8/21 GDT: Seattle Mariners (63-62) @ Atlanta Braves (55-67)

Garmel said:
How many people have we had thrown out at home this year? Geez.
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Ron is very aggressive as a 3B Coach. Early in the year he stole some runs that way, but as the season has gone on it has seemed to come back to bite us a few times.
 
Man, Ender has got to extend his lead and get a better jump if he's going to be running there. Stupid to have him running but if it's called he's gotta give himself a better chance.
 
I think Braves international scouting and their draft scouts are good but they need to take a very hard and long look at their advance scouting. It's proving to be not so good...even if Dansby works out in the end (and I think he will but he won't work out to even top 10-15 in the draft status), where are your under the radar steals in your trades? Jace? uhhh (and there is an embarrassing tweet by DOB that says the Braves think Jace is special).

I don't have the time to do more, but that is just one example.
 
Swanson fWAR and bWAR were -0.7 when he was called back up. Right now both are -0.1. Pretty impressive to pick up 0.6 so quickly.
 
GeorgiaGirl said:
I think Braves international scouting and their draft scouts are good but they need to take a very hard and long look at their advance scouting. It's proving to be not so good...even if Dansby works out in the end (and I think he will but he won't work out to even top 10-15 in the draft status), where are your under the radar steals in your trades? Jace? uhhh (and there is an embarrassing tweet by DOB that says the Braves think Jace is special).

I don't have the time to do more, but that is just one example.
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Jo Ramirez, Gohara, A Jackson, to a degree Touki? Maybe those aren't under the radar enough but I've still liked the majority of our trades.
 
Oklahomabrave said:
Jo Ramirez, Gohara, A Jackson, to a degree Touki? Maybe those aren't under the radar enough but I've still liked the majority of our trades.
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Gohara was certainly under the radar. Barely anyone knew who he was when he was first acquired. He's blossomed quickly.
 
What about FLowers/Suzuki.

Its a shame we suck because if this was a good team and we got this type of production out of catcher Coppy praises would be LOUD.
 
Swanson is really showing something since his return. Needs to continue but you have to be encouraged.
 
Year three of a rebuild centered around pitching, and we're still waiting for our first good pitcher. Lot of fun.
 
CJ9 said:
Year three of a rebuild centered around pitching, and we're still waiting for our first good pitcher. Lot of fun.
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The crux of the pitching rebuild is still in the minors. This argument is so misleading.
 
Super said:
secret is out: pitching takes a while to develop. alert the press
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Well hopefully it develops in time before Freddie potentially becomes injury prone, and that window of pitching coincides with Albies and maybe Swanson if he's good being farther away from free agency than closer to it.

So far, the big names from trades we acquired when we started this rebuild have mostly sucked. Folty has flashes where he looks like he's ready to take next step then you have the last few starts where he's back in the black hole.

Blair looks to be leaning towards bust.
Wisler looks to be leaning towards bust as a starter, maybe hope for him as a long reliever like Cristian but if that's the case his value would have dropped tremendously.
Newcomb needs to stop walking people. I'm wiling to give him the same amount of patience I gave Folty.
Sims just looks like at best he'd be a 5th starter to eat up innings or on a good year a 4.
Jenkins perhaps wasn't as highly thought of when we acquired him like many pencilled Wisler and Blair to be rotation mainstays, but he didn't do very well here.

When we acquired all this talent, I think the FO and super posi's felt our rotation should have already been Tehearn-Folty-Blair-Wisler-Free Agent. Now Tehearn looks like he'll never take that next step, and it'll be hard to unload him with his value so low.

So what's the reasonable time table you expect this plethora of pitching we've stocked to actually take the big league team to the next level?
 
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