joeyg39
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Post by joeyg39 on Mar 16, 2024 8:25:47 GMT -5
Grant McAuley @grantmcauley · 4h Adam Duvall was not part of the #Braves' plans when Spring Training began last month, but his arrival is a net positive for the team in so many ways – and not at all indicative of doubts about Jarred Kelenic's spring.He needs to go feed that nonsense to the casual milquetoast fans. If you're willing to invest $15.75M in a LFer for 2024 and say outright he's the LFer, and then a month into spring training, when you're baseball player guy LFer is hitting .080 you suddenly add a right handed bat, it's all about concern over Kelenic now. Not saying your assertion is not without merit, but the x factor we're overlooking is Duvall possibly being insurance for possible Acuña knee woes.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Mar 16, 2024 9:12:50 GMT -5
It’s not a good look so far for sure, especially given his history but it’s way too early to give up on him. My issue isn’t with Kelenic, or Duvall—we spent just $3M to get Duvall and we’re going to get a $3M player, nothing to get bent out of shape over nor get excited about. My issue is let’s say Kelenic breaks out and hits .280/.340/.500/.840. Did we even need that as potent as our offense was? We needed a decent reliable starting pitcher or two, and we could have used that Kelenic money to go towards that. If Sale goes on the I.L. We have the same starting pitching problem we had last year. Which is kind of stupid. If Sale and Kelenic thrive and Acuna is healthy it’s hard to imagine we wouldn’t win it all, but there's some long shots involved there. Shoring up that starting rotation would have been much more reasonable.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Mar 16, 2024 20:31:47 GMT -5
Grant McAuley @grantmcauley · 4h Adam Duvall was not part of the #Braves' plans when Spring Training began last month, but his arrival is a net positive for the team in so many ways – and not at all indicative of doubts about Jarred Kelenic's spring. You have to throw the BS flag on that. At the beginning of ST they flat out said the job was his and there was no plan to platoon.. Now before AD's plan even landed, they have written articles on how well Kelenic took it when told he would be in a platoon.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Mar 18, 2024 11:41:58 GMT -5
Husqvarna Ginkobalboa and Elder have been sent down.
Looks like the starting 5 are set.
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Post by wncbravesfan on Mar 18, 2024 18:33:27 GMT -5
Mark Bowman@mlbbowman · 3h Luke Williams was sent to Minor League camp. Thought he would fill that 26th spot. Figured it would go to somebody who won’t play. This is good news for Forrest Wall. Quote Square profile picture Atlanta Braves @braves · 3h The #Braves today reassigned C Drake Baldwin, C Chadwick Tromp, INF David Fletcher, INF Andrew Velazquez, INF Luke Williams and OF Eli White to minor league camp. Atlanta now has 28 players in camp.
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Post by wncbravesfan on Mar 21, 2024 7:58:22 GMT -5
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Post by wncbravesfan on Mar 22, 2024 20:52:16 GMT -5
@dobrienatl Snitker on struggling Jarred Kelenic, the day after his 2-for-3 game Wednesday w/ double, RBI single, line-out: "Hopefully he's relaxing. I tell you what, that little son of a bitch gets it going, he's a difference maker. Because he was flying around them bases, too... (1/2) 5:15 PM · Mar 22, 2024 · 136.1K Views See similar posts Jim Buff
David O'Brien @dobrienatl · 4h (more Snitker on Kelenic) "...I walked by him in (the clubhouse) this morning and he had a T-shirt shirt on, and it's like, oh, crap, he's built like a freaking wide receiver, or a defensive back or something." After Snitker's comments, Kelenic added a triple in Thursday's game
David O'Brien @dobrienatl · 4h More Snit on Kelenic: "The at-bat he got the double, when he's fouling all those balls off, I thought, 'Wow, that's good.' Because they weren't down the middle, they were kind of around...and he was having good whacks at it. Something as simple as that is all it takes sometimes."
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Post by wncbravesfan on Mar 22, 2024 21:37:02 GMT -5
Grant McAuley@grantmcauley · 5h The #Braves have released Charlie Culberson. The soon-to-be 35 y/o former utilityman came to Spring Training attempting to become a pitcher full-time.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Mar 23, 2024 4:17:05 GMT -5
@dobrienatl Snitker on struggling Jarred Kelenic, the day after his 2-for-3 game Wednesday w/ double, RBI single, line-out: "Hopefully he's relaxing. I tell you what, that little son of a bitch gets it going, he's a difference maker. Because he was flying around them bases, too... (1/2) 5:15 PM · Mar 22, 2024 · 136.1K Views See similar posts Jim Buff David O'Brien @dobrienatl · 4h (more Snitker on Kelenic) "...I walked by him in (the clubhouse) this morning and he had a T-shirt shirt on, and it's like, oh, crap, he's built like a freaking wide receiver, or a defensive back or something." After Snitker's comments, Kelenic added a triple in Thursday's game David O'Brien @dobrienatl · 4h More Snit on Kelenic: "The at-bat he got the double, when he's fouling all those balls off, I thought, 'Wow, that's good.' Because they weren't down the middle, they were kind of around...and he was having good whacks at it. Something as simple as that is all it takes sometimes." Yea, same old Snitker the fanboy stuff, he loves him some Kelenic, he’s fo’ sho’ one of them there baseball player guys! Let’s hope so!
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Post by PABraveFan on Mar 25, 2024 9:00:10 GMT -5
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Mar 25, 2024 19:11:42 GMT -5
He'll be up in a few weeks pitching meaningful middle relief innings.
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Post by keystone61 on Mar 27, 2024 19:44:37 GMT -5
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Mar 28, 2024 12:11:30 GMT -5
I hope MS can remain healthy.
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Post by keystone61 on Mar 29, 2024 22:48:59 GMT -5
I hope MS can remain healthy. As do I. I hate how it turned out for him here. We may face him next week.
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Post by keystone61 on Mar 29, 2024 23:00:35 GMT -5
Nope. Looks like he's pitching tomorrow.
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