Archive for August, 2009
Daily Heyward Update
Jason Heyward has finally cooled off a bit. In his last four games he is 2-14 with no XBH. He has walked three times and only struck out twice though while adding two steals, one of which was a steal of home. None of this is very shocking since we knew he had to come back to earth at some point.
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Rasmus runs hitless streak to 14 innings
Cory has had two starts in a row now without giving up a hit. He tossed 5 more hitless innings on Sunday to extend his hitless innings streak to 14. He did however walk 4 and gave up 2 EARNED runs. Good to see Cory rounding back into form after all his injury problems. Read the rest of this entry »
Let’s burn down Shane Victorino’s house game thread: August 16, Phillies at Braves
Alabama and Tennessee previews are up at SEC Previews.
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We all knew this time would come, when someone would come a long and take over the leadership role on the Braves. For so long, Chipper was/is still the leader but there is someone else stepping up and taking on that leadership role, that someone is 24 yr old, Brian McCann.
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Catching Fire at the Right Moment
We all knew that the 7 game road trip to the West Coast was going to be very important for the Braves. Even if we came back home 4-3, that would have been a some what successful road trip considering we were playing the Padres and the ML Leading Dodgers. Who knew after Sunday's game that the Braves would return home with a 5-2 road record especially taking the last 3 from the Dodgers?
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Rasmus tosses a no-no
Former Braves first round pick(2006) Cory Rasmus threw a 7 inning no-hitter last night for Danville. Cory only walked one and struck out nine in the D-Braves 13-0 victory.
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Daily Heyward Update
The Mississippi Braves were rained out last night, so no JH update today.
Season stats: (AA) .405/.485/.730, 12 2B, 3 3B, 6 HR, 24 RBI, 1 SB, 17 BB, 12 K, 1.215 OPS
Season stats: (AA) .405/.485/.730, 12 2B, 3 3B, 6 HR, 24 RBI, 1 SB, 17 BB, 12 K, 1.215 OPS
Schedule makers on acid game thread: Aug. 12, Nats at Braves
Seriously, an off day, a two game series, then another off day?
I really hope our season doesn’t run off the rails against the fricking Nats game thread: Aug. 11, Nats at Braves
No, John, the gag goes over Yoko’s mouth.
Daily Heyward Update
Jason went 1-4 with an RBI triple and a run scored last night in a 8-2 loss.
Season stats: (AA) .405/.485/.730, 12 2B, 3 3B, 6 HR, 24 RBI, 1 SB, 17 BB, 12 K, 1.215 OPS
Season stats: (AA) .405/.485/.730, 12 2B, 3 3B, 6 HR, 24 RBI, 1 SB, 17 BB, 12 K, 1.215 OPS
Daily Heyward Update
Had a busy weekend and missed the last few Heyward updates. Apparantly I missed some good ones because the kid just continues to rake. In his last three games he is 5-13 with 6 R, a double and 2 HR. One of his homers came yesterday on his 20th birthday. Most likely the last birthday he will celebrate in the minors.
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This would be a good time for a complete game shutout by Vazquez game thread: Aug. 9, Braves at Dodgers
And please, let Soriano rest his arm. Please?
Roid rage game thread: Aug. 8, Braves at Dodgers
The other thing that strikes me about the discussion of “steroids” is that anything can get blamed on them. If a player gets hurt, he was on steroids; but if a player stays healthy, that could also be steroids. (The latter, contrary to popular opinion, is far more likely.) If a player has a big year, he was juicing; if he has a bad year, that means he stopped juicing. If a player’s career ends suddenly, it’s because he was taking steroids and his body fell apart, but if a player’s career lasts a long time, it’s because he was taking steroids to keep his body from falling apart. Hitters took over the game? It must have been steroids. I can guarantee you, if pitchers had taken over the game in the last twenty years, that would have been blamed on steroids, too.
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Let’s talk about the aging process in baseball, and how it relates to anabolic steroid use. Simply put (absurdly simply) there are two processes at work in a player’s career; for simplicity’s sake, let’s call them athleticism and skill. A player’s athleticism probably increases slightly early in a baseball career, but by the age of 25 or so it’s peaked. (There is some variation, of course.) A player’s skill, on the other hand, tends to increase throughout his career, with the exception of someone like Shawon Dunston, or (perhaps, we’ll see) Jeff Francoeur, whose skills flatline early on and never improve. Again, this is a simplification. For instance, strength tends to improve well into the thirties, barring injury, so it’s part of “skill” by this definition, but you wouldn’t normally think of it this way.
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