GDT: 4/7/'15 - Atlanta Braves (Wood) @ Miami Marlins (Latos) 7:35PM EST

[buck75]

How about that

 

[Julio3000]

 

[thethe]

Yes he is. The Braves' roster was loaded with talent. Last year didn't work out. The previous 4 did very much

Thats because the elite talent handed to Wren on a silver platter got expensive and his mistakes couldn't be absorbed as easily.

 

[sturg33]

Very nice all around game.

We should have a pool on the first home run for us, by who and when.

I'm going to go with Chris Johnson on Saturday

 

[The Tariff King]

That is sad

He will still get pro-rated MLB pay the rest of the season I believe. Even if he doesn't get called back up.

 

[thethe]

Makes me want those 80 wins over the 70.

Can I get another 160 if I get to see that tongue?

 

[Dalyn]

It was a lineup built under the premise that strikeouts don't matter. Wren said as much in many interviews that his people crunched the numbers and felt that strikeouts didn't matter. Having one or two of those guys in a lineup is a smart idea to get some pop but a lineup built upon that principal is stupid and it eventually proved itself out.

It worked a couple years and didn't once. That's not proving itself out in the way you mean.

 

[bravesnumberone]

I Wood love to see her more often.

 

[thethe]

I love this offense. I don't know what all the bitching has been about.

Its people that are still stuck in the steroid era.

 

[Dalyn]

Can I get another 160 if I get to see that tongue?

I'm going to go watch the Harry Potter movies and feel really sick and dirty in a good way.

 

[thethe]

It worked a couple years and didn't once. That's not proving itself out in the way you mean.

As I mentioned above...it stopped working because the players carrying hte Braves (Heyward/Freeman/Tehearn/Minor/Kimbrel) started getting more expensive.

 

[ChapelHillMatt]

Listen, when you are given elite level talent at minimum salary dollras you have to be really awful at your job to not get a bunch of wins.

Also if Wren is given credit for "winning" why isn't Fredi?

 

[thethe]

I'm going to go watch the Harry Potter movies and feel really sick and dirty in a good way.

She has a topenga feel from Boy Meets World.

 

[thethe]

Also if Wren is given credit for "winning" why isn't Fredi?

Matt, people can't stand JS/Hart for trading Heyward. That is the crux of it all.

 

[Julio3000]

It was a lineup built under the premise that strikeouts don't matter. Wren said as much in many interviews that his people crunched the numbers and felt that strikeouts didn't matter. Having one or two of those guys in a lineup is a smart idea to get some pop but a lineup built upon that principal is stupid and it eventually proved itself out.

That team struck out a ton, mostly because some guys had ****ty approaches at the plate. That offense sucked because 2/3 of it couldn't get on base.

 

[sturg33]

Also if Wren is given credit for "winning" why isn't Fredi?

Because we won in spite of Fredi.. Our team was very talented... and that credit goes to Wren

 

[Dalyn]

Also if Wren is given credit for "winning" why isn't Fredi?

I think both of them should've been fired at the end of 2011.

 

[Heyward]

Yes he is. The Braves' roster was loaded with talent. Last year didn't work out. The previous 4 did very much

Wouldnt use the term loaded.

 

[GovClintonTyree]

We get that you hated Wren but don't be ignorant

He took it too far the last year. Upton, Uggla, bad CJ...even his bench was a bunch of strikeout guys.

"You can have a few high strikeout guys, but you can't have a whole lineup full."

- Gov's Dad, one of the 17 Marlins fans in existence. I'd call him and rag on him, but what's the point? He's got to watch that team every night. And he was telling me Sunday night that they were going to contend....maybe I should get mom to check his meds...

 

[sturg33]

I think both of them should've been fired at the end of 2011.

I wish we held on to Wren just a little while longer... No way Fredi would've survived