zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
That's the risky thing.
Heyward update...
- Thread starter Braves1976
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That's the risky thing.
stpeteirish
Called Up to the Major Leagues
I broke my jaw once. It sucks, you can't eat. Six weeks is it. Hope he can work out some in weeks 4 and 5. I kept getting the dry heaves, pretty awful with your mouth wired shut.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
True. Odds are they won't matter anyway.
BremanFan88
Playing the Waiting Game
This absolutely sucks. Losing our best player for the rest of the season is going to be rough. I have serious doubts about how quickly you come back from this but any Heyward for the playoffs is better than no Heyward.
Bravesfannchar
Arizona Fall Leaguer
Such BS.... First, Huddy.... Now, Heyward.... GTHMets!!!!! GTH!!!!!
JusticeForAll23
Got the Call to Lynchburg
I'm really trying to think of ways to stay positive but this !@%*@& blows. Until Justin Comes back, what we'll be putting out there will barely be recognizable as an MLB lineup.
BlackwaterPark
Approaching Buddy Hernandez Territory
Ddnt he take 3 1/2 weeks to heal from a 14 day surgery?
chopdrew
Lynchburg Prospect
That's not really fair. You can do normal people stuff after 14 days. Hitting doubles and laying out for liners in the gap? Might take a little longer.
chopdrew
Lynchburg Prospect
One thing I think this does is now you have to be smarter about how much you play BJ. You have to make up those runs Heyward was creating somewhere, and BJ's not gonna do it...BTW, I apologze for any typos...this is the day off my diet/workout plan and the wife broke out the Sailor Jerry's....
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
I think Heyward going down means we shoudl stick to BJ in CF. honestly considering Schafer and Gattis have been equally sucking lately. Bossman should be plopped in the lineup and stuck in the 8 hole and just pray that he gets better. We'll need him for the stretch run.
bravesnumberone
Well-known member
So I'm guessing the lineup for now will be something like
Schafer
JUpton
Freeman
McCann
CJ
Simmons
BJ
Second base clusterfluck
Or
Simmons
JUpton
Freeman
McCann
Johnson
Gattis
BJ
second base
And when Uggla returns, put him in between Simmons and BJ or ahead of Simmons?
Schafer
JUpton
Freeman
McCann
CJ
Simmons
BJ
Second base clusterfluck
Or
Simmons
JUpton
Freeman
McCann
Johnson
Gattis
BJ
second base
And when Uggla returns, put him in between Simmons and BJ or ahead of Simmons?
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
I really hope not. But I guess we have no other choice.
Schafer has stank since coming back from the DL
I would go with
Justin
Freddie
Johnson
Mac
Simmons
Schafer
Bossman
2B (why can't La Stella just get a callup?)
bravesnumberone
Well-known member
I'm cool with trying Justin at leadoff, not so much with Freeman second, but I guess it could work. Wish BJ could get going and put him at leadoff.
JusticeForAll23
Got the Call to Lynchburg
Are you talking about the appendectomy?
Ummm...yeah. I had one when I was 13. It didn't burst or anything, but it was close, and it was miserable. Even the day or two of stomach pains that kept coming and going -- and eventually just stayed -- leading up to the surgery were excruciating. I wasn't completely bed-ridden for a week after surgery, but I was close. Then I went back to school the second week. I played basketball and was doing very light stuff during practice (shooting drills, the "get loose" passing and dribbling drills, etc.) during that week, and didn't get back to going full-speed until the 3rd week after practice. Now, obviously I wasn't a world-class athlete and was probably a bit of a wuss; but it can take about a month to get back to 100% after having an appendectomy. And even then you're not quite in the same kind of shape you were pre-surgery, so you spend another week or so working yourself back into legit game shape.
The worst part of this is, we may not be the #1 in the NL anymore. That's how valuable Heyward's defense and offense are to our team.