GDT 8/14/2013: Phillies @ Braves

[Heyward]

Pretty confident we will keep Jason. We should. Someone shoot me in the face if Schafer is ever the starting RF

He already turned down an extension, so it's not out of the realm to think he may not.

 

[Braves1976]

Haha, Beachy is better than Janish. He didn't swing and worked a walk. If Janish would've took the rest of AB he'd probably be on second now given Lannan's control issues.

 

[Dalyn]

I really do believe players improve and mature. I think JS has turned a corner. I think he could start.

Some certainly do. He is a valuable 4th outfielder. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Heyward]

True or False...Paul Janish should never swing in a 3-1 count.

He should never swing at all.

 

[yeezus]

Jason is just LACING the ball lately. Man!

 

[AUTiger7222]

Heyward is just smoking everything!

 

[bravesnumberone]

Heyward is winning.

 

[thethe]

Jason hitting the ball HARD!

 

[Braves1976]

Heyward can do no wrong! Nice hustle as usual too! Good baserunning all around boys!

 

[Gary82]

IM NOT TRADING HEYWARD!

 

[chopdrew]

j-hey up to .352 bop. I remember in april/may when we all thought he was garbage. He was carrying too much weight with that appendix.

 

[yeezus]

Heyward is just smoking everything!

You can't say this, Shanks just saw it and said "even crack, right??"

 

[skidlee]

No I don't, you're that guy from the book store, right?

huh?

 

[parkvadawg]

Schafer would have hit that 600 feet

 

[BravesBlock]

Justin is better in RF than LF. He won the fielding bible in RF a couple years ago. This year he's playing LF in the majors for the first time ever.

Which makes it odd that he appears to be a better defender in Left than Right.

 

[zitothebrave]

Trade one year of winning now for a couple of years of losing later? No thanks. You can trade a player of Heywards ability for an above average RF plus stud prospects.

I want Heyward to stay. I have wanted him to sign an extension even when he was struggling but if he makes it clear that he doesn't want to stay here then you need to move him. Getting a draft pick for Hewyward is a complete waste.

No lock those prospects amount to anything.

 

[Tapate50]

.226 other than the lead off spot and .364 in it? Like, whoa.

 

[AUTiger7222]

People don't realize that playing the 2 corner spots is different. Balls jump differently and carry differently. Justin will improve in LF. People also have to remember that coming up Justin was originally an IF. He's only been playing the OF for about 6 or 7 years

No he wasn't. BJ was the one that used to play IF. Justin has always played the OF since was drafted but it was always RF and CF. He never played LF in the minors or majors.

 

[Gary82]

All loaded up for Freddie!

 

[50PoundHead]

I was never against Prado playing. I didn't understand why they traded for Uggla and moving Prado to LF.

I was talking more about their projection when first entering the bigs. When I first saw Prado, I never thought he'd be able to pull the ball with any authority

I get that they needed power and traded for Uggla. I thought, and still think, that Prado made himself into a pretty good baseball player, but you need different-sized gears to have optimum synergy and I can see why they traded for Uggla.