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Bourn on base for the fourth time. Hopefully they can get him in. Will really put the pressure on the dbacks to make it a one-run ballgame.
 
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TBrown said:
Common sense. Delgado to the pen would be an absolute waste and give credence to the incompetence some people try to assign to our front office. There's a zero percent Bourn is the ATL CF next season.
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True.

And true.

Unless Bourn takes a discount. Which seems highly unlikely.
 
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Scotty's Flat Top said:
Why? Maybe because we could have shifted some of that enormous salary for someone who could actually play more than 2 games a week. I love Chipper, but maybe he should take some of the advice that he gave to Heyward last year.
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If you go a few years back in this thread, I howled when they gave Chipper that extension, and this is why. They were committing several years of full-time money for a guy that was clearly never going to be more than a part-time player again. But that's on the Braves, not Chipper. I don't really blame him for taking the money. (Although at some point, I'd think that if you're a man, you'd have more pride than that, but whatever.)
 
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TBrown said:
Common sense. Delgado to the pen would be an absolute waste and give credence to the incompetence some people try to assign to our front office. There's a zero percent Bourn is the ATL CF next season.
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I know dude, I was just yanking your chain.. But I wouldn't be surprised if he is in the pen come September, same for Teheran. (when rosters expand)
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If you go a few years back in this thread, I howled when they gave Chipper that extension, and this is why. They were committing several years of full-time money for a guy that was clearly never going to be more than a part-time player again. But that's on the Braves, not Chipper. I don't really blame him for taking the money. (Although at some point, I'd think that if you're a man, you'd have more pride than that, but whatever.)
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We are on the same page my friend
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If you go a few years back in this thread, I howled when they gave Chipper that extension, and this is why. They were committing several years of full-time money for a guy that was clearly never going to be more than a part-time player again. But that's on the Braves, not Chipper. I don't really blame him for taking the money. (Although at some point, I'd think that if you're a man, you'd have more pride than that, but whatever.)
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Again, the Braves gave him the deal because of the deal he took in 2000, which severely underpaid him.
 
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zjcvols said:
Unless Bourn takes a discount. Which seems highly unlikely.
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The only reason you have Scott Boras as your agent is to wring every last dollar that you can out of the process that you can. The Braves don't pay market value to free agents anymore. He isn't coming back.

Similarly, I guarantee that the Braves started looking at Tommy Hanson in a different light the second that he switched to Boras last year.
 
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And now there is this..

@ajcbraves: #Braves Chipper did not look good limping in the clubhouse after the game. When I asked if he was OK, he said, "I'm living."

Really pulling for Chip to play this year, but I am afraid he isnt goin to make it too much longer
 
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zjcvols said:
Again, the Braves gave him the deal because of the deal he took in 2000, which severely underpaid him.
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He's been a part-time player for most of a decade and he's made at least $12m a year the whole time. He made $16m to play 109 games in 2005. Only Mrs. Jones would call him "severely underpaid."

The $14m/year contract the Braves gave him in 2009 was flat-out idiocy.
 
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The Yankees can afford to give a valedictory contract to Derek Jeter, because if he sucks and you have to eat it, who cares? The Braves cannot. They committed almost 20 percent of their budget for three years to an ancient guy who gets hurt all the time and can't stay in the lineup. It's the single dumbest-at-the-time move the Braves have made since the days of Len Barker and Bruce Sutter.
 
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Scotty's Flat Top said:
And now there is this..

@ajcbraves: #Braves Chipper did not look good limping in the clubhouse after the game. When I asked if he was OK, he said, "I'm living."

Really pulling for Chip to play this year, but I am afraid he isnt goin to make it too much longer
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Let's just say I am appreciating every at bat I see Chipper.
 
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@MinorLeagueBlog: #Braves Sean Gilmartin went 8IP, 2ER, 6H, 1BB, 4K for AA Mississippi

Gilmartin quietly impressing. Bright future and tons of value for the lefty
 
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In 1976, though, Murphy was being touted as the next Johnny Bench. He had the prerequisites: a live bat and a rifle arm. He also had a new religion, and he wanted to serve a two-year mission, as young members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints frequently do. Ted Turner, owner of the Braves, got wind of this and asked Murphy's parents if he could talk to Dale. They said yes, but be careful, Dale's very serious about this. So Turner reached Murphy in Portland and the first thing he said was, "What's all this Mormon stuff? If you need to make converts, I'll let you work on me and my five kids."
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Oh Ted Turner, you brought the LULZ.
 
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