The Blue Board

Uggla isn't putting up the numbers he is being paid to it up. His $13 mil per yr is to be an RBI machine. Hard for him to do that when he continually whiffs. Plus you can't really compare Uggla to Dunn. I mean 28 HR and 65 RBI doesn't come close to comparing to 12 HR and 46 RBI. Uggla is one of the worst fielding 2B and again is being paid to put drive in runs, not win a gold glove. He isn't coming close to producing offensively and hasn't since we signed him.

If you look at OWAR among 2B, Uggla is 8th and he isn't paid to be that low.

Let's hope because I picked him up on my fantasy team. The Braves pitching has went downhill drastically and I think we need a better pitching coach. Teheran isn't pitching well, so we have very limited options. If the Braves don't upgrade prior to the deadline, then the season is essentially over.

I compared them bc they are low average guys with good on base. According to Fangraphs Uggla has the 6th best WAR amoung 2B (I'm not counting Zobriest), his D is +1.7(around average, but well below average for career), 3rd out of 2B in HRs, 5th in on base %, 2nd in BB% at 15.7% and runs and 4th in RBIs. They have a value break down also and he has been worth 10.3 million year to date. When you compare him to 2B he is still pretty good well above league average.

That extra $3 mil would come in very handy for a trade or signing a top pitcher. If he isn't putting up his worth, then what good is he? You just proved my point. Uggla isn't a bad option, just for less money. What's happening with Uggla is what happened to the Braves with Lowe. overpaying a guy that isnt close to producing his contract.

He has been worth over 10 million and has two months to play. He will outplay his contract this year. Granted he is set to make 13 mill in 2013-15 and the last year he will be 35. Big long term deals are rarely worth it bc the back end.

dont disagree but if the guy just plays his average the rest of the way its going to really help this team for the remainder of year ; im just glad that McCann is playing soo much better the last month b/c he was batting a horrible 224 for awhile

He hasn't produced his worth since arriving, so how is that going to change?

Him getting on base is important, but not as important when you are hitting 7th in the lineup with Janish and the pitcher coming up afterwards. If he was hitting his career average (.255), he would be 4th or 5th and in that case a BB would be very important.

i hope all of our guys continue to make it back to playing well esp our pitching - its been really poor other than Hudson the other night and our boys first game back after a 2 year vacation

just thankful we are winning the game at this point

need new ownership and soon - hard to compete with teams that are paying players twice what we pay ours ; do agree with the fact that he hasnt consistently played well this year but again if he just hits his average the rest of the year then we should be able to contend for a playoff spot

very true statement but stating the obvious here - we didnt know that we were overpaying for him at the time we signed him to the contract ; i wish we would overpay M Bourne for the next 5 years and settle that issue for awhile

i will be sick if we dont sign this guy - i dont care if you have to give him all of Chippers money next year it would be worth it in the long run