Atlanta Braves for saintswhoadi

papz · 02-09-2005, 09:52 PM

The Braves are like the New England Patriots of football. No matter who they plug in, that player tends to produce.

In football defense wins championships. In baseball pitching wins championships. I don't totally disagree with you on signing a big time bopper in the outfield, but you have to control the budget wisely. When Lawyer Milloy was becoming too expensive, as will Ty Law, the Patriots cut their loses and still won. Gary Sheffield and Javy Lopez became to expensive, and were replaced with Drew and Estrada. The Braves still won the division title.

Remember when the Braves won their lone world series, the won it with outstanding pitching and timely hitting. It doesn't matter who's on your time, it's when you can get hot and get a streak going. Look at the Yankees last year, there whole team could have started for the allstar team but they still lost to the Redsox. It's all about pitching and clutch hitting. Having Sheffield and Lopez for those years didn't do anything for the Braves. They still didn't get to the world series and got the same results with whoever they plugged in. So why waste all that money knowing you will get the same results?

Like in the other thread, the Braves have 2 of the top prospects in MLB. Jeff Francoeur is supposely one of the best prospects the Braves have ever produced. That's saying something. As far as the Braves are concerned, he's as talented as Andruw Jones if not better. Andy Marte is a future 40 homer bopper who is only one year away if even. Voted by baseball america as the top hitting prospect in the game. Why not wait half a year or so? Why waste 12 plus million to sign a Maggilo Ordonez? They are only going to get the same results no matter who's there.

Remember when the Marlins won the world series they won it with an extrodinary small payroll and outstanding young pitching. Look at the players on that team who delivered in clutch situations... Jeff Conine... Josh Beckett... Carl Pavano. They weren't paid millions and millions and still got the job done.

When the Braves won their lone world series, the won it with great pitching. With the acqusition of Hudson, return of Smoltz, ever improving Hampton, a solid Thompson, and Ramirez (one of the league leaders in ERA before he got hurt), we having the makings of that world series team. The Braves need to reserve their money to keep this pitching staff intack. Let me remind you although we had David Justice and Ron Gant on that team, here are some of the hitters that contributed the most to that WS team. Mark Lemke (one of my favorite second baseman off all-time), Jeff Blauser, Sid Bream, Fransico Cabera, etc. which are hardly your household names. Omg I almost forgot Otis Nixon. Darnnit who was the catcher? Damon Berryhill? I know there were a couple of others too.

Hope it was a good read saintswhoadi ;)

[Edited on 10/2/2005 by papz]

02-09-2005, 09:52 PM	#1
papz Problem? Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New Orleans Posts: 11,771	Atlanta Braves for saintswhoadi The Braves are like the New England Patriots of football. No matter who they plug in, that player tends to produce. In football defense wins championships. In baseball pitching wins championships. I don't totally disagree with you on signing a big time bopper in the outfield, but you have to control the budget wisely. When Lawyer Milloy was becoming too expensive, as will Ty Law, the Patriots cut their loses and still won. Gary Sheffield and Javy Lopez became to expensive, and were replaced with Drew and Estrada. The Braves still won the division title. Remember when the Braves won their lone world series, the won it with outstanding pitching and timely hitting. It doesn't matter who's on your time, it's when you can get hot and get a streak going. Look at the Yankees last year, there whole team could have started for the allstar team but they still lost to the Redsox. It's all about pitching and clutch hitting. Having Sheffield and Lopez for those years didn't do anything for the Braves. They still didn't get to the world series and got the same results with whoever they plugged in. So why waste all that money knowing you will get the same results? Like in the other thread, the Braves have 2 of the top prospects in MLB. Jeff Francoeur is supposely one of the best prospects the Braves have ever produced. That's saying something. As far as the Braves are concerned, he's as talented as Andruw Jones if not better. Andy Marte is a future 40 homer bopper who is only one year away if even. Voted by baseball america as the top hitting prospect in the game. Why not wait half a year or so? Why waste 12 plus million to sign a Maggilo Ordonez? They are only going to get the same results no matter who's there. Remember when the Marlins won the world series they won it with an extrodinary small payroll and outstanding young pitching. Look at the players on that team who delivered in clutch situations... Jeff Conine... Josh Beckett... Carl Pavano. They weren't paid millions and millions and still got the job done. When the Braves won their lone world series, the won it with great pitching. With the acqusition of Hudson, return of Smoltz, ever improving Hampton, a solid Thompson, and Ramirez (one of the league leaders in ERA before he got hurt), we having the makings of that world series team. The Braves need to reserve their money to keep this pitching staff intack. Let me remind you although we had David Justice and Ron Gant on that team, here are some of the hitters that contributed the most to that WS team. Mark Lemke (one of my favorite second baseman off all-time), Jeff Blauser, Sid Bream, Fransico Cabera, etc. which are hardly your household names. Omg I almost forgot Otis Nixon. Darnnit who was the catcher? Damon Berryhill? I know there were a couple of others too. Hope it was a good read saintswhoadi ;) [Edited on 10/2/2005 by papz]