Sims Vs Phillies; Newcomb vs cards

Garmel said:
Newcomb's getting a little wild this inning.
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Didn't finish well, but has done plenty to give us more to be confident about.

Tucker's done all he needed to do by now as well IMO. He's arguably been our best scrap-heap pickup in a while.
 
bravesfanforlife88 said:
loved the phillies announcer saying "I wish he would have run the bases in stead of watching the ball..." if i'm not mistaken, earlier in the at bat there was a FB high and in
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We are about 15 years from baseball being actually enjoyable to watch on TV as soon as all these curmudgeons go the way of the dodo.
 
Given how little worried I am about Labies and Acuna, there isn’t a more important player on the team than Swanson. If he rebounds from his miserable first year and lives up to his prospect hype, we have five legitimate All star quality regulars in Acuna, Albies, Freeman, Inciarte, and Freeman. That’s an amazing core that would be under control for a long time.

Besides that, Swanson still is the hometown Georgia suburban kid and we all know that’s the image the Braves wanted with their white flight move.
 
chop2chip said:
Given how little worried I am about Labies and Acuna, there isn’t a more important player on the team than Swanson. If he rebounds from his miserable first year and lives up to his prospect hype, we have five legitimate All star quality regulars in Acuna, Albies, Freeman, Inciarte, and Freeman. That’s an amazing core that would be under control for a long time.

Besides that, Swanson still is the hometown Georgia suburban kid and we all know that’s the image the Braves wanted with their white flight move.
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You said Freeman twice, lol.

I don't see him becoming an all star caliber player, but perhaps he becomes a good complimentary player.
 
GeorgiaGirl said:
You said Freeman twice, lol.

I don't see him becoming an all star caliber player, but perhaps he becomes a good complimentary player.
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I use the term all star loosely. Generally I view anyone capable of a 4 WAR season as all star caliber. Dansby, if he cuts down on the errors, is a good defender and he provides good base running value, so it really is up to his offensive ability. He’s shown the ability to draw walks, so that also helps.

For me, it comes down to his power. If he’s merely a singles hitter like he was last year then I don’t think he’s anything more than 2 WAR guy. He seems like the type of guy that would really benefit from a hitting coach that really worked with him on his launch angle.
 
chop2chip said:
I use the term all star loosely. Generally I view anyone capable of a 4 WAR season as all star caliber. Dansby, if he cuts down on the errors, is a good defender and he provides good base running value, so it really is up to his offensive ability. He’s shown the ability to draw walks, so that also helps.

For me, it comes down to his power. If he’s merely a singles hitter like he was last year then I don’t think he’s anything more than 2 WAR guy. He seems like the type of guy that would really benefit from a hitting coach that really worked with him on his launch angle.
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Swanson probably needs to make consistent hard contact vs breaking balls before he worries about altering his launch angle.
 
I guess Gomez would prefer to pitch in the Yankees' minor league system. Maybe he's got a steady squeeze in Scranton or Wilkes-Barre.
 
Enscheff said:
Swanson probably needs to make consistent hard contact vs breaking balls before he worries about altering his launch angle.
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Never played baseball growing up, so hitting mechanics aren’t really my area of expertise, so I’ll defer to you on that one.

On a more general level, I think there are more success outcomes where Dansby is a .260/.350/.400 hitter rather than a .300/.390/.390 guy. Not to suggest I wouldn’t take the latter over the former, just that I think the former is a more likely outcome. I feel at times previous Braves administrations really pushed their guys to be high average singles hitters to their detriment (think Simmons).
 
chop2chip said:
I use the term all star loosely. Generally I view anyone capable of a 4 WAR season as all star caliber. Dansby, if he cuts down on the errors, is a good defender and he provides good base running value, so it really is up to his offensive ability. He’s shown the ability to draw walks, so that also helps.

For me, it comes down to his power. If he’s merely a singles hitter like he was last year then I don’t think he’s anything more than 2 WAR guy. He seems like the type of guy that would really benefit from a hitting coach that really worked with him on his launch angle.
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When he first started making adjustments he lost what power he had even when he hit well in August last year. Was too worried about the slider so he overcompensated.
There was an article earlier that was very interesting, saying that the new things he's doing to work on his swing can conceivably help him have a power breakout if it works, comparing it to what Cozart did (even though he used to play in that ridiculous smallpark). But still, he needs to figure out what to do against breaking balls. I think he rebounds some this year but still has issues against breaking balls, which means a .240-.260 average.
 
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