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Wisler has too many pitchers with more upside behind him. That might even be the case with Folty and Newcomb. We need to get Wisler back to the minors soon and hope he holds it together down there, then we can trade him.

I can't believe everyone thinks Acuna Jr will bat sixth in our order when he comes up. He's a textbook #3 hitter to me. It seems even more clear with in our lineup. Didn't we put Chipper in the #3 slot from day 1? Where did Trout hit his first few days?

Just like all the why didn't we sign Weiters talk went away, I think all the why didn't we sign Frazier or Mous chatter will go away when Camargo provides us a better value. Actually I just want Camargo out there so I can see him throw. If I were manager I might stick him out in RF sometimes...

Thanks for that summary Enscheff. Anyone have any stats on Chippers walk rate alltime? I guess Bonds leads by a wide margin, but Chipper must be up there. Early Heyward always had that over 0.100 walk rate. Freeman did not walk much back then. To me, walk rate will be a big determining...

I also don't know the rules on service time with a few of these guys. I know you don't worry about it as much with pitchers, but I'd guess with Gohara you gain a good bit by not having him on the opening day roster. Send him down for a few weeks to work on the changeup. Start Sims over him...

The key to our rebuild is our young pitching. The main bad move I've seen and I'm not sure it was AA's doing is not getting us a proven outstanding pitching coach/developer. Then what AA does with those pitchers will be key. Our core is there.

Teams rarely trade top prospects, but this reminds me of back in the day, who would you rather have, Andruw or Vlad Guerrero. Later it was Heyward or Stanton. Now to me it's pretty much back to Vlad Guerrero Jr vs Acuna. That's about it as far as who I'd trade Acuna for.

Bravesguy, you have to go back further to find Braves teams trying to rebuild. I know Wren had a hard time, but way back in the 70s and 80s, we had no problem signing bigtime players. Andy Messersmith's signing actually is often cited as changing the free agent markets at the time. With our...

I think the Braves have already messed up on their best chance for significant improvement next year. We blew it by resigning our current pitching coach and manager. Once we get Acuna up and give Matt Kemp much more rest, I think we are putting a solid team on the field. The key will be...

During the AFL Championship game I thought they announced the penalty, something with Junior Severino, $15mil total. Came on here to read it and I guess they were just speculating. I still don't think they will take anyone that we have already signed, that just seems to tricky as far as what...

Yuck. But it is tolerable once you know the Button Gwinnett story, barely.

Thanks Enscheff. Which fastball does Wisler throw the most and where do they rank please? For sure you can see those stats in action. Folty seems to have great stuff, but they hit it when his command is off. They kill Teheran and Wisler when their control is off.

First I've read this thread in a while. I definitely think the move Kemp to first play is the way to go when needed if he can play there at all. Glad to see Enscheff on board. Trade Matt Adams. Maybe a couple of other small moves. Have Kemp play some 1B during the Spring. Start the season...

Yep, I'd sell S Freeman and Viz. We'll have plenty of bullpen pieces soon. I don't think we are gonna be able to get rid of Kemp without taking on a bad contract. Why has no one ever tried him at first? I'd use him somewhat like we used Matt Adams this year and sell Matt Adams. I'd sell...

Fried pitched well then we blew the lead, but the Mets are not doing their part. Actually we did a good job of losing while our young players played well down the stretch. Albies, Newk, and Gohard look like they might be among our best players next year. Dansby will work his butt off this...

Thanks CJ9 for the tie updates and the links. After seeing all those highly ranked state of GA high school pitchers, I just wonder which one of those we end up drafting.

Yep, last year's Sept run made me mad, we just needed one more loss. This year I was enjoying our slump, but now I actually don't mind if we get hot since Albies, etc seem somewhat responsible for it.

Thanks for the new stats Enscheff. Just from what everyone was saying Allard and Fried were my favorite Braves pitching prospects to end last year and early this year. Fried had some weird minors stats and looked so so out of the bullpen, but as his start progressed I was very impressed. I...

Yep, thanks for all your work Rico. Would be cool if one or two unheralded prospects end up panning out. Our recent huge emphasis in trying to pick up high upside should help. I can easily see us having a nearly endless supply of young power bullpen arms if nothing else.

That was some pretty linked relationships between wanting the rebuild to be further along by now. But I think you could put together something similar implying that we were looking at the year 2020. Due to incredibly bad luck with core pitcher going down (Medlen, Beachy, Minor, etc), it became...