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re: The ATL Thread: Spring Training Edition
Posted on 3/4/13 at 2:32 pm to lsu31always
Posted on 3/4/13 at 2:32 pm to lsu31always
I really like all the home runs we're gonna hit.
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Posted on 3/4/13 at 2:32 pm to lsu31always
There are going to be extremely frustrating games where we K 15 times but we are going to hit a shite ton of doubles and homers and steal a lot of bases.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 2:33 pm to Robot Santa
Gattis goes first to third on a little bloop 
wait and Jose Constanza can't get into the country? wtf?
wait and Jose Constanza can't get into the country? wtf?
Posted on 3/4/13 at 2:37 pm to beaver
The Terdman continues to hit! Find him and Gattis spots on the roster.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 3:06 pm to RollDatRoll
i don't get it...Terdoslavich always does well in ST but last year he sucked at AAA
Posted on 3/4/13 at 3:08 pm to beaver
Major league teams aren't familiar with him and don't know how to pitch him. Minor league teams see him for an entire season and get a scouting report.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 3:51 pm to Robot Santa
I really really like Chris Johnson, maybe more than Francisco
Posted on 3/4/13 at 4:53 pm to WicKed WayZ
Chris Johnson is much more predictable with his stats... should be steady if he gets full at bats. I like him. The infatuation with Francisco is his raw power potential... he has a little E5 potential in him. I don't mind the platoon but I would like better if one outright won the job. Steadiness vs. upside.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 4:59 pm to papz
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The infatuation with Francisco is his raw power potential... he has a little E5 potential in him. I don't mind the platoon but I would like better if one outright won the job. Steadiness vs. upside.
Johnson is one of the worst defensive 3B in the majors, any E5 potential Francisco has won't really be an issue between the two. As long as Johnson can hit lefties like he did in the minors rather than he has in the majors we'll be much better off with a platoon really.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:01 pm to auyushu
Francisco has actually been pretty solid defensively outside of that godawful series in Houston early last year when he made like 4 errors in 2 games.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:07 pm to Robot Santa
Yeah, he's seemed adequate/average when I've watched him play. Definitely decent enough to get all the starts versus righties.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:22 pm to auyushu
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Yeah, he's seemed adequate/average when I've watched him play. Definitely decent enough to get all the starts versus righties.
Obviously a 1 year sample size doesn't tell you a whole lot, but his defensive metrics last season were mostly above average. I think everyone just kind of overreacted to his early season struggles. Myself included.
Johnson on the other hand has never had anything even approaching an average defensive season at 3B. Mostly because he has no range at all.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:48 pm to Robot Santa
I haven't seen Johnson field much but I just love the way the guy swings the bat, might be the only guy on the team that can have a high average with abunch of singles. Francisco just seems like another power bat, maybe I'm wrong
Posted on 3/4/13 at 8:57 pm to auyushu
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Johnson is one of the worst defensive 3B in the majors, any E5 potential Francisco has won't really be an issue between the two. As long as Johnson can hit lefties like he did in the minors rather than he has in the majors we'll be much better off with a platoon really.
Maybe I should have clarified. When I said Francisco has some E5 potential, I meant he profiles a little similiar to Edwin Encarnacion. He could possibly be a 30+ homerun bat... but that's not something we'd find out unless he wins the job outright. All three are average/below average fielders.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 10:08 pm to papz
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All three are average/below average fielde
Sorry, Francisco doesn't belong in the same sentence with those two as far as fielding goes, at least certainly not yet anyway. Johnson is like -40 DRS at 3B over the past three seasons, he's terrible defensively, not even close to average.
The same for Edwin as well, he averaged about -12 DRS a season when playing 3B full time. There is a reason he's a 1B/DH now.
As RS mentioned, Francisco has actually been slightly above average overall for his career defensively, but it's very small sample size of course.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 10:28 pm to auyushu
Andrelton about to be on MLB Network.
Posted on 3/5/13 at 11:41 am to volfan30
Mauricio Cabrera da future
Posted on 3/5/13 at 1:06 pm to auyushu
I re-read some of Francisco's minor league scouting reports and you're right... though a very small sample size, he's more than average defensively. Now to go along with a Encarnacion type potential bat, why would you rather us be in a platoon? Would it make more sense if Francisco won the job outright so we can fully develop his bat at the bottom of the order?
With that said, there are scouting reports stating is defense is questionable too. He is much heavier than was coming up. So it's not far fetched to lump them all in the same category.
With that said, there are scouting reports stating is defense is questionable too. He is much heavier than was coming up. So it's not far fetched to lump them all in the same category.
This post was edited on 3/5/13 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 3/5/13 at 2:48 pm to papz
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#Braves lineup: Schafer CF, Heyward RF, JUpton LF, Freeman 1B, BUpton DH, Uggla 2B, CJohnson 3B , Pastornicky SS, Pagnozzi C (Maholm P)
Game is on CSS.
If you do not get CSS, you can watch the game on YES (DIRECTV Ch. 631).
Posted on 3/5/13 at 4:23 pm to volfan30
Odds on either a JUp , BJ or Heyward homer? 
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