Touki, Allard, and Fried put together a string of pretty fucking dominant starts Welcome to the future
Instructs Roster is pretty absurd. Tons of talent. http://www.baseballamerica.com/mino...tructional-league-roster/#BY0WbKs484MV5bGo.97
what i love to have #1? of course who wouldnt, and i actually said that to a buddy of mine on monday how it sucks that we wont get the #1 pick after how bad this fucking season has been. But if we are that bad at scouting and cant take a stud with the #2 overall pick then something is wrong
There are at least two elite guys at the top. We are finishing strong and will get the impact player.
Coppolella On Swanson, Free Agency, Manager By Steve Adams | September 21, 2016 at 1:20pm CDT Braves GM John Coppolella was a guest on Buster Olney’s podcast at ESPN.com today (audio link) and discussed a number of topics, including the timing of Dansby Swanson’s promotion, his expectations for free agency, what to expect from SunTrust Park, the healthy of prospect Ozzie Albies and the team’s managerial vacancy heading into the offseason. The entire interview is about 12 minutes in length and is well worth a listen in its entirety, but a couple of highlights from the interview stand out. Asked about the unorthodox timing of Swanson’s promotion to the Majors, Coppolella plainly stated that service time doesn’t factor into the team’s decision-making that often. (Notably, he pointed to the decision to have Jason Heyward on his Opening Day roster back in 2010 rather than keep him in the minors for three weeks to delay his free agency, and he pointed to Atlanta winning the Wild Card by a lone game that season as a beneficial outcome.) The Braves were in negotiations with the Tigers on August’s Erick Aybar trade, and when discussing the possibility of trading another player who was performing well at the time (Aybar hit .313/.361/.424 in the month preceding the trade), it was team president John Hart who made the suggestion to call up Swanson in his place. While Coppolella originally felt the move might be premature, vice chairman John Schuerholz quickly agreed, and as the trio talked it over, an agreement was reached to promote Swanson. The results, of course, have been excellent, as Swanson is hitting .313/.364/.424 through his first 110 big league plate appearances (a bizarrely similar line to the one Aybar produced between the All-Star break and the trade to Detroit). Swanson joins a growing core of position players that have helped the Braves movefrom the worst-hitting team in baseball in the first half to one of the best in the second half (by measure of wRC+), as Coppolella pointed out (with a tip of the cap to Fangraphs’ Jeff Sullivan). Swanson, Ender Inciarte, Freddie Freeman, Nick Markakis, Matt Kemp and Adonis Garcia have all performed quite well in the season’s second half, leading Coppolella to once again state that his focus figures to be on pitching this winter. Another focal point for the Braves early in the offseason will be determining who will manage the team on a full-time basis in 2017 and beyond. Coppolella was quick to heap praise onto interim skipper Brian Snitker for the job that he’s done since Fredi Gonzalez’s firing, explaining that all he’s done is improve his own chances at shedding the interim label. However, the Braves will still conduct a search to determine the best candidate. Again, Braves fans will want to check out the entire segment, as Coppolella offers insights into the decision-processes, preliminary testing that has been done on wind patterns in an effort to gauge how SunTrust Park will play, and the strides that have been taken by Freddie Freeman in all facets of his game this season.
Nothing better than beating the damn Mets, especially when they're trying to win a WC spot. Screw 'em. This team is pretty damn fun.
So Ender ran through a stop sign and scored the tying run on a shallow fly ball to left, drove in the go ahead run, and then ended the game with that. He may have personally ruined their season tonight.
Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN MLB play of the year nominee by Ender Inciarte: Takes a three-run homer away from Cespedes for the final out of the game.
Fun stats: Braves are 15-13 when Dansby plays Kemp is slashing .315/.357/.540 over the last 30 games Markakis is slugging +.500 over his last 15 Freddie and/or Ender is God since July Braves can hit the baseball good
Let's throw out some numbers for Ender in the second half... Average 3rd 359 OBP 6th 411 Runs 3rd 51 WAR 7th 3.2 (tied with Mookie Betts)
I honestly feel bad for the Zona GM. It feels like they got totally wrecked in that deal, but at the time it wasn't as horrendous. If Shelby had the same season as last year (and I wish he did as to take the spotlight off how bad this deal was for Zona) it wouldn't seem so so bad.
i think it was universally viewed as a bad trade at the time. not "possibly set your franchise back a few years" level bad like it looks now but pretty much everyone saw it as a terrible move when it was announced
not sure this is the first result if you google shelby miller trade: http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/66936/braves-rob-diamondbacks-in-shelby-miller-trade
yeah it was widely said to be awful: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/12/reactions-to-the-shelby-miller-trade.html
"The Diamondbacks don’t care that executives around the game think the Braves won the trade in a rout, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports writes. (“Worst trade I’ve ever seen,” said one.) The trade helps the Diamondbacks become contenders, and with Miller joining a core that includes Greinke, Paul Goldschmidt andA.J. Pollock, they’re too good to become next year’s Padres — a team that swings for the fences but misses spectacularly" 1 Dodgers 86 66 .566 - 49-28 37-38 6-4 2 Giants 80 72 .526 6.0 40-35 40-37 3-7 3 Rockies 73 79 .480 13.0 41-37 32-42 5-5 4 Padres 64 88 .421 22.0 35-39 29-49 5-5 - Diamondbacks 64 88 .421 22.0 30-48 34-40 6-4
Yeah, short of Miller becoming a perennial CY Young candidate, it was always going to be a bad deal. It also probably doesn't help that their FO continues to defend the deal and claim it wasn't a massive overpay.