Paul Mac might be the second biggest petite Braves fan I know (myself included) and the biggest petite ATLANTA Braves fan. Heck the guy even used to host the Braves post-game show! He knows what he is talking about! (And what he doesn't, he has the Score Atlanta Braves beat writer backing him up!)
I had a guy actually bring up Colorado's 21 game winning streak as if that just happens all the time. Um. Colorado could hit and Matt Holliday has been eerily quiet even though he plays in Oakland.
This is where cliches just kill people. Pitching wins championships... great pitching beats great hitting..... um. No. NO IT DOESN'T!
Great pitching keeps you in games. Offense wins it for you. Atlanta was in the postseason what, 15 straight years... why? Pitching. But they only won once...even when they had their best offensive years because the other teams...always hit better than we did. Philly won last year... because they had better more consistent offensive players.
Now you want to trade the actual good acquisition in the off season in Vasquez and your only true starting shortstop in the Organization in Escobar for an outfield stick you could have had in February? That's just dumb. That article (Mark Bradley's in the AJC, discussing who the Braves should trade for. Options included Matt Holliday from Oakland, Mark Teahan from KC, Adrian Gonzalez from San Diego) was just ripping from ESPN though.
Adrian Gonzalez is the best player in San Diego. They aren't going to do us any favors... and trading for him would leave you without a shortstop and the best performing member of your rotation right now.... dumb.
The Braves are dull and they are going to be dull if they don't exercise patience which I believe they will, but Wren is going to HAVE to ask for more money next year. If they had 16-20 HR's in left (whatever Dunn has right now), they could certainly be at .500 or better at this point. He's no worse in left than Anderson.
Once again this year, halfway point.... non-competitive. I guess I can't complain though for 15 years a lot of fun players to watch have played here.
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