Mad Dog Murph
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The whine crew is in rare form early this year. You guys must be a blast at parties
2025 Spring Training Thread
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CyYoung31
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From my experience wine is always a big blast at parties.
Deester11
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Maybe pull off a trade for Soroka....no...wait. I mean, maybe not. This spring has been a mess. This board is in mid season form.
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
Glad no one took that bet. huh?
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
I don't know if it was in ink, but he got tattooed today.
zbhargrove
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Apparently JR Ritchie looking dominant in the spring breakout… up to 97 and 98
msstate7
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If soroka were wearing a braves' uniform with that start, we would have ripped him to pieces. Don't go getting a soft heart for a guy
Ritchie is my pick to emerge this year.
Hard not to be excited by those performances on the mound. Biggest thing for Ritchie today was velo being back to pre-surgery instead of the 90-92 he was last year. And he definitely passed that test.
Fuentes looks like the real deal. Hope he can keep developing this season, that was extremely fun today.
Baumann outing looks awful, but he touched 100 and clearly has made a big velo jump from last season. Obviously control was a huge issue today, but his control was great in Augusta all year last, so I’m hoping he’s just adjusting to the new velo level.
Lot of fun arms to follow this spring. As far as the bats, umm, there are a lot of fun arms to follow.
Fuentes looks like the real deal. Hope he can keep developing this season, that was extremely fun today.
Baumann outing looks awful, but he touched 100 and clearly has made a big velo jump from last season. Obviously control was a huge issue today, but his control was great in Augusta all year last, so I’m hoping he’s just adjusting to the new velo level.
Lot of fun arms to follow this spring. As far as the bats, umm, there are a lot of fun arms to follow.
Fuentes’ velo readings lined up pretty well with a guy who was there with a radar gun: https://x.com/chriscleggmilb/status/1901411929978966277?s=46&t=t7xpFDjlFYkGV6nUElb0dA
ramadon101
Danville Rookie
Chris Clegg also said he saw SS John Gil today and reported that he is “much larger and stronger” than last year - may be another helium guy this year if he has a jump in performance.
If you basing that purely off defensive metrics, you are being a bit unfair. And you totally disregard both DRS and UZR which show Allen as a good defensive SS.
From the eye test, Allen looks the part of a good defender.
Deester11
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Who's FB? If you're talking Didier, he does pitch up in the zone with it and it does have movement, but the draw of his 4 seamer is it's late life which makes a mid -90's FB play up.
The infatuation with him is youth, secondary pitch improvement and command (which is a thing with a few of the higher rated Braves prospects). Ritchie is an easy guy to peg as the next thing and Lara may have better overall stuff, but I like Fuentes a lot.