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Post by bravter on Aug 10, 2018 3:55:31 GMT -5
Any chance the Braves go after Patrick Corbin to add another lefty starter. I also like Pollock but wouldn't be opposed to keeping Markakis for another two years. Adding those two would be awesome. I'm not a fan of trying to sign Nick again. He's had a good enough season he's probably going to get some pretty huge offers, and I don't trust that he can do this again. He just had 5-6 subpar seasons in a row, then this outlier season. Which coincidentally was a contract year! I'm pretty sure I heard that contract year stuff doesn't really hold much weight, atleast I remember Yak making that argument back in the day. Just look at Bryce Harper. Anyways Nick will be 35. He's at the hump of when most players turn to complete shart. I agree it's time to move on. I just hope we can get a guy with power and can walk consistently. I think we should also seriously look into Michael Reed as being the real deal, where we can plug him into the lineup consistently. His OBP is over 110 points above his average for his minor league career and this year he's shown some great power. I feel like this guy would know how to battle, I just hope they don't keep going about the old Braves way with these do nothing veterans they keep signing
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Aug 10, 2018 6:12:26 GMT -5
Yeah well.... Yak also claimed once that 1500 at bats was too small of a sample size when I schooled him in an argument about some players delivering better in clutch situations... just saying. I mean didn't we sign Uggla and BJ coming off of career years? Just because not all players have a career year during their contract time season doesn't mean it doesn't happen and when it does there is usually an overpay.
On Reed; If the Braves had any real faith in him, they don't make the deal for Duvall.
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Post by keystone61 on Aug 10, 2018 7:28:23 GMT -5
Yeah well.... Yak also claimed once that 1500 at bats was too small of a sample size when I schooled him in an argument about some players delivering better in clutch situations... just saying. I mean didn't we sign Uggla and BJ coming off of career years? Just because not all players have a career year during their contract time season doesn't mean it doesn't happen and when it does there is usually an overpay. On Reed; If the Braves had any real faith in him, they don't make the deal for Duvall. Yeah, and Duvall is sitting at .203 as of right now. I never really understood the trade, unless the Braves think they can fix him somehow. He's got some pop, but he's a career .233 hitter. The only thing I can figure is that it allowed us to get SOMETHING for Sims and Wisler, who weren't gonna be on the 40 man. Can't help but think that Reed could provide as much as Duvall. Yak is a name I haven't heard in a while. He was the #1 Heyward apologist.
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Post by Drkirby on Aug 10, 2018 8:26:24 GMT -5
Yeah well.... Yak also claimed once that 1500 at bats was too small of a sample size when I schooled him in an argument about some players delivering better in clutch situations... just saying. I mean didn't we sign Uggla and BJ coming off of career years? Just because not all players have a career year during their contract time season doesn't mean it doesn't happen and when it does there is usually an overpay. On Reed; If the Braves had any real faith in him, they don't make the deal for Duvall. Yeah, and Duvall is sitting at .203 as of right now. I never really understood the trade, unless the Braves think they can fix him somehow. He's got some pop, but he's a career .233 hitter. The only thing I can figure is that it allowed us to get SOMETHING for Sims and Wisler, who weren't gonna be on the 40 man. Can't help but think that Reed could provide as much as Duvall. Yak is a name I haven't heard in a while. He was the #1 Heyward apologist. duval is dan uggla 2.0
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Post by Fumbduckery on Aug 10, 2018 9:42:05 GMT -5
We got Duvall for basically nothing. I don’t think he’s expected to be much of a part the team. I think they were hoping we’d get lucky and he would hit a few HRs for us, and be a decent RH power bat off the bench. With Ender having about a .540 OPS against LHP we don’t need Duvall to do much to be worthwhile. But I don’t think he’ll be considered a part of the core of the team at any point.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Aug 10, 2018 9:53:30 GMT -5
Yeah well.... Yak also claimed once that 1500 at bats was too small of a sample size when I schooled him in an argument about some players delivering better in clutch situations... just saying. I mean didn't we sign Uggla and BJ coming off of career years? Just because not all players have a career year during their contract time season doesn't mean it doesn't happen and when it does there is usually an overpay. On Reed; If the Braves had any real faith in him, they don't make the deal for Duvall. Yeah, and Duvall is sitting at .203 as of right now. I never really understood the trade, unless the Braves think they can fix him somehow. He's got some pop, but he's a career .233 hitter. The only thing I can figure is that it allowed us to get SOMETHING for Sims and Wisler, who weren't gonna be on the 40 man. Can't help but think that Reed could provide as much as Duvall. Yak is a name I haven't heard in a while. He was the #1 Heyward apologist. The Duvall trade isn't hard to understand. Double digit HR's from the right side of the plate. They have been looking for RH power all season (see Joey Bats). Yeah, and Duvall is sitting at .203 as of right now. I never really understood the trade, unless the Braves think they can fix him somehow. He's got some pop, but he's a career .233 hitter. The only thing I can figure is that it allowed us to get SOMETHING for Sims and Wisler, who weren't gonna be on the 40 man. Can't help but think that Reed could provide as much as Duvall. Yak is a name I haven't heard in a while. He was the #1 Heyward apologist. duval is dan uggla 2.0 Maybe from a production standpoint of some power but little else, but the deals between the two are not even in the zip code.
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