Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
I expect the Nats will gap us pretty soon, and the number of teams we'd have to climb over for a WC spot is beyond this team's capacity, IMO. Still, the .500 mark is nice to see.
Hart says "Stay Tuned"
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I expect the Nats will gap us pretty soon, and the number of teams we'd have to climb over for a WC spot is beyond this team's capacity, IMO. Still, the .500 mark is nice to see.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Yeah and thats fine, no one expected the Braves to be that great this year.
They're a year ahead of the rebuild process, and are poised to make a run at the division next year depending what happens next winter.
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
That's my thought. If Vizcaino shows he can be the set-up guy, I could easily see Grilli or Johnson being traded and I think there will be a market for both of those guys. We're not going to net anything great from dealing those guys, but I could see them getting a helpful piece.
Braves1976
It's OVER 5,000!
If Viz looks as good in the Majors as he did his last game for Mississippi I'd give him a shot at closing for us. He looked great and velocity on his fastball was 97-99 mph (averaging 98 mph and last fastball was 99 mph). I know Hart said he had been hitting 100 mph too, but he was mostly 98 mph with his high 99 mph that night.
Was his control good?
Braves1976
It's OVER 5,000!
Yes, it was on this night. I cannot speak to his other rehab games though as I've only seen him once so far.
PS: I had heard before hand that Hart said he'd been hitting 100 mph but I thought maybe Hart was overstating things. Then I saw him averaging 98 mph and topping out at 99 mph with good control too. That was impressive but still only one game.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-braves-nba-style-rebuild/
This is a good article and sums up how the rebuild went. People can disagree with the strategy of blowing up a good team (me), but after that was decided, the majority of moves appear to be good ones. The challenge ahead is molding prospects into success at the major league level and/or signing quality free agents.
In the course of taking on so many “toxic” assets (quotes because of Maybin’s awesome turnaround), Atlanta has acquired a high volume of premium prospects in an incredibly short span of time. Unlike Jeff Luhnow’s Astros or Dayton Moore’s Royals — two teams which had to be rebooted basically from scratch — the Braves already had a contention-worthy nucleus in place. Instead of wandering in the desert for three or four years, their efforts over the last eight months look like an incredibly effective one-year pivot, sped up exponentially by the team’s willingness to temporarily hold a bad contract.
This is a good article and sums up how the rebuild went. People can disagree with the strategy of blowing up a good team (me), but after that was decided, the majority of moves appear to be good ones. The challenge ahead is molding prospects into success at the major league level and/or signing quality free agents.
In the course of taking on so many “toxic” assets (quotes because of Maybin’s awesome turnaround), Atlanta has acquired a high volume of premium prospects in an incredibly short span of time. Unlike Jeff Luhnow’s Astros or Dayton Moore’s Royals — two teams which had to be rebooted basically from scratch — the Braves already had a contention-worthy nucleus in place. Instead of wandering in the desert for three or four years, their efforts over the last eight months look like an incredibly effective one-year pivot, sped up exponentially by the team’s willingness to temporarily hold a bad contract.