Yeah, and that is why he is a good player.
Is it too early to give up on BJ Upton?
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Yeah, and that is why he is a good player.
mossy
<B>Hysterical Girlfriend<BR>That Storms Out and</B
We just won a series in Milwaukee, a series we REALLY needed to show something in before heading to DC. Dan Uggla is showing signs of life, and we got 6+ innings of no hit ball from the least likely source.
Are we seriously writing off BJ after THREE GAMES???
If we got swept, perhaps, but we have much bigger fish to fry. Worst case, put him in the 9 hole and continue with everything else.
Guys, life is short, way too short. Focus on the positives. It's not like we are relying on BJ to be Dale Murphy in the year 1987. This team is nothing but promise.
Are we seriously writing off BJ after THREE GAMES???
If we got swept, perhaps, but we have much bigger fish to fry. Worst case, put him in the 9 hole and continue with everything else.
Guys, life is short, way too short. Focus on the positives. It's not like we are relying on BJ to be Dale Murphy in the year 1987. This team is nothing but promise.
AUTiger7222
Called Up to the Major Leagues
I would enjoy it a lot more if it came over the course of 6 good months instead of 2 great months and 4 bad ones.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
But it doesn't make a difference. Because of Justin ripping the tits off the ball we were able to coast all season basically on his back from that first month. Being better over a whole season vs part of the season has no proven advantage.
In a theory discussion let's say over the course of a season Justin Upton is worth 60 runs.
If he scores 20 in April and August and 5 in May, June, July and September that's the same 60 runs as him scoring 12 every month. Only thing that comes with consistency is it stops belly aching fans. Pretty much every player slumps. Justin slumped pretty hard, but he made up for it by being insanely hot twice. That happens with many players. It's the nature of the sport.
Uggla hit quite a few home runs in blowout games (losing and winning), so there's no way to quantify how less important his homers were. You look at the overall slash line and he has a lot, but I don't care for the ones he hits when we're losing 8-3 and it's a solo shot.
Justin I agree we all saw how his amazing April allowed us to coast the rest of the year.
Justin I agree we all saw how his amazing April allowed us to coast the rest of the year.
sturg33
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I recall you saying this last year and I don't think it's true.
Not everyone HR can be a walk off. But I believe Uggla had a "normal" amount of timely HRs
Your hatred of Prado continues to be on a borderline moronic level.
The guy is a career .292/.341/.430 hitter and plays 2B, 3B, LF. How many "great bench players" do that?
Dalyn
Fredi Gonzalez Supporter
I don't hate him; I just don't like him as a starter. The guy proves my point every year.
By being an above average starter?
Yeah, a great $11MM bench player.
Dalyn
Fredi Gonzalez Supporter
I am not going to argue about Prado with you AGAIN. It is pointless. I personally don't like him as a starter for the Braves (and CERTAINLY not at his current salary).
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Dalyn really does have an irrational hate of Prado, I assume he's trolling at this point.
What do those have to do with your statement that he's a "great bench player/average (at best) starter?"
Dalyn
Fredi Gonzalez Supporter
Hate has nothing to do with it. I don't hate any baseball player.
Dalyn
Fredi Gonzalez Supporter
His career #'s as a 3B - .274 .326 .373 .699 So, for his career he is a below average 3B by your own measure.
So his numbers at other positions don't count?
I have a suspicion you don't know what tOPS+ means.