Baseball 2010

[El Kabong]

Atlanta Braves - Braves Baseball Clubhouse - ESPN



Most exciting year to be a Braves fan in a while. The only thing I'm slightly worried about is the hype is out of control but dude looks like as close to a sure thing as there can be. Its not just that he's big and strong, can hit it a mile, can run and throw, he's got amazing plate discipline, he's had I believe at least one walk every spring training game, he just doesn't swing at bad pitches.

Lineup I would go with

1)Nate McClouth CF-not really a leadoff guy but meh, we don't really have one
2)Jason Heyward RF-maybe too far up in the lineup considering he can drive in runs but he just gets on base so much
3)Chipper Jones 3B
4)Troy Glaus 1B
5)Brian McCann C
6)Yunel Escobar SS
7)Martin Prado 2B
Matt Diaz/Melky Cabrera LF

Staff
Tommy Hanson
Jair Jurrgens
Tim Hudson
Kenshin Kawakami
Derek Lowe

Peter Moylan, Kris Medlen, Eric O'Flaherty, Jesse Chavez, Matt Dunn, Takashi Saito, Billy Wagner

I'm thinking playoffs. I know no one cares.

Hate to disagree with you but if I was the Braves this is what I'd roll out

1. McLouth
2. Escobar
3. McCann
4. Chipper
5. Heyward
6. Glaus
7. LF
8. Prado
9. P

That puts more average/OBP/speed at 1-2 and protects Heyward by placing him between some big PROVEN bats Chipper and Glaus.


My BoSox are going to put this on the field

1. Ellsbury
2. Pedroia
3. Drew
4. Martinez
5. Youkilis
6. Ortiz
7. Beltre
8. Cameron
9. Scutaro

SP
1. Beckett
2. Lester
3. Lackey
4. Matsuzaka
5. Wakefield
6/Spot Starter: Buchholz