Comments on: Braves Check: October 5, 2009 http://jfwiii.net/2009/10/05/braves-check-october-5-2009/ One person's views on sports, music, politics, religion, and technology. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Wright http://jfwiii.net/2009/10/05/braves-check-october-5-2009/#comment-847 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:14:28 +0000 http://www.jfwiii.net/blog/?p=1367#comment-847 It seemed like there were a lot of games like you mentioned, and I guess that’s an unfortunate consequence of playing for an inconsistent offense. It’s just one more reason not to factor wins into something like the Cy Young voting.

I think we’ll get more out of Chipper next year too. He had somewhat unlucky results on balls in play, which tends to fluctuate from year to year. He also hit fewer homers per fly ball, which may be a sign of decline. It’s still reasonable to expect something like .290/20/85 in 135 games, with a good OBP, if he’s not playing through any serious injuries.

]]> By: Luke http://jfwiii.net/2009/10/05/braves-check-october-5-2009/#comment-846 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:17:04 +0000 http://www.jfwiii.net/blog/?p=1367#comment-846 (1) Jurrjens impresses me. I went back and looked, and I think he had 13 starts where he pitched at least 5 innings and gave up 2 ER or fewer, but ended up with a ND or a loss.

Point being, with a little bit of luck, he could have easily ended up with 20 wins this season.

You could probably say something similar for Vazquez, but I didn’t go back and look.

(2) It will be interesting to see what we get from Chipper next year.

He’s certainly not as young as he used to be, and I’m not expecting 35 HR and 120 RBI or anything like that, but it’s a little hard for me to believe that he’s done one season removed from a batting title in ’08 (I noticed that he finished with a BA exactly 100 points lower than last year).

I think he’s somewhat of a question mark going into next year, but surely he’ll give us more than he did this year.

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