Olney reports we just released Glavine. He was supposed to get a million dollar bonus if he made the active roster, and up to 3.5 if he stayed 90 days with us.

[Edited on June 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM. Reason : ggg]

6/3/2009 6:14:15 PM

^ yeah i just think we couldnt pay him the money, which sucks, but related news Hansen has been called up and will pitch Saturday

6/3/2009 7:06:52 PM

even more up-to-the-minute news reports they traded 3 minor leaguers to the bucs for mcclouth

[Edited on June 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM. Reason : Jeff Locke, Charlie Morton, and Gorkys Hernandez]

6/3/2009 7:23:33 PM

this peachtree tv is pretty cool. better to watch mid-inning warmups than commercials

6/3/2009 8:14:40 PM

Quote :

"Charlie Morton, and Gorkys Hernandez"

shit

6/3/2009 8:28:05 PM

I like this deal for you guys. This makes your lineup a lot better. It's a HUGE upgrade from Schaefer and he is still pretty young and under control...

6/3/2009 9:33:15 PM

Gorkys is gonna be a stud. He's young, but outside of Heyward he's the one guy in the farm system I was legitimately excited about.

McLouth and his .800 career OPS will be an OK stopgap for a year or two and definitely helps the lineup this year, but I'm not too excited about him.

6/3/2009 9:48:44 PM

color me excited. I like the McLouth move. Morton and Locke are probably mid rotation starters at best. i think hernandez has the most talent of the three, but pitching is always so highly valued. But getting McLouth makes Hernandez expendable anyway. Even more so if Schafer gets his head back on straight.

the Glavine move doesn't really mean much to me either way. I have heard though, that Hanson will be called up to start on Saturday and take over the #5 spot in the rotation, with Medlen moving to the pen.

Also, obviously Blanco was called up yesterday, swapping with Schafer. Today, we called up Brian Barton in addition to the McLouth trade. So that means we have 7 OF:
G Anderson
Barton
Blanco
Diaz
Frenchy
McLouth
Norton

6 OF is odd. 7 is just truly weird. I'm thinking Norton gets cut, and the front office is close to another trade, probably Frenchy.

6/3/2009 9:49:56 PM

Francoeur is still worthless in any trade scenario. We'd never get anything other than young low-level prospects.

6/3/2009 9:54:22 PM

Also, McLouth nearly doubles the OF's HR total (McLouth: 9, Braves OF: 10), and nearly doubles the entire team's SB total (McLouth: 7, Braves: 8)...

6/3/2009 9:58:11 PM

god damn game.


Frenchy is a bitch. Make some god damn contact at at least with the bases loaded.

6/4/2009 3:27:35 AM

Glavine had a pretty damn raw HOUR long interview on 790 The Zone down here in Atlanta today... didnt hold back much and it pretty much confirms that the Braves handled this like shit. You can listen to it on their website (you have to register, but its free).

http://www.790thezone.com/

6/5/2009 11:50:01 AM

Its a similar situation that millions of Americans face where the company opts to keep the younger guy at a fraction of the cost instead of the older veteran

It's just magnified 100 times because its happening with major sports franchise

Bad PR move by the Braves...this could hurt them for the next 30-40 years with team functions where they celebrate the past...they could have Smoltz and Maddux come back and Glavine give them the cold shoulder...If I'm Steve Avery I'd be standing by my phone

6/5/2009 11:54:36 AM

I didn't listen to the interview, but lets not forget that Glavine is the one that went to the Mets. It's one thing to leave your team, but its an entire different story when you go to your division rival.

6/5/2009 12:02:26 PM

yeah i don't feel exactly sorry for glavine. he's a bitch if he thinks this is personal

6/5/2009 12:24:51 PM

the dropping him isnt the problem, its the way it was done. He went through the rehab and everything and the whole time they knew they were going to let him go and on top of that, he was willing to retire to save face for him and the franchise and they wouldnt give him the chance to do that even.

6/5/2009 12:28:08 PM

yeah i guess so, but the braves are typically a classy organization so i have to think they had some inclination that it wouldn't play out like that

6/5/2009 12:37:33 PM

They let him go through the rehab because they wanted to evaluate his stuff before guaranteeing him a spot. That's why they wrote into the contract that his money was contingent on making the roster. That should have been the first sign that Glavine should have recognized that his spot wasn't guaranteed, when his contract said so explicitly.

6/5/2009 1:15:09 PM

listen to the interview, he addresses that

6/5/2009 1:35:10 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4234548

braves to trade for brad penny?

6/5/2009 6:29:00 PM

8 innings of 2 hit ball by gallardo? cot damn our lineup is terrible

6/5/2009 10:02:48 PM

[Edited on June 7, 2009 at 1:33 PM. Reason : holy shit i cant believe this post worked, i only got internal server errors like 12 times]

6/7/2009 1:32:48 PM

Hanson is rolling.

6/7/2009 1:56:31 PM

Chipper v. Brewers

6/7/2009 3:03:02 PM

^lol. Hanson's first time through the lineup was beauty. 2nd/3rd time...................not so much

6/7/2009 3:28:30 PM

Quote :

"RHP John Smoltz told reporters following last weekend's minor league rehab start that he'd prefer not to make his first Red Sox start against the Atlanta Braves. The 42-year-old right-hander still has one more minor league rehab appearance next week and appears to be earmarked for a June 16 return against the Florida Marlins -- a development that he'd prefer before potentially starting against his former team on June 21. "There is so much history and emotion that goes into it, but it's a game and I want to pitch the game (against Atlanta). My only wish is that it wouldn't be my first game," said Smoltz to WEEI.com. "Pitching is pitching and when I get out there it will be pitching. But there will also be too much leading into it and too much after it. It will not be normal... You try and treat it like a normal game, but this one would not be a normal game. No matter how much I would want to sleep at night, there would be anxious moments."

shut up smoltz, you're dead to me. except that i have you on my fantasy team which is why i know that quote.

6/9/2009 8:33:37 PM

nah. I will always be on Smoltz's side when it comes to the Boston / Atlanta debacle.

6/9/2009 9:34:05 PM

didn't he take less money to go there? or did i completely make that up

6/9/2009 9:36:53 PM

boston gave him more guaranteed money, the braves could have given him more with incentives. he's a punk bitch, if you play, you get more money, that's how every contract should be.

[Edited on June 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM. Reason : i think thats right, and hes not really a bitch, i'd just rather him be a brave]

6/9/2009 9:48:17 PM

^im fine with our pitching staff getting somewhat younger. Damn all these old bastards getting hurt and us having to worry about buddy carlyle being our #4 starter again

6/9/2009 9:59:27 PM

I think I'm just more irritated at how public everything's been with Wren.

When Scheurholz was running things, you never really knew about missing out on deals. It's like Wren airs his dirty laundry every chance he gets.

6/9/2009 10:08:06 PM

[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 2:26 PM. Reason : x]

6/10/2009 2:26:22 PM

The Francoeur jersey shirt I bought in 2005 is still the dumbest 24.99 I ever spent.

6/10/2009 2:29:04 PM

Charlie Morton hurt after one inning... or maybe hes got the poops

6/10/2009 7:37:53 PM

In 2008, Francoeur finished 204th out of 213 players (with at least 400 plate appearances) in OPS.

Thus far in 2009, he's 204th out of 220 qualified players in OPS.

At least he's consistent.

Quote :

"The Francoeur jersey shirt I bought in 2005 is still the dumbest 24.99 I ever spent."

If you offer that shirt to the Braves, they might just give you Jeff Francoeur in return. Probably a fair trade...

6/10/2009 9:03:08 PM

LMAO, Greg Norton is batting .098.

Francouer is batting .240.

Greg Norton STILL has a higher OBP than Frenchy

6/10/2009 10:28:52 PM

No fucking offense ever. This team could be really good if they had even an average OF squad in terms of hitting. I wish we would have made more of an effort for Abreu in the offseason. We could use his 400 OBP.

The Francoeur experiment should just end. Let someone else play please. Blanco, McLouth, and Diaz. Hell we called up some guy named Barbaro today to play 1B.




[Edited on June 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM. Reason : wfs]

6/11/2009 9:16:59 PM

still at 29 wins. just over a quarter of the season is over.

6/11/2009 9:21:44 PM

Barbaro the dead racehorse would be a better option in right at this point.

6/11/2009 9:22:48 PM

^^ 59/162 = does not equal a quarter. Braves are looking like another mid 70s to low 80s (at best) win team unless Chipper/McCann get hot.




[Edited on June 11, 2009 at 9:28 PM. Reason : ad]

6/11/2009 9:27:26 PM

It's Ragged. Just let him continue thinking we'll win 120 games.

6/11/2009 9:28:48 PM

lol i didnt think they would win anywhere close to any of those numbers in wins

6/11/2009 9:38:59 PM

nice clutch performance today from lowe

6/14/2009 3:01:31 PM

The good news is Frenchie is 6 for his last 12 with 4 RBI's

[Edited on June 14, 2009 at 3:04 PM. Reason : .]

6/14/2009 3:03:42 PM

let's see if the pitching staff can shut them out today...for an inning

the Braves suck

6/14/2009 3:20:39 PM

well, we won the last 4 innings.

6/14/2009 4:35:48 PM

30-32... must do something soon or this division is going to be out of reach

6/14/2009 5:45:48 PM

I dont know how you can do anything btw now n the trade deadline that will change the outcome of this season. The braves have been in this "funk" for several years now. Its gonna take 3-4-5 things to bring us back to being a winner, including things happening to the Mets, Phils, & Marlins. Aside from that, it hurts me to say, we may be average for awhile.

6/14/2009 7:43:57 PM

i would just rather they stay the course and be shitty for a season or two if it means their prospects can properly develop. i'd hate for them to pull a teixeira and trade away all their best prospects for a half to full season rental

6/14/2009 7:54:30 PM

Quote :

"I'd rather us suck balls in 09, get high draft picks, continue to develop the young players, and focus on a 2-3 year plan than trying to fix everything with a couple of FAs. "

My post from the first page of this thread. Our hitting is so amazingly bad that it is painful to watch. Teams that do not hit HRs need guys with .380+ on base %s, not this shitty .320-.340% type guys scattered through our lineup.









[Edited on June 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM. Reason : f]

6/15/2009 8:11:00 AM