Atlanta Braves 2014: I got your extension right here

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I resisted the thread title as long as I could, but Wren and Fredi got theirs today so that's that.

andrelton extended through 2020

and supposedly the braves' press release on it referenced his dwar

7/58

I got a thrill up my leg

6.8 war last year as a below-average hitter

that is super cheap, but he was under team control until 2019 anyway

gotta lock up freddy garcia long term

Atlanta Braves Extensions Courtesy of Coca-Cola Field Built by Home Depot…

Speaking of extensions, Mike Minor had to have wiener surgery.
http://www.talkingchop.com/2014/2/24/5442946/minor-has-a-minor-surgery-and-other-braves-spring-training-news-bits

lol "bits"

Uh-oh, Medlen leaves game holding his elbow.

His last 2 pitches:
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http://atlantabraves.blog.ajc.com/2014/03/10/another-braves-pitching-worry-beachy-exits-with-arm-pain/

Beachy described Monday’s discomfort as a “dull tightness” in the biceps and not the ligament, and said he felt in each of his previous two spring-training starts but that it worsened Monday.

Well, thanks for toughing it out on March 10!

gaaaahhh

I picked a bad season to stop huffing paint

Actually I've enjoyed my offseason chowing down on old films like they were salted peanuts, and plan on continuing that instead of watching 120+ Braves games a year.

@msimonespn
Longest average HR distance last 3 seasons-- Justin Upton 418.9 feet, @Giancarlo818 414.5, Mike Trout 413.3

rip kris medlen

glad they have all that pitching depth

freddy released

Popeye Arms looked good last night. I'd totally given up on him -- it'll be great if he's actually managed to level out his swing for the long term.

ANDRELTON

As a scheduled part of their home opener, the Atlanta Braves set off fireworks before their game against the New York Mets on Tuesday. As an unscheduled part of their home opener, the fireworks set fire to the American flag that flies above the Braves Vision video screen in center field.
"It happened because of new pyrotechnics," Braves spokesperson Beth Marshall said. "For the first time, they put pyrotechnics on Braves Vision. One of the pyrotechnics flew at the flag and lit it on fire." Marshall added that the material of the flag is flame retardant, so it went out on its own.

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http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-atlanta-braves-fire-flag-20140409,0,741573.story#ixzz2yRQXQYj9

Santana: 65 strikes, 23 balls

He was great tonight. I'm glad Walden/Kimbrel had four runs to work with, because they were shitting the bed pretty good when the Mets ran out of outs.

why is bj upton batting second

It is a mystery. Chipper tried to do some swing doctoring on him today -- was very vague in the booth about who reached out to whom, but it was pretty clear that the team called on him in to come in and do what he could with this guy's swing.

braves are really inside the nats' heads

gree hee hee. Braves had the Nats by the wrists today and were doing the old "why are you slapping yourself, huh? huh?" thing.

Andrelton Simmons: 45 PA, zero strikeouts, zero GIDP

Like sands through the hourglass...

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andrelton struck out

Fuck Dan Uggla and his cinder-block hands.

What is it about Atlanta that makes everybody's eyeballs go oblong?

That's what you get for trying to run on GERALD LAIRD, Billy Hamilton.

(Teheran and Simmons probably had more to do with it, but...)

Laird's thrown out 2 of 3 attempts against him; Gattis, 4/14. For a guy who has a weird little hitch in his throw when he's tossing it back to the pitcher, Laird unloads in a hurry on a steal attempt.

Actually I guess Laird's gotten 3 of 4, unless baseball-reference.com updates stats instantaneously.

Braves pitching pretty much shut down the Reds this weekend. They got some depth with Hale, who looks pretty solid. That guy was dealing strikes and getting some real good movement on Saturday.

Yeesh.

"and the magical ride of Aaron Harang comes to a screeching halt"

it's called April

era+ no longer 427 i guess

Braves extend Johnson...Frank Wren handles Johnson's extension... name your headline.

Rosenthal: Source: #Braves agree with Chris Johnson to 3-yr extension plus club option. Buys out final 2 yrs of arb, plus 1 and possibly 2 yrs of FA.

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uggla: benched!

yeah well this is about as high as I expected to get in HM, T-17th. Hopefully he starightens out enough to come back and be mediocre for 100 games.

.186 with a .657 OPS in 265 games dating back to mid-2012

Oh yeah, Fredi, the passive-aggressive thing is really going to work on these guys.

“Sometimes you have meetings and guys expect you to rant and rave and throw stuff,” he said. “I popped in the hitters’ meeting today for a little bit and told the guys, ‘Hey, let’s whoop somebody’s ass today. Let’s go out there and score three, really put it to them!’ It kind of got a giggle.”

tommy la stella is hitting .393 when behind in the count (although that doesn't really explain why he's only .216 when ahead)

Fredi going full LaRussa

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10887297/atlanta-braves-shake-lineup-bat-pitcher-aaron-harang-8th

He did that a couple of times last season, iirc.

Danny Biceps played tonight, that benching is still just an uggla rumor

@ajcbraves
Freeman 6-for-11 with RISP and 2 outs. Rest of team: 8-for-103

No amount of La Stella is going to fix this team.

rosenthal saying uggla is done, though whether dfa'd or outright released remains unclear

plz SOMEONE snap him up so I can at least get another 25 HM points

xp - I've been waiting/hoping for that news today.

http://i.imgur.com/vI0KPD5.jpg

No amount of La Stella is going to fix this team.

― WilliamC, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 10:10 PM (2 months ago)

...although I'd love to be proven wrong. STELLLLLLLLAAAAAAAA!

btw this 20yo ss jose peraza is tearing shit up

no power and he doesn't walk, but it's less of a big deal when you hit .350

also he doesn't strike out

I'm terrible about following prospects -- I've heard a little about Peraza but not a lot. Just read his profile at Talking Chop and they've moved him from SS to 2B, with a timeline to reach the bigs in 2016.

no power and he doesn't walk, but it's less of a big deal when you hit .350 -- he'd fit right in with these weird nu-look small-ball Braves. Homers way down (only 7 in July), slash numbers all up.

Simba Is Not Human, 7/22/14 edition: http://deadspin.com/andrelton-simmons-makes-another-superhuman-defensive-pl-1608860163

Went to the Friday night game -- too bad the Braves didn't show up. I'm done paying to see these guys in person.

https://sports.vice.com/article/baseball-erotica-1-john-smoltz-and-tom-glavine

Pete Van Wieren died of cancer today at 69 -- RIP.

After moving back to MS in 2001 and making a point of going to a couple of Braves games a year, I briefly had the idea of getting the four main broadcasters' (PVW, Simpson, Caray, Sutton) autographs on my glove. The Professor's was the only one I got before I gave that up.

But getting back to this year's Braves:

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BJ Upton is batting eighth today.

The apocalypse is nigh.

sombrero for jupton

also i saw la stella dive for a grounder that was probably five feet away lol

Penance for last night.

The upside is that they're making it really easy for me to shift from watching games to watching movies.

So glad the collapse is happening in the first half of August instead of the second half of September.

so you can put your Falcons stuff on? :)

Gaaahh, no, I gave up American football 3 or 4 seasons ago. The only "protect your goal/put the ball in their goal" sport I mess with is soccer.

i was riffing on an old Larry Jones crack

All the way over my head, stand-up triple. Good work.

http://deadspin.com/naked-idiot-on-turner-field-delays-athletics-braves-gam-1623037704

Funny thing is that this didn't really delay the game at all -- Bob Melvin had come out to pull Sonny Gray when the streaker ran out, and in the last video linked, you can see Otero running in from the bullpen and crossing paths with security and the streaker. Better entertainment than the jumbotron during a pitching change.

Perhaps that's the solution to the longer games controversy, naked men running around.

Attendance would go through the roof!

This game baffles me more every day.

you buried em and they rise from the grave, simple

when i bury the Mets, they stay buried

pirates are even curing bupton

Lorenzo's Chaw

happy 30th birthday to bossman jr.

Hope he gets a (shaving cream) cake (in his face) for his birthday.

Simba with his best of the year: http://braves.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?c_id=atl&gid=2014_08_27_atlmlb_nynmlb_1&lang=en&content_id=35722799&mode=video

Wood vs. Eovaldi was great.

Jose Constanza was used to pinch hit for a healthy Justin Upton

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aw, look who scored

103 quality starts, most in the majors. Hooray! But the run differential finally went negative yesterday.

as karmic payback for Cobb County stadium goes, getting swept by Texas is p sweet.

No argument from me there.

White Flight Stadium naming rights go to Suntrust Bank. I would have guessed Coke or Delta.

Pitchers Strong In Atlanta
The Braves, looking for a boost to their playoff hopes, have yet to solve Nats starter Blake Treinen.

espn copy writers working *hard*

Whew, what a relief that's over.

...wait, they actually have to play these last seven?!

rip frank wren

Burn it all down to the ground except for McDowell & Eddie Perez.

kinda tough to burn it all down when all spring was spent handing out contract extensions

being braves prospect kyle wren just got a little weird tho

Ah yeah, I just meant front office/coaching staff.

so, Hart?

http://www.talkingchop.com/2014/9/23/6836957/braves-have-offered-john-hart-the-gm-job

Frank Wren could invent a cancer vaccine in 20 years and the headline will read "Disease Eradicated By The Guy Who Signed Dan Uggla To A Long-Term Contract."

-Matt Sussman, BP

Congratz to B.J. Upton on his new Braves single season strikeout record (172).

Fredi survives.

Greg Walker out as asst. hitting coach, Doug Dascenzo replaced by Bo Porter as 3B coach.

Hart gives in to the arm-twisting, named Pres. of Baseball Operations. Coppolella's title of "right-hand man" to be changed to GM sooner or later.

Saving these for next season, hope I have a reason to use 'em.

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