There were three players who were unquestionably good hitters on the 2008 Atlanta Braves. You can live with that, with enough ordinary hitters, but the Braves didn’t have enough of that, plus their three good hitters were:
Read the rest of this entry »According to MLBTR, the Braves have mentioned that the payroll will increase in ‘09 and the team will have roughly around $45 million to spend this off season with that amount coming off the books. Most of the money freed up looks to be going toward starting pitching, as it should after this season of injury-ridden pitchers falling off one-by-one. Some names mentioned as possibilities for the rotation next year are as follows: Derek Lowe, A.J. Burnett, Matt Cain, Brad Penny, and Ryan Dempster. All of these are better than the fill-ins we used this past season, but some of those guys could possibly be re-signed to their respective teams. The Braves would also like to try to re-sign Smoltz, Glavine, and Hampton. I don’t see them signing all three, though, unless their contracts were incentive-based or decreased a bit (mainly Hampton for the latter).
Read the rest of this entry »To be honest, a postmortem was indicated when Hudson went down and the team officially died; the corpse is starting to smell.
Read the rest of this entry »One of the few bright spots for the Braves this season has been the play of Chipper Jones. Chipper completed the year with a batting average of .364. Which was good enough for him to win his first Batting Title. He beat out Albert Pujols, who hit .357.
Read the rest of this entry »This is the fifth year in a row that the Braves’ season has ended against Houston. Personally, I am sick of it, and the stupid train, and the ridiculous left field wall. Blech.
Read the rest of this entry »Remember what I said about this team yesterday? Unpredictable. They win, they lose, they score a ton of runs, they score none. I don’t get it. I don’t think I’ll ever it get it. All that matters is the Braves put a beat-down on the Astros and get to close out their season tomorrow.
Read the rest of this entry »I think it became evident early on in the season that this team would be hard to define and understand. They can suck for a large part of the season, then, seemingly out of nowhere, take two of three against teams that have given them trouble in the past in heroic fashion, and then go back to sucking so hard again. Last night was one in the last category.
Read the rest of this entry »This may be the least watched televised Braves game ever. Is anyone in the state of Georgia watching this?
Read the rest of this entry »SEC Picks for this week, as always guaranteed to be actual picks. Road teams in crimson.
Read the rest of this entry »I was able to get some Rookie Hazing pictures while at the ballpark on Sunday for the last home game. To view them, please go over to Braves Love, who featured them in one big post. My comments are in that post as well. The rest of my pictures will be up later in my review post whenever I sit down and write it, lol. I’m hoping to do so before school starts Tuesday, so that will be out of the way, but I haven’t done so yet.
Read the rest of this entry »It took virtually the entire season, but it looks like we finally figured out how to beat the phils, get lots of hits, score lots of run, pull Jojo early.
Read the rest of this entry »Sorry for the lateness of this recap, things have been mad around here. But, the Braves tried to put a crimp in the phil play off hopes, much like they did the mets. Time will tell if they were successful.
Read the rest of this entry »If the Phillies win the World Series, Phillies fans will still boo them next year the first time they lose two games in a row. And I’m all right with that.
Read the rest of this entry »I have two tomato plants. One has grape tomatoes and the bees love it and and I have lots of grape tomatoes. The other is supposed to have regular tomatoes but the bees won’t touch it. They’re right next to each other. I blame the neighbors.
Read the rest of this entry »The season is rapidly wrapping up, which should lead to a bit more free time for me. Less games to watch, but I have gotten out of the habit and I get a respite from writing the recaps. I was rather hoping the Braves would put something together in the closing days, but I am beginning to lose that optimism.
Read the rest of this entry »“Tourette” would be a good name for one of those dogs that barks for no reason.
It seems the only team we can beat on a regular basis is the mets. That is good when we play the mets, not so got when we play any other team. Well, taking two of three from them this close to the end of the season is nice.
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