5/17/15 Braves @ Marlins

thethe said:
The article I posted about the velocity he is hitting the balls certainly shows up when you watch the games. Guy just squares it up well.
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He also has hit a ton of balls hard on line to the RF that have been caught all year. He strikes out more than you would like to see, but he walks, runs well, and historically plays excellent defense. I love having Maybin on the team.
 
chop2chip said:
He also has hit a ton of balls hard on line to the RF that have been caught all year. He strikes out more than you would like to see, but he walks, runs well, and historically plays excellent defense. I love having Maybin on the team.
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He is essentially what we thought BJ would be. At least what I thought he would be.
 
Julio3000 said:
We took Maybin to balance the dollars in the Kimbrel deal. He had been DFA'd by the Padres.

Dude, come on...and this is from a guy who wanted to get Maybin when they DFAd him.
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Do you not think he is part of the future at this time? Guy is still super young and has always had tremendous abiliyt.
 
A big part of the offense doing better is Freeman and Simmons rebounding. CJ too before he got hurt. And some addition through subtraction in center. All things that could be foreseen as likely this past offseason.
 
chop2chip said:
He also has hit a ton of balls hard on line to the RF that have been caught all year. He strikes out more than you would like to see, but he walks, runs well, and historically plays excellent defense. I love having Maybin on the team.
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+1 on everything but the "excellent defense" part. He's looked too shaky in CF for my liking. IIRC he's had a couple of game-changing misplays in the outfield. He's a solid athlete so hopefully the defensive part of his game will continue to improve.
 
nsacpi said:
A big part of the offense doing better is Freeman and Simmons rebounding. CJ too before he got hurt. And some addition through subtraction in center. All things that could be foreseen as likely this past offseason.
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That plays a role but so does Nicks 400+ OBP and Jace Peterson being a tough out. Likewise with guys like Maybin/KJ/AJ/etc...

This is not what hte offense would have looked like had we kept all the guys from last year.
 
Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan
Even before Shelby Miller's no-hitter-in-progress, Atlanta looked like it won the Jason Heyward deal. Tyrell Jenkins solid at Double-A, too.
 
USMA76 said:
+1 on everything but the "excellent defense" part. He's looked too shaky in CF for my liking. IIRC he's had a couple of game-changing misplays in the outfield. He's a solid athlete so hopefully the defensive part of his game will continue to improve.
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You missed the part in your quote that includes "historically". I agree that he's been mediocre so far.
 
thethe said:
Do you not think he is part of the future at this time? Guy is still super young and has always had tremendous abiliyt.
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He's shown real reasons to believe he could be—but there are also real reasons he hasn't stuck with a couple teams heretofore, despite his age, athleticism, and a need in CF for those teams. I think it's too early to tell what Maybin will mean long-term for the Braves, though any amount of mattering will make the Kimbrel trade appear even better.
 
thethe said:
Do you not think he is part of the future at this time? Guy is still super young and has always had tremendous abiliyt.
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Oh, I think he could be. I've been as big a proponent of him as anyone here, if not the biggest. My point was that I don't think that he was targeted by the Braves in any meaningful way. He wasn't precisely a throw-in—taking him was probably conditional to SD's making the deal. So if he ends up as a contributor, awesome—but its more good fortune than perspicacity.
 
Sure is nice to have a laugher of a game so far (thanks, Shelby) so we can debate world peace, the Braves future, etc.
 
jpx7 said:
He's shown real reasons to believe he could be—but there are also real reasons he hasn't stuck with a couple teams heretofore, despite his age, athleticism, and a need in CF for those teams. I think it's too early to tell what Maybin will mean long-term for the Braves, though any amount of mattering will make the Kimbrel trade appear even better.
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Yeah, there could be issues behind the scenes and somehting we would never know as fans.

I think his abilit to stay healthy has been an issue and hopefully one that is behind him.
 
Justin Boar reminds me of the St Paul Saints' porcine mascot of a few years ago, Justin Bieboar.

Edit: Any idea, [MENTION=54]50PoundHead[/MENTION], if the Saints are still trotting that set of trotters out there? Been a few years since I've caught a game in St Paul.
 
Julio3000 said:
Oh, I think he could be. I've been as big a proponent of him as anyone here, if not the biggest. My point was that I don't think that he was targeted by the Braves in any meaningful way. He wasn't precisely a throw-in—taking him was probably conditional to SD's making the deal. So if he ends up as a contributor, awesome—but its more good fortune than perspicacity.
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I can't just pick and choose players in a deal that I give the front office credit for. They get the blame for every player that fails and credit for the ones that succeed.
 
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