2009 Atlanta Braves

[BravesBoy]

Re: 2009 Atlanta Braves

That boy Tommy Hanson is going to be good...He's throwing gas right here.

I loved it when he hit Tejada in the back(95 mph) after Oswalt hit escobar the inning before...shows he's sticken up for his fellow team mates...

[AUTiger1]

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I would kill to have Hanson, Heyward and Schafer on the team this year.

[Kohlstar20]

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I would kill to have Hanson, Heyward and Schafer on the team this year.

I wouldn't be suprised to see both Hanson and Schafer in Atlanta at some point this year. However I don't think we will see Heyward as he is only 2 years removed from being drafted right out of high school.

[Speedy]

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I wouldn't be suprised to see both Hanson and Schafer in Atlanta at some point this year. However I don't think we will see Heyward as he is only 2 years removed from being drafted right out of high school.

Schafer got busted for the "cloud" and had a 50-game suspension last year; he may be naturally gifted but I honestly don't have a lot of respect for him. As for Hanson, I haven't seen him pitch yet (didn't get to the spring game) but I don't want him to be rushed...It's been a while since Atlanta's actually had a top prospect be a starting pitcher that has some serious talent

[Greenevol]

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I think they signed Glavine expressly to take some pressure off Hanson.

They can roll with Lowe, Vazquez, Kawakami, Jurrjens, and Glavine, and have Hanson 45 minutes down the road at Gwinnett for a spot start, instead of dumping the 5th starter position on him.

I like Shafer's upside, but I think Anderson brings more to the table right now (not to mention, he's out of options).

While we're talking Braves prospects, Freddie Freakin' Freeman looks like a 10 year stud first baseman.

[Heisman316]

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I think they signed Glavine expressly to take some pressure off Hanson.

They can roll with Lowe, Vazquez, Kawakami, Jurrjens, and Glavine, and have Hanson 45 minutes down the road at Gwinnett for a spot start, instead of dumping the 5th starter position on him.

I like Shafer's upside, but I think Anderson brings more to the table right now (not to mention, he's out of options).

While we're talking Braves prospects, Freddie Freakin' Freeman looks like a 10 year stud first baseman.

Freeman is definately playing like a professional instead of a 19 year old prospect. He may be up sooner than expected if Kotchman dosen't improve.

[AUTiger1]

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Schafer got busted for the "cloud" and had a 50-game suspension last year; he may be naturally gifted but I honestly don't have a lot of respect for him. As for Hanson, I haven't seen him pitch yet (didn't get to the spring game) but I don't want him to be rushed...It's been a while since Atlanta's actually had a top prospect be a starting pitcher that has some serious talent

Even though Schafer never failed a test for HGH because baseball doesn't have a test for HGH. He got suspended because someone said he was taking HGH. But MLB never found proof of that to be true. They just suspended him because they could.

[Speedy]

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I'm honestly thinking that no matter how good Hanson is he'll start in AAA until at least mid-may.

[Sportsforever]

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And in not so unexpected news, Chipper is out with a strained oblique suffered on a swing in yesterday's WBC game. Chipper is sadly becoming as fragile as Mike Hampton.

[bravosfan]

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Eh, I think that's a bit harsh. It's March, guys pull and strain stuff frequently this time of year. Doesn't sound too serious. And yeah, he'll have his nagging things pop up periodically during the year, but for the other 130 or so games, he's money.

[Brandon13]

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It sounds like Chipper's fine. He says he'll play in the second round of the WBC so it can't be that bad.

[Speedy]

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It sounds like Chipper's fine. He says he'll play in the second round of the WBC so it can't be that bad.

The more games he plays in the WBC - the less games he plays in the regular season. Chipper knows his body can't hold up from March-October...It's a sad realization but he probably won't even play 110 games this year.

[Kohlstar20]

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The more games he plays in the WBC - the less games he plays in the regular season. Chipper knows his body can't hold up from March-October...It's a sad realization but he probably won't even play 110 games this year.

I guess I'll go out on a limb and predict the usual 120 games from him. I don't think it will be less than that and we all know it definitely won't be 150 like he always says he's aiming for every season.

[Speedy]

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I knew he shouldn't have gone to the WBC...

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/worldc...ory?id=3982943

Chipper Jones left the United States team at the World Baseball Classic and headed to Orlando to be examined after he aggravated an injury to his side.
"It's a strain of the oblique," Jones said. "It's something you have to get off of for four or five days and go from there. This is something you don't want lingering. If you take care of it now, I certainly don't see there being any problems going forward.
"It's something that's really bugging me and progressively getting worse. ... I felt it coming on in Canada. This was pain. This was cutting-off-my-swing pain."

[Kohlstar20]

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The Kawakami signing is looking great right now. How this guy has a fatigued shoulder already is beyond me.

http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090319&content_id=4029286&vkey=news_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl