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I don't care how fat he is. He can still get outs and eat innings when you need him to. You just have to put him in in situations where you figure he'll give up one run every two innings. He's a great pickup, as long as he's used right.
 
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Nice win tonight. Glad I got to watch from the 6th on.

Hopefully Beachy gets us the sweep tomorrow.

You always take a road series win.
 
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Remember when McCann kept stepping out of the box and Moyer kept stepping off and he turned around and said something to Chipper last night? Apparently Moyer was accusing Chipper of stealing signs and our old guy got really pissed at their old guy.

"That was all on Jamie Moyer," Jones said. "He woke a sleeping giant tonight. He started chirping and it went all downhill from there. He accused me of relaying a sign down 6-2 with a 3-0 count to Brian McCann. I have never relayed a sign to anyone while I'm on second base."

"You question our integrity, that's wrong," Jones said. "I've never accused him of doctoring a baseball. I've never accused him of over-milligraming, nothing. That's [garbage] and he woke us up. I didn't see any signs on the 900-foot homers that were hit."
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GAVol said:
Remember when McCann kept stepping out of the box and Moyer kept stepping off and he turned around and said something to Chipper last night? Apparently Moyer was accusing Chipper of stealing signs and our old guy got really pissed at their old guy.
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I thought something was up. They looked like heated words.
 
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Hmmm. Things could get testy in Denver this afternoon. Here are some other random observations:

1. Chipper, although he'll never maintain this pace, is on pace for 28 HR, 121 RBI, 81 R, and only 40 K over 104 games/381 ABs.

2. Diaz and Hinske have made for a formidable OF platoon, hitting about .350 combined with 3 HR and 12 RBI and an OPS of about .950 over 65 ABs.

3. Durbin is 2-0 3.38 in his last 10 appearances.

4. The Braves team statistics rank no lower than 8th in the majors in any major offensive statistical category (HR, RBI, R, AVG, OBP, SLUG, OPS, Steals), but are near the bottom in most pitching categories. Defensively, they're mostly middle of the pack.

It is also still my opinion that Chipper is the best 2-hole hitter on this team. Maybe if he can get his knee to a point that he can play at least 3 out of every 4 games they'll leave him at 2 and bump Prado to 6.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Regardless of what I think about his contract, I've spent my whole adult life rooting for Chipper. I don't hate the guy at all. I still think he's a really good hitter when he plays. I'm just saying let's not be giggly little girls. Two RBIs off what he did with that pitch is a gift.
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The box score reflected both hits to be sharp line-drives to CF. Maybe that's just how I read it though.
 
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GAVol said:
Remember when McCann kept stepping out of the box and Moyer kept stepping off and he turned around and said something to Chipper last night? Apparently Moyer was accusing Chipper of stealing signs and our old guy got really pissed at their old guy.
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God, Chipper is the man.
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I'm paraphrasing, but he also said something like- "Everything he throws is 78mph so there's really no point in relaying anything."
 
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Love it. Would love to see the pitching come around and the hitting stay this good all year. A deep run would be awesomeness.
 
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The starting pitching has been very average, but it hasn't been a big deal since the offense is producing and the starters have managed to get deep enough into games that the bullpen hasn't gotten fried.
 
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Yea, but they can't continue to hope to win games by avg 8 or 10 runs a game either. How many innings are the starters averaging anyways? Can't be much better than last year I wouldn't think...
 
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@Jim_Powell: Evan Gattis' 1st 99 AB's of '12(A+AA): .384/.457/.838 12 HR 37 RBI 11 BB 15 K. The low K rate lends good credibility to the rest of the #'s.

@Jim_Powell: Andrelton Simmons 1st 99 AA at-bats in '12: .323/.378/.424 9 BB 10 K 6 SB 1 CS. He's only committed one error. #Braves

@Braves: Today's lineup at COL (3:10, FSS/680AM/BRN): Bourn 8 Prado 7 Freeman 3 Uggla 4 Heyward 9 Francisco 5 Ross 2 Pastornicky 6 Beachy 1
 
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#Braves Chipper said Moyer "paranoid" about players stealing signs because he (Moyer) comes from a team, #Phillies, that always does it.
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#Braves Chipper said Moyer came to bat and told McCann, "that (stealing signs) is how people get
hurt." #Braves were p'd off by that.
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Vercingetorix said:
Neither of the guys who mouthed off about it is in the lineup. Who's going to throw at whom?
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Neither of the guys last night, Prado and whoever from the Rockies that plunked him, mouthed off about anything. Moyer crossed the line by mouthing off to McCann about "that's how people get hurt".
 
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