ATL Thread 6/24: Brewers at 4:10 Edition

Max freid sucks. Drove to biloxi to watch him last night.

Damn that first inning took 40 minutes and it's only 1-1

Quietly sneaking towards .500 which is unreal with this pitching staff and bullpen.

The way the NL is this year we don't have a shot at the playoffs but gotta wonder if we try to keep this team together for next year. Gonna be an interesting trade deadline to see what Coppy has planned for next year.

Even though we are only pushing .500 and won't sniff the playoffs unless the Nats implode, the first half has been hella fun to watch. I'm thoroughly enjoying the offensive production. Tough stretch coming up to end the first half of the season.

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gotta wonder if we try to keep this team together for next year.

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BP will have nowhere to play (should be dealt before the deadline) with Albies now starting to come fast since he came off the DL.

One of the corner OFs will have to be traded or benched to make room for Acuna as well.

I would bet the rotation will be either Julio, Folty, Newcomb, Soroka, Allard or 4 of those guys and a TOR guy we acquire.

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One of the corner OFs will have to be traded or benched to make room for Acuna as well.

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Why? Acuna is all of 19 and shouldn't be seeing Atlanta until after the all star break next year at the earliest. He can just replace Nick when he is ready after starting in AAA.

I'd rather see us keep Nick specifically so we don't pull the same stupidity we did with Swanson and waste a year of control on Acuna for no reason.

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Last I heard from Coppy (on the radio a couple weeks ago) he was asked about Soroka, Allard and Acuna being up this year and he said not to rule it out with any of them.

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That would be pure idiocy, Allard in particular is nowhere close to ready yet. We shouldn't be seeing any of those three until they've pitched a half season in AAA. Given how much of a launching pad our new park is, rushing young pitchers would be a huge mistake.

And all 3 have done well, if not excelled.

I'm not putting much hope into, but if Freddie is even remotely decent at 3b, we will have a huge dilemma on our hands with Adams.

And I really hope to keep Flowers. He just continues to play well.

Really don't know how we're going to move Kemp nor Markakis with those contracts.

And obviously BP has no long term place on this team because of Albies.