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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Say the Braves re-sign Adam LaRoche and do nothing else with the offense. Go into the year with McLouth, Prado, Chipper, McCann, LaRoche, Yunel, Diaz, and Church as their starting 8. Using the Bill James projections and the Baseball Musings lineup analysis tool, I get that the Braves would score 5.301 runs/game (859/season). Of course, [...]
Friday Links and AFL Report
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of Capitol Avenue Club’s opening. I first opened this blog after my last project ended up going south (had nothing to do with me, the site’s owner decided to close shop). I originally opened this site because I wanted to have my own site, one that I owned and [...]
The Dream Off-Season
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Everyone has their dream off-season. After a month or so of speculating and playing around with salaries, I have come up with mine. It’s relatively simple in theory. It involves one trade, and bringing in only 3 players from outside the organization. Let me state that the operative word here is “dream” and this scenario [...]
Friday Links & NFL Picks
Friday, October 9th, 2009With the Braves’ season done, the hot-stove season has begun. Some links and insights for Friday. Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated says the Braves may make a run at Matt Holliday. Personally, I think Matt Holliday is a perfect fit for the Braves. He plays good defense and fixes the biggest systematic weakness of the [...]
A Modest Proposal
Monday, June 29th, 2009Three way trades rarely happen in Major League Baseball. They just don’t. They do in the NBA, but not in MLB. But they’re not prohibited and they’re not completely un-heard of. Take the Mike Hampton trade for example (OK, so bad example to try to convince Braves fans that a 3-way trade is worth doing). [...]
Leaving Few Stones Unturned
Saturday, June 13th, 2009The McLouth trade marked a significant offensive upgrade to the Braves outfield. Replacing Schafer, who was batting .204/.317/.287 with McLouth, who is batting .273/.351/.424 takes away a black hole and replaces it with an above-average hitter at a defensively challenging position. We lost something on defense in the process, but not nearly enough to make [...]