The Atlanta Braves (thread 1)

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GAVol said:
JJ was just scratched.

AA pitcher Brandon Beachy gets his 1st start tonight. I haven't heard the guy mentioned much, but I just heard Frank Wren on XM actually say that Beachy has the best command of anyone IN THE ORGANIZATION. Not that I doubt Wren, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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I think he a kid from Indiana. Spent most of the year at AA, but made a couple of starts at Gwinnett. I had never heard of this kid until today. Somebody told me he throws mid 90's with a servivable breaking ball. Who knows?
 
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GAVol said:
JJ was just scratched.

AA pitcher Brandon Beachy gets his 1st start tonight. I haven't heard the guy mentioned much, but I just heard Frank Wren on XM actually say that Beachy has the best command of anyone IN THE ORGANIZATION. Not that I doubt Wren, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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Hard to believe his command is going to be that great when he hasn't pitched in what, three weeks? Let's hope the Braves put some runs up tonight.
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Vercingetorix said:
Hard to believe his command is going to be that great when he hasn't pitched in what, three weeks? Let's hope the Braves put some runs up tonight.
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That three week lay off is a frightening thought. Will he have the endurance to make it 5 innings, if he throws well?
 
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MadcapLaughs said:
That three week lay off is a frightening thought. Will he have the endurance to make it 5 innings, if he throws well?
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He supposedly has been throwing on the side at the Braves Spring Training headquarters. They just said he was on standby a couple of weeks ago when Lowe was having sore arm issues.
 
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Aa far as I know, this guy wasn't in the plans for the rotation next year. Which (I believe) means now they have to carry him on the 40 man roster for a whole extra year for what might be one start. If the Braves are willing to do that, then I don't understand why they don't just go ahead and cut Kawakami and let him go on back to Japan.
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MadcapLaughs said:
Just got in, how did the kid look tonight?

errors must have hurt.
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Beachy was fine. Gave up some hard hit balls but only 1 earned run in the 2nd inning.

The 5th inning was a calamity with Heyward misplaying a line drive that must have knuckled or something and a throwing error by McCann - which really looked like a pretty decent throw, but Prado just whiffed on it.

Braves have actually hit some balls hard off Hamels, but not much luck going there way tonight.

Braves just need a base runner or two so hopefully they can get Hamels out of the game on pitch count.
 
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GAVol said:
Beachy was fine. Gave up some hard hit balls but only 1 earned run in the 2nd inning.

The 5th inning was a calamity with Heyward misplaying a line drive that must have knuckled or something and a throwing error by McCann - which really looked like a pretty decent throw, but Prado just whiffed on it.

Braves just need a base runner or two so hopefully they can get Hamels out of the game on pitch count.
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thanks. did they show the diaz play on tv? Don said he has a red spandex suit on.

Hamels change up must be on tonight.
 
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MadcapLaughs said:
thanks. did they show the diaz play on tv? Don said he has a red spandex suit on.

Hamels change up must be on tonight.
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They were doing the typical "don't show the idiot on TV thing" but after the guy got taken down by Diaz, I guess they figured it would be all over the place anyway, so they showed a replay.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I told you guys some time ago that you were being pursued by a vastly superior team.
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You weren't exactly stepping out on a limb there.

I think we all knew they were better on paper, but through the first 4 months they just hadn't been able to put it all together even when healthy.
 
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OrangeWilly said:
I doubt you ran into any argument in here at that time.
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Hat may be referring to a post I made last month about a hypothetical situation in which you took a lineup in which Infante was playing every day and added to it the Chipper who had recently started pounding the ball again (rather than the anemic, .250-hitting Chipper we'd been watching for the previous season and a half). The Phillies wouldn 't be _vastly_ superior to that theoretical Braves lineup. Too bad we never saw it on the field. As it is, I think everybody has understood all season that the Braves were a bat or two short from being a serious title contender.

The most mystifying thing about this season is why it took an injury in late August for Bobby to put Infante in the lineup every day. It wouldn't have been a cure-all, since it would have done nothing to fix the huge power deficit this team has had for a couple of years, but they would have won more games if he'd been starting most of the year.
 
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