The Blue Board

Disagree with Minor sucking. He's a young guy that had a rough first half, but he had an unbelievable 2nd half. He's going to have a really good year.

Disagree with Teheran. He's 21. For the love of god give him some time.

Agree on bullpen. It's fantastic. We'll bring some serious sh*t late in games.

My worry with the offense is the lack of a leadoff hitter.

Really looking forward to seeing how the Upton experiment works out.

They will not under any circumstances trade Simmons. Francisco and Johnson will have a more productive year at 3b than chipper has the last few years. Uggla isnt going anywhere. Minor wins 15 games this year.

There's two ways to look at it. The first way is he'll stay the moody, underachieving CFer he was in Tampa. The second way is that he'll benefit from a change of scenery (getting away from Madden, changing leagues, and playing with his brother) and he'll play better than he has.

There was an ESPN article a while back that I think hit the nail on the head. The Upton experiment has boom or bust potential. However, it's a move that must be made; adding the Upton brothers to Heyward just makes the Braves team too good on paper.

Pitching will probably be better than last year, still feel like our line up lacks the power necessary when they get to the playoffs.

Will be near the bottom of the NL in clutch hitting. A lot of strikeouts. It will be their demise.

Uggla is NOT better than Freeman... Freeman had 4 more Homeruns last year, average was .039 higher, 16 more RBI's and scored 5 more runs all of this while Dan Uggla struck out almost 40 more times than Freeman

He's referring to positional value.

to be fair, I wasn't really keeping up with Atlanta when he was in the prime of the year

As someone who considers themselves a Braves fan I will make the prediction that they will lose a play in game, again. Or they will lose in the divionsal 3-1 or 3-0. Team will be just good enough to give you false hope all year only to be bounced from the playoffs quickly. This will be my prediction for the next couple of decades.

Simmons is thought ti be the best defensive ss in baseball. He also had a great rookie year at the plate. The braves have one of the best of in baseball on paper. All three.guys could potentially go 30/30. Dan uggla needs to play better at the plate. Since arriving in Atlanta his offensive #s have dropped acrossed the board. I really like Chris Johnson and like a poster above said i believe the plutonium of him and juan Francisco will be more productive than chipper was the last few years. Freddie freeman is solid defensely and has some pop. I think he will be great by the time he is done. He is only 22 i think. Brian mccan is coming off shoulder surgery so we will see what the braves will get out of him in a contract year. I believe this will be his last year in Atlanta. The starting rotation should have slot of wins with the potential of the offense. If they can manage to go seven innings a night on average watch out because the braves just might have to best bullpen in baseball. I think the braves can win over 100 games this season but we will see the braves tend to disappoint fans with late season slumps. I hope we win the world series. Go braves

I love BMac, but unless he turns things around, I think his time in the sun may be over, quality speaking. I realize he plays catcher and that baseball isn't the most athletic sport on the planet, but he's gotten way too out of shape in my opinion. I had the same one about Hanson and Andruw Jones all those years ago. If I'm making millions of dollars because of my athletic ability you'd damn well better believe I'd be in fantastic shape. I don't know what happened to Brian, but I don't see that level of care being taken with his physique. And I think it's really hurting him.

Mike Minor 7-4, 2.21 ERA over his final 15 starts