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12:38 PM
Braves sign catcher Wil Nieves to minors deal.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/0...il-nieves.html

Bethancourt Gwinnett bound or better yet, AJ bout to be traded?

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My money is on Bethancourt being sent down. He's not hitting, and worse, he isn't the Yadi Molina defensive freak we were all led to believe he is. Our front office badly miscalculated with him. And worse, they traded away our best fallback option in Gattis. Frankly, he's better than AJ at this point and was a whole hell of a lot cheaper. Nieves is pretty much garbage himself, so I'm not real excited about him. We've totally fooked up our catcher situation and it won't be easy to fix.

ETA: Bethancourt, not Betancourt. Damn autocorrect.

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Catcher is certainly a question mark going forward, but I'm loving the gattis trade right now. Folty looks like he'll be a solid pitcher for us, not sure about Thurman yet, and Ruiz should be a decent player.

If I knew gattis could stay healthy catching, I'd probably feel differently. I just don't think he can or could.

Hopefully Chris odowd can become a serviceable catcher

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Kelly Johnson with an oblique injury. Gotta figure he'll be on dl. It'll be interesting who gets the call up

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I like the moves that hart made for the most part, but...

Stults...
5.40 era

Wandy...
2.70 era

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@KevinMcAlpin
Also at Gwinnett, Manny Banuelos allowed 1 run on 4 hits over 5 IP. He's posted a 2.89 ERA in 7 starts at Triple-A this season.

@GaryRTR
@KevinMcAlpin Banuelos also doubled and scored the only run. On an RBI triple by Peraza.

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Grant McAuley ?@grantmcauley 2m2 minutes ago
#Braves have placed OF/INF Kelly Johnson on the 15-day DL (strained right oblique) and recalled OF Todd Cunningham from @GwinnettBraves.

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Damn. Can we call up Banuelos or Wisler and dump Stults already? That said, I freaking hate the SmallPark. More homers hit there than in Coors the last several years. It's the epitome of a band box.

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Damn. Can we call up Banuelos or Wisler and dump Stults already? That said, I freaking hate the SmallPark. More homers hit there than in Coors the last several years. It's the epitome of a band box.

@DOBrienAJC
#Braves Stults has given up 24 hits, six homers and 14 runs in 18 innings over his past 3 starts. Fredi said he stays in rotation for now

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Fredi has a lineup I like. Not sure how they'll do, but all these guys have a chance to be here next year... Play em

Peterson 4
Gosselin 5
Freeman 3
Markakis 9
Simmons 6
Cunningham 7
Maybin 8
Bethancourt 2
Teheran 1

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Gosselin and Cunningham with 3 hits a piece. I think we've found 2 guys to start for a while. Maybe they can continue to contribute.

Oh yeah and goose got the bat taken out of his hands by fredi. Runner on 3rd with 1 out and fredi called the squeeze. Goose popped it up for double play. Dumb call by fredi. Goose was 3-3

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Gosselin and Cunningham with 3 hits a piece. I think we've found 2 guys to start for a while. Maybe they can continue to contribute.

Oh yeah and goose got the bat taken out of his hands by fredi. Runner on 3rd with 1 out and fredi called the squeeze. Goose popped it up for double play. Dumb call by fredi. Goose was 3-3

It's one game. They're bench players for a reason. That said, we need to send Cody Martin down to Gwinnett. He sucks.

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It's one game. They're bench players for a reason. That said, we need to send Cody Martin down to Gwinnett. He sucks.

So you would rather play callaspo and Gomes? They're bench players too and very old. Let goose and Cunningham play. They might become decent players and if they don't... So what! Play the young guys

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So you would rather play callaspo and Gomes? They're bench players too and very old. Let goose and Cunningham play. They might become decent players and if they don't... So what! Play the young guys

Gomes, yes. He's still capable of being very productive. His skills haven't regressed much. Callaspo sucks, but Goose hasn't shown he's any better or he'd be playing. Jace Peterson should be proof enough of that. So young and sucks or old and sucks, either way whoever plays sucks.

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Gomes, yes. He's still capable of being very productive. His skills haven't regressed much. Callaspo sucks, but Goose hasn't shown he's any better or he'd be playing. Jace Peterson should be proof enough of that. So young and sucks or old and sucks, either way whoever plays sucks.

Gomes...
63 ab's .190 avg .284 obp .649 ops
He plays horrible defense

Cunningham (AAA)...
.286 avg .356 obp .708 6 sb's
His speed in lf will help our pitchers a ton

Goose...
33 ab's .333 avg .371 obp .826 ops

Callaspo isn't the answer and I doubt goose is but let's find out why we aren't going anywhere anyway

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Cunningham with 2 more hits today. Obviously he won't keep this pace up, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

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Cunningham with 2 more hits today. Obviously he won't keep this pace up, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

I think it's about seeing if he is a capable CF backup, thus enabling the release of EYJ. No reason to play a LF with no power.

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I think it's about seeing if he is a capable CF backup, thus enabling the release of EYJ. No reason to play a LF with no power.

I'd be fine with that. Maybin & Cunningham could be a nice platoon.

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I'd be fine with that. Maybin & Cunningham could be a nice platoon.

If we added terdoslavich, I'd be fine with it. Gomes isn't an everyday player. I want a young guy in the mix at every position

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Braves are playing well right now and really have been all year except for the bullpen.

5-0 early lead on Marlins. Cunningham and Gosselin with another hit today (just 2nd inning). Peterson with a huge 2-out, 2-rbi single. I'm loving Peterson