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He's been using the Hinton Pitching Machine: Invented in 1896-1897 by Princeton mathematics instructor Charles Hinton, the first baseball pitching machine was a, "Mechanical Pitcher" that used gunpowder to propel balls at speeds up to 70 mph. This early, cannon-like device could throw strikes...

Braves are high floor, low ceiling talent evaluators since AA arrived. Yes you get your yearly influx of a player or two but you're not seeing anything that looks like a perennial top 10 at their position type player. Baldwin might be that guy. But even with the ROY helium he ended up 9th in...

I wonder how long they've know this? I mean the testing didn't happen yesterday I wouldn't think. Seems like the last time he got busted he was tested in the offseason and notified in ST. If known several weeks or months ago it would have been nice to know while options were still available...

Actually that isn't the worst idea in the world. If they don't do something about the SP, and I'm not sure they can at this point, then they aren't serious about truly winning. Moving the (eventual and almost certainly inevitable) down years of Olson's contract wouldn't be the worst thing in the...

Everybody on here is insufferable. But like animal farm some are more insufferable than others. I wouldn't say that I'm back, but maybe visiting for a while.

I knew I could liven this dead ass place up.....................:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:

I clamored for Freeman to be traded for lots of players. Some would have worked out and some not. The point was to build the talent base given the expected return coming back for Freeman so that WHEN the rebuild was over there would be talent waves in place to both feed the team and use for...

Keeping Freeman brought a WS championship to Atlanta, so ultimately it was the right call at the time. However, not trading Freeman led to exactly what I was warning about years ago. The Braves didn't add talent (either minor league or major league) which limited the talent pool more than it...

This is so amusing

Mid 90's it would have been the Cheetah 3

Albies is going to be a .650-.700 OPS guy who plays reasonable defense. He just needs to be dropped down to the 9 hole in the lineup. At this point you have to hope you get out of Arcia what you wanted from Albies and vice versa. Murphy/d'Arnaud (when he's back) need to hit 5&6 with Harris...

Not worth it. Don't need it. Carry on.

Wonder how much decreased game time would cut into concession spend? Assuming a relative straight line spend (which I don't think you can really do) and an average spend of $30 per person (just a WAG) and 30K attending per night over 81 games that would result in about $73M in concession spend...

Money Balls Gotta have enough to go around

Sorry about CLV. We didn't agree on much but he was someone who would put things out even though he knew he would likely be attacked for it (sometimes rightly so). He stood by his convictions. And he had some good takes at times IMO. Hope he gets a luncheon with Neikro and the Hammer.

Yeah, I agree. It's always a gamble. You just have to try to better the odds if you can. The Braves DO look likely to be competitive over the next 4 years given luck, especially on the everyday player side of the ledger. But if anything, anything, goes wrong then your likely having to dig into...

Sorry about CLV. We didn't agree on much but he was someone who would put things out even though he knew he would likely be attacked for it (sometimes rightly so). He stood by his convictions. And he had some good takes at times IMO. Hope he gets a luncheon with Neikro and the Hammer.

The concern is sustainability, continuation of the competitive window. When you get to the top of the mountain, you have to have waves of talent, each wave situated strategically on the developmental curve (Rookie, Low/High A, AA/AAA), or be ready to spend at all costs, or some version of the...

A holistic view should be applied to a franchise each year. This should include where a team is on talent at both the ML and miL, where the team is in regards to contention, how committed you are to capturing a trophy, how committed you are to maintaining a competitive window, etc. I personally...