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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, [...]
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 [...]
The 5 Best Decisions the Braves Made in 2009
Monday, October 19th, 2009For the antithesis of my last post, the 5 best decisions the Braves made in 2009*. Number 5 – Releasing Tom Glavine in favor of Tommy Hanson. I’m a huge Tom Glavine fan for so many reasons. He was drafted and developed by the Braves, he was a mainstay in the rotation for so many [...]
More on Quentin-McLouth
Saturday, October 10th, 2009First of all, let me start by saying I have no agenda here. In no way am I “lobbing” for the Braves to trade Nate McLouth for Carlos Quentin. I’m sure there are twenty better ways to acquire a right-handed power hitter and I bet Frank Wren is already diligently exploring nineteen of them. I [...]
Braves 2009 Season In Review
Thursday, October 8th, 2009This is going to be a very lengthy post. It will involve a lot of statistical analysis and will attempt to determine what the Braves did well, what they did badly, what they need to change, and generally how they got to where they are. While the purpose of this post is to examine the [...]
Elimination Post
Friday, October 2nd, 2009By the time the Braves played yesterday the game was meaningless. The Rockies completed a 3-game sweep of the Brewers and clinched the NL Wild Card. So, the Braves won’t be playing October baseball this year. Well, not meaningful October baseball, as the regular season schedule extends into October this year on account of the [...]
A Rather Defensive Daily Post
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Thought of the Day The Braves are 23rd in Defensive Efficiency and 24th in Park Adjusted Defensive Efficiency. That sucks. Think about how awesome our pitchers would look if the Braves had an above-average defense. Getting better in that department, in my opinion, is the number 1 priority for the off-season. Let’s take a look [...]