article on the roster competition for position players. I agree that KJ is looking like the odd man out in the IF.

The option to carry both Gosselin and Callaspo has become more attractive as Kelly Johnson has displayed a slow bat in the process of recording just two hits in the 19 at-bats he's compiled this month. Johnson had been regarded as a versatile utility player who could play across the infield and left field if necessary.
"If you go out and say we've got open spots and you've got competition, then you've got to be able to produce a little bit," Gonzalez said. "If a guy wins a spot hitting .055 while the other guy is hitting .360, then you come out looking like a fool."

http://m.braves.mlb.com/news/articl...ers-jockeying-to-win-roster-spots-with-braves
 
JohnAdcox said:
Yup. Still can’t understand why EYJ is considered the favorite.
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Don't think about it too hard. In fact, try not thinking at all, about anything. That's how you put yourself in Fredi's shoes and see from his perspective. :icon_biggrin:

Fredi say, "When understand nothing, me understand all the things."
 
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