Show #153: The Braves Bounce Back with 4 Win Week
The week in review. What and who to target in the trade deadline. And Best/Worst signs of the week.
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June 28th, 2011 at 2:11 am
I absolutely love Meds and hope he isn’t traded. 13-1 in his starts last year. Is that good? Plus, he strikes me as a guy who would absolutely kill the Braves for the rest of his career if traded. I don’t really worry about that with Minor and Delgado.
Mark makes a good point about acquistions from within when we get Prado back and if Uggla hits his career numbers. The same goes for Meds and Moylo if they make it back this year. Our team could be scary good if everyone performs the way they should. We’ve been saying that for like 60+ games now…
Beachy’s demeanor: confident. From undrafted out of Indiana-Wesleyan to striking out Ichiro twice in a night. That’s pretty amazing when you think about it.
June 28th, 2011 at 2:17 am
Bourn is actually ahead of Mac on ESPN’s top 100 rankings. Bub, you’re a stat guy. Explain this to me.
June 28th, 2011 at 2:43 am
Nate, no idea about Bourn, though I did notice Fangraphs has him way up there in Wins Above Replacement (one behind McCann, actually…).
But ESPN can also just be way off on stuff. I know everybody says that, but this year, I’m seriously blown away with how terrible some of their baseball analysis has been. I think they have such a grip on the sports media market that they’re not even trying half the time.
June 28th, 2011 at 3:11 am
Agreed. Their CFB analysis is based on what have you done for me lately, and their recruiting stuff is puzzling. I could go on for days with their CFB failures. Soccer coverage is a joke. You have 40 wash-ups to be your analysts for baseball. BBT has become unwatchable. One of my favorite 10 weekday shows. Unwatchable. Bobby V and his dyed hair need to find something else to do. Kruk has lightened up on his Phillies drum beating, but he’s still kruk. Something about Carl Ravick makes me want to punch him in the face, and how long did they stick with the Mets? Why not give that show to Stark, Kurkjian, and Olney and get some younger guys to help. It just doesn’t make sense. They do alright with me on basketball. I don’t follow other sports enough to comment on their coverage. NFL coverage gets a C-. ESPN has let itself go. That’s all I got.
June 28th, 2011 at 3:13 am
*by 10 weekday shows I meant 10′o clock. I think that’s when it used to come on. It’s been a while since I watched it.
June 28th, 2011 at 7:55 am
It’s the simple fact that they employ Stewart Scott and Chris Berman that makes ESPN suck on an epic level.
June 28th, 2011 at 8:21 am
Beachy looks like Andy Pettitte.
June 28th, 2011 at 9:26 am
By the way, Lugo is just what the Braves need………another weak bat.
June 28th, 2011 at 9:35 am
#56, Whoop! But yeah, he’s terrible.
June 28th, 2011 at 9:37 am
If Marlon Byrd is 60 in baseball years, how old is Julio Lugo?
June 28th, 2011 at 10:04 am
#58 – couldn’t agree more. It was my first thought when I read about the signing.
June 28th, 2011 at 10:08 am
Amusing tidbit from MLBTR:
•Hoping for the Yanks to acquire Jair Jurrjens or Derek Lowe? We’re not sure if either is available, but Sherman says “the Yankees’ policy has become pretty much to run away from Atlanta pitching after having successful Braves hurlers blow up on them.”
June 28th, 2011 at 10:44 am
REVENGE
June 28th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Finally heard the show. Great show.
To keep Medlen over Delgado and Teheran would be nuts. Yeah, prospects are iffy, but Teheran and Delgado are about as assured as Freeman, Hanson, and Heyward were. And let’s admit they worked out great. Heyward’s had troubles, but he put up, what, 5 WAR last year? No way I’m keeping a solid #3 starter coming off TJS over a chance to have another cheap Hanson up here.
Order for giving up:
Minor
Medlen
Beachy
Delgado
Teheran
June 28th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Anybody else notice how uncomfortable Chipper looked from the right side yesterday?
I wouldn’t be surprised to see him go on the DL for knee surgery if Martin comes back before the All-Star break.
June 28th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
I know I am drinking it because of last night’s performance, but you throw out Beachy before the other 2?
June 28th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Curt – I’m in the same place as you. I am absolutely drunk on Beachy’s last two games.
June 28th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Great Cast this week guys, always nice to listen to you every week.
June 28th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
#65 – It was an awful night for Chipper last night. Particularly striking out twice, LOOKING! So un-Chipper like. I was attributing it to him being uncomfortable in the DH role, I didn’t really consider injury. Damn. That’s depressing. This lineup needs Chipper badly.
June 28th, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Take out the game where he got hurt, and Beachy’s last 6 starts have been phenomenal. In 37 innings, he’s given up 6 earned runs on 17 hits and 7 walks. 48 Ks, too. Includes 6 shutout innings against Milwaukee.
I’ll take Beachy over any prospect except Teheran.
June 28th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
After consulting Beachy’s game log, I’d probably place him behind only Teheran with the keepers. But I wouldn’t trade Delgado, either. Those last three I’d hold tight unless a long term, cost controlled very good CF was offered, which isn’t going to happen.
June 28th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
“a long term, cost controlled very good CF was offered”
or a unicorn
June 28th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
I hope the rookie pitching against the Braves tonight believes that he has faced them before in another lifetime….
June 28th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
It is great to see Uggla leading the team……………………in at bats and games!! Really shows a lack of quality back up players. Clearly, he has needed some days off to clear the cobwebs out.
June 28th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Uggla makes in 1 day what I make in a year. And I can go 0-for-4 like he can.