Spring Training 2015

Dalyn said:
Callaspo. :mad0182:
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Still holding out hope that Hart & Company will admit the mistake and swallow the $3 million. KJ can handle both positions you'd keep Callaspo on the roster for PLUS the OF spots AND provide some pop. If you're going to carry a utility guy who's NOT hitting, you might as well carry one that can provide more flexibility and hit one over the fence every once in awhile.
 
Went back to the 'Braves sign Callaspo' thread to find people who vehemently defended the signing to call out (here's looking at you, yeezus) and came across this gem:

12-9-14
Joel Sherman
@Joelsherman1
#Braves have been looking to K less and so like contact skills of Callaspo. Also that hired personal trainer with goal of losing 20 lbs

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Best guess, he started ****ing the personal trainer.
 
Hawk said:
Went back to the 'Braves sign Callaspo' thread to find people who vehemently defended the signing to call out (here's looking at you, yeezus) and came across this gem:

12-9-15
Joel Sherman
@Joelsherman1
#Braves have been looking to K less and so like contact skills of Callaspo. Also that hired personal trainer with goal of losing 20 lbs

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Best guess, he started ****ing the personal trainer.
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That looks like one too many *s for eat.
 
I don't mind defending the signing, and I think it's far from a failed signing already. It's spring training. See all those guys with great numbers? They mean just as much as the guys with bad numbers. I'd still like to have him on the bench.
 
yeezus said:
I don't mind defending the signing, and I think it's far from a failed signing already. It's spring training. See all those guys with great numbers? They mean just as much as the guys with bad numbers. I'd still like to have him on the bench.
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He was pretty close to a failed signing the minute he was signed. I watched him play for the A's a lot last year. Just terrible. Looked worse than BJ.
 
yeezus said:
I don't mind defending the signing, and I think it's far from a failed signing already. It's spring training. See all those guys with great numbers? They mean just as much as the guys with bad numbers. I'd still like to have him on the bench.
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clvclv said:
Still holding out hope that Hart & Company will admit the mistake and swallow the $3 million. KJ can handle both positions you'd keep Callaspo on the roster for PLUS the OF spots AND provide some pop. If you're going to carry a utility guy who's NOT hitting, you might as well carry one that can provide more flexibility and hit one over the fence every once in awhile.
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Exceptionally well said.
 
Hawk said:
Went back to the 'Braves sign Callaspo' thread to find people who vehemently defended the signing to call out (here's looking at you, yeezus) and came across this gem:

12-9-15
Joel Sherman
@Joelsherman1
#Braves have been looking to K less and so like contact skills of Callaspo. Also that hired personal trainer with goal of losing 20 lbs

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Best guess, he started ****ing the personal trainer.
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I assume ****ing stands for eating?
 
sturg33 said:
I'd prefer Callaspo to CJ at third
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This absolutely astonishes me. Range is about the same, but (and this might be the other context in which I can type this with a straight face) Johnson is a better fielder. Granted, Johnson at his worst at the plate (.251 BA in 2011) is worse than Callaspo at his best, (.288, also in 2011) but that’s about the strongest argument you can make.

I can’t even conceive of a scenario where Callaspo is likely to bounce back even to what CJ was last year, and I fully expect at least something of an improvement from CJ.

Don’t mean to sound dickish here, I’m just trying to see the argument.
 
JohnAdcox said:
This absolutely astonishes me. Range is about the same, but (and this might be the other context in which I can type this with a straight face) Johnson is a better fielder. Granted, Johnson at his worst at the plate (.251 BA in 2011) is worse than Callaspo at his best, (.288, also in 2011) but that’s about the strongest argument you can make.

I can’t even conceive of a scenario where Callaspo is likely to bounce back even to what CJ was last year, and I fully expect at least something of an improvement from CJ.

Don’t mean to sound dickish here, I’m just trying to see the argument.
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Callaspo is actually a pretty good defender at third while CJ is among the worst in baseball so I don't even know where to begin on that point.

Hitting wise, neither are very good.

If you are going young, the Callaspo singing doesn't really make sense. But, I could see singing Callaspo if you were able to get a bag of used balls for CJ.
 
clvclv said:
Still holding out hope that Hart & Company will admit the mistake and swallow the $3 million. KJ can handle both positions you'd keep Callaspo on the roster for PLUS the OF spots AND provide some pop. If you're going to carry a utility guy who's NOT hitting, you might as well carry one that can provide more flexibility and hit one over the fence every once in awhile.
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I agree, KJ is the only one with power in that mix. I would think they'd want the possibility of some kind of power on the bench. But they are moving in a supposed different direction.
 
Hawk said:
Went back to the 'Braves sign Callaspo' thread to find people who vehemently defended the signing to call out (here's looking at you, yeezus) and came across this gem:

12-9-15
Joel Sherman
@Joelsherman1
#Braves have been looking to K less and so like contact skills of Callaspo. Also that hired personal trainer with goal of losing 20 lbs

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Best guess, he started ****ing the personal trainer.
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No, that would have actually burned some calories.
 
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