The Atlanta Braves (thread 1)

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NYYVol said:
Pretty certain it's going to be pretty bad. Thats almost a universal reaction which often leads to a Dr. James Andrews reference.
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They just said the magic words; "ulnar collateral ligament". Hopefully it's just a strain and Medlen didn't just become the latest member of the Tommy John club.

Looks like Kenshin Kawakami just rejoined the rotation.
 
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GAVol said:
They just said the magic words; "ulnar collateral ligament". Hopefully it's just a strain and Medlen didn't just become the latest member of the Tommy John club.
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His best hope is that it's inflammation related to the ball that hit him in Cincy.
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Its one thing to play bad baseball and lose the pennant race....but its another thing to become so injured that you have no chance.

I hope neither of those options are the Bravos fate.
 
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OrangeWilly said:
Its one thing to play bad baseball and lose the pennant race....but its another thing to become so injured that you have no chance.

I hope neither of those options are the Bravos fate.
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This time of year it's all about overcoming injuries.
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OrangeWilly said:
Its one thing to play bad baseball and lose the pennant race....but its another thing to become so injured that you have no chance.

I hope neither of those options are the Bravos fate.
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The Phillies seem to do be doing all right, and the players they've had hurt are a lot better than the Braves that have been hurt.
 
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“No pop or anything, it just started burning, really tight,” Medlen said. “I don’t know. I’ve never felt it before, so it was reason for some kind of concern.”

He gets an MRI tomorrow.

DOB thinks they will bring up Mike Minor instead of plugging Kawakami back into the rotation
 
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hatvol96 said:
I'll be in Atlanta for Giants-Braves tomorrow night. Looking forward to seeing Lincecum pitch for the first time in a couple of years.
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Enjoy your trip, and sorry in advance about the weather, which will probably be awful. You doing the down and back in one day?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Enjoy your trip, and sorry in advance about the weather, which will probably be awful. You doing the down and back in one day?
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Staying the night and heading back first thing Friday. The weather can't be any more oppressive than Knoxville has been for the last month.
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Kawakami hasn't been THAT bad. His won-lost record is awful, of course, but his ERA and WHIP aren't that much worse than Lowe's. (And his ERA isn't much worse than even Jurrjens's.) He was more unlucky than anything this year. He's pitched once in a month, so they're obviously not going to use him as a reliever. If they're not going to use him now that a rotation spot has opened back up, they really ought to just go ahead and release him, give him his money, and let him go back to Japan. Keeping him on the roster if you're never going to use him is just stupid.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Kawakami hasn't been THAT bad. His won-lost record is awful, of course, but his ERA and WHIP aren't that much worse than Lowe's. (And his ERA isn't much worse than even Jurrjens's.) He was more unlucky than anything this year. He's pitched once in a month, so they're obviously not going to use him as a reliever. If they're not going to use him now that a rotation spot has opened back up, they really ought to just go ahead and release him, give him his money, and let him go back to Japan. Keeping him on the roster if you're never going to use him is just stupid.
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I agree. It's not as if he's got and ERA over 5.00 and walks a lot of people. He's clearly not the #2 or #3 starter they were hoping for when they signed him, but he's very serviceable as a #5 starter.
 
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GAVol said:
I agree. It's not as if he's got and ERA over 5.00 and walks a lot of people. He's clearly not the #2 or #3 starter they were hoping for when they signed him, but he's very serviceable as a #5 starter.
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. . . and just as I post this gem, I see this. Mike Minor will start Monday for Atlanta Braves | Atlanta Braves

Might as well give him a whirl I guess. It's not like it really affects his arbitration clock . . . speaking of which, there's a certain 1st baseman at Gwinnett I'd like to see at Turner Field.
 
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Kawakami is the same thing he's always been, which is a league-average pitcher. His ERAs are always right around average. He gives up about a hit per inning. Unless you're the Yankees, he's about he quality of pitcher whom you should expect to see at the bottom of your rotation; pennants have been lost because teams couldn't find somebody as good as Kawakami to plug into the #5 slot. He's clearly overpaid for somebody who's just average, and in hindsight it was probably dumb for an organization with so many good young arms to sign somebody out of Japan to a big contract -- but at the time, the Braves' rotation was a disaster and they needed to sign somebody, anybody.

If they're not going to use him, then I don't get why they don't just eat most of his salary and trade him for whatever they can get.
 
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And just like that, Kawakami to Gwinnett to putatively "get his strength back up."

I swear, if all you did was read Mark Bradley and Jeff Schultz, you'd think Kawakami was pitching like Mark Redman. It's not his fault he's only getting three runs of support (per nine full innings, not per game) to work with.
 
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I'm stoaked to see Minor. Now all we need is Freeman and the youth movement will be complete...for this year.
 
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