10 Reasons To Throw In The Towel

Written by Colin on July 10, 2008 – 8:28 am

Yesterday we looked at 10 Reasons To Pull Out The Stops and go for broke in a quest to make the playoffs.  Today is time to look at the opposite side of the coin - with nearly an even split in our “Should we trade Mark Teixeira” poll, it’s clear fan opinion is split. Without further ado - 10 Reasons To Throw In The Towel.

  1. A Mark Teixeira trade would bring in young talent to build into the next few years.
  2. The entire outfield has been a bit of an offensive disappointment with Kotsay being the hot spot.
  3. The Phillies are rumored to be looking for ace-quality pitching talent.
  4. We’ve had 9 different starting pitchers, and Charlie Morton has as many starts as John Smoltz.
  5. The Braves going on a winning streak seems synonymous with Mike Hampton and his trip back to starting big league games.
  6. There is practically no winning record on the road.
  7. We’ve been starting Greg Norton in left field.
  8. John Smoltz will be back next year if he has anything to say about it.
  9. We’re too bogged down with big contracts on the DL ($37M) to make any legitimate moves for talent that would put us in serious contention (Hampton - 15M, Smoltz - 14M, Glavine - 8M).
  10. All of our starting position players except Mark Teixeira and Brian McCann have missed time due to injuries.  To boot, three of our starting pitchers are on the DL and at least two of those are done for the year.

There ya go - 10 Reasons To Throw In The Towel.  Should we be done with the year?  Speak up - I know 43% of you (at time of writing) think we should trade Tex.

Please jump in and comment and critique my thoughts - I’m sure I left some out and made up others in a poor attempt to be witty.  Speak up especially if you want to throw in the towel this season.


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Norton To Braves

Written by Jonathan on May 5, 2008 – 3:25 pm

The Braves have announced that utility player Greg Norton has been acquired from the Mariners for a to-be-named player.  We expect the rest of that announcement later this afternoon.  Norton is expected to fill the role that Scott Spezio was originally acquired for as a veteran utility man on the bench.  He has batted .253 over a 12-season career and .235 in pinch hitting situations.  As soon as we have the rest of the details of the trade, we’ll bring those to you.


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