Los Bravos are *keeeeeling* me
By Jeff Emanuel Posted in Baseball — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Seriously. We "finally have a pitching rotation again this year," say those who analyze this sort of thing for a living, and then what happens? Mike Hampton strains his chest warming up for his first game in two years, Tom Glavine pulls his hamstring pitching last week, some guy I've never heard of (with one heck of a strange name -- Jair Jurrjens, is it?) is filling the spot at the back-end of the rotation and losing, and two days ago Tim Hudson gets the old "Posada arm." He was throwing as hard as he could and was inexplicably unable to crack a speed 10mph slower than his usual fastball. They pulled him in the third out of pity.
The only bright spot (John Smoltz, 3-0, 21 Ks, 0.56 ERA) is a guy who's had three elbow surgeries, missed most of the spring with a sore shoulder, and is turning 41 next month. Any bets on when he pulls a Glavine and just breaks because he's old?
Oh, and I was a vocal Andruw-Jones-is-overrated guy for years, and fully support their not resigning him this year (yeah, sure, Boras, last year was a fluke -- his .157 average with 2 RBI and 0 HR this year is killing it, and totally worth the $14M he's being paid), but rule #1 of this sort of thing has got to be replace him with someone who's actually BETTER (or at least not a class-A downgrade, which is a very difficult thing to do moving on from Andruw). Mark Kotsay's .236 average with 3 RBI and 1 HR are an upgrade offensively, but the guy can't catch a ball that's hit right at him in the outfield. At least hire somebody who can catch something to replace the human (defensive) highlight reel that was the fat kid they let go.
Jeez. It's going to be a loooooong year. I hope Marlins fans are enjoying themselves.
Bah.
by drothgery
You guys don't have a returning Cy Young winner with the worst ERA in the AL (like my original hometown Tribe), and haven't managed to lose a game where you allowed two runs in 22 innings (like the local Padres).
let me clear my throat...
by Alberta
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I dont know why, but Hampton being hurt just warms my soul.
You got the catcher who is pretty dope, you got Big Tex, got Chip, and you got Francouer. Braves have hitting no doubt, but this notion that they had pitching? Where did that come from?
Hudson and Smoltz alright, but thats it. Tommy Glavine? Are you kidding me?
I havent seen the Braves this year, keep that in mind when I say:
Mark Kotsay: FP: 1.000. I will also note that his range factor (9 * (A + PO)/ Inn) is currently 2.70 while league average is 2.68.
In real bad news, you know who is on his comparable list? Erstad!
TBS
by Darin H
I got to see them win today because I'm in the Dodger's viewing zone for Fox :)
Sunday is the only scheduled game on TBS this year...
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I hope the Braves keep keeeeeeeling you....
by Darin H
That has sure worked out pretty well. Back to .500!
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...the only bright spots currently on this team are John Smolts (699 years old) and Chipper Jones (slightly younger). Chipper had back-to-back 2 HR games the last two days, and has a BA of around 400,000. And he's averaging about....40? 60? days on the DL each of the last two years.
Great. Love depending on the old guys. Kilmer? How's that been woking out for the Yankees lately?