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Way to completely disrespect one of best players in Braves history for giving his opinion. Any doubts that McCann championed this?

 

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2013-10-08/chipper-jones-first-pitch-boycott-braves-dodgers-nlds

 

The Atlanta Braves found Chipper Jones' lack of faith disturbing.

 

When the Braves legend threw out the first pitch in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, the team's mascot was on the receiving end.

 

Now know why.

 

The New York Post reports that current member of the Braves were miffed that Jones picked the Los Angeles Dodgers to beat them in four games. The Brave legend made comments on the team’s flagship station, 680 The Fan.

 

As a result, nobody volunteered to be Jones' catcher.

 

Jones, a likely first-ballot Hall of Famer, played for the Braves from 1993 until 2012. The 1999 NL MVP, he accumulated more than 2,700 hits and 400 home runs.

 

 

The kicker to the story: The Dodgers won the NLDS Monday night. In four games.

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On one hand, kudos to him for being honest. On the other, how does he not play it up to the listeners and fans and say the Braves will win?

 

Perhaps he's positioning himself to be an analyst somewhere.

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During a radio interview Tuesday, the same day that Diamondbacks pitching coach Charles Nagy was fired, Towers ripped into the perceived lack of emotion from some of Arizona's pitchers.

 

Towers told Arizona Sports 620 in Phoenix that he expects Diamondbacks pitchers to protect their teammates, especially when other teams throw at Arizona's hitters. Towers vowed that if any pitcher doesn't comply with that edict, he will look to move that pitcher off the team.

 

"Some of them, contractually, it's tough to move," Towers told the radio station. "But I think come spring training, it will be duly noted that it's going to be an eye for an eye and we're going to protect one another.

 

"If not, if you have options, there's ways to get you out of here and if you don't follow suit or you don't feel comfortable doing it, you probably don't belong in a Diamondbacks uniform."

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9797349/kevin-towers-arizona-diamondbacks-general-manager-says-pitchers-need-adopt-eye-eye-mentality

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Pitcher signed past this season for Arizona are Heath Bell, JJ Putz (7M for a setup man with an 86M payroll!!), Trevor Cahill and Brandon McCarthy.

 

I can't imagine he'd be dumb enough to complain that his closer wasn't hitting guys on purpose, and Putz kept going on the DL, so he'd probably bitch about him being a [expletive] instead.

 

McCarthy has 1Y/10.25M left

Cahill has 2Y/20.4M left (with a couple club options after)

 

I'd be all over McCarthy, who judging by his personality on Twitter is probably reviled by Towers, and had numbers worse than his peripherals, so Towers may underrate him.

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Pitcher signed past this season for Arizona are Heath Bell, JJ Putz (7M for a setup man with an 86M payroll!!), Trevor Cahill and Brandon McCarthy.

 

I can't imagine he'd be dumb enough to complain that his closer wasn't hitting guys on purpose, and Putz kept going on the DL, so he'd probably bitch about him being a [expletive] instead.

 

McCarthy has 1Y/10.25M left

Cahill has 2Y/20.4M left (with a couple club options after)

 

I'd be all over McCarthy, who judging by his personality on Twitter is probably reviled by Towers, and had numbers worse than his peripherals, so Towers may underrate him.

Yeah, really have no interest in Cahill. But agree on McCarthy, but McCarthy (especially if it's a dump and they eat some salary and/or take a mediocre prospect) I definitely would want.

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i hope mccann ups the ante and blocks a freight train with his face

 

I swear Michael Shur wrote this and Leslie Knope said it.

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I wanted McCarthy badly when he was a FA. I'd still take him now. Once he overcame his limitations from his injury he was a solid guy. He's be good going forward.

 

Plus he's hilarious.

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I love McCarthy on Twitter as much as the next guy, but unless he's coming for zero dollars and/or absolutely no player assets of consequence, I don't see a lot of point. This year's 135 IP was his second highest IP total in MLB, he's 31 and a FA after next year, and I don't see him being much more than a guy like Feldman was if he bounces back. That's valuable, to be sure, but on a roster that already has Shark/Jackson/Wood/Arrieta/Villanueva and a few more, I'm not sure he's much of a fit.

 

Self-counterpoint: If the moves of the offseason deplete the rotation to the point that Villanueva and/or someone like Baker/Hendricks are guaranteed a spot, then he might be worth dealing for if other needs have been addressed. I actually came up with a scenario that had that come up(Shark dealt, no Tanaka, Arrieta included in CarGo deal), so it's not impossible, but McCarthy's more of a "good option in case X, Y, and Z happen" rather than "McCarthy's available? Sign me up."

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WTF is that? Aaron Miles fastball?

Yeah, there's so much wrong with it. Starting off... A blog based around your love for Aaron [expletive] Miles?

 

Then, I love how the writer busts out stats like, "Yeah, you're avg in the first round was .333 to our .209, but our ERA was slightly better. Plus, it's the playoffs and that's when the team in red plays best, so we're going to win. And with grit." or something like that.

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WTF is that? Aaron Miles fastball?

Yeah, there's so much wrong with it. Starting off... A blog based around your love for Aaron [expletive] Miles?

 

Then, I love how the writer busts out stats like, "Yeah, you're avg in the first round was .333 to our .209, but our ERA was slightly better. Plus, it's the playoffs and that's when the team in red plays best, so we're going to win. And with grit." or something like that.

I like how she was worried about the Dodgers batting average, but took comfort because the Braves ERA was so bad.

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WTF is that? Aaron Miles fastball?

Yeah, there's so much wrong with it. Starting off... A blog based around your love for Aaron [expletive] Miles?

 

Then, I love how the writer busts out stats like, "Yeah, you're avg in the first round was .333 to our .209, but our ERA was slightly better. Plus, it's the playoffs and that's when the team in red plays best, so we're going to win. And with grit." or something like that.

I like how she was worried about the Dodgers batting average, but took comfort because the Braves ERA was so bad.

Correlation does not imply causation? lol

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