Braves fans

[MetEdDawg]

If we are buyers at the deadline, fire the FO. 6.5 games out is not close, and that's with a record better than it should be considering our -36 RD.

We are a halfway decent team that has gotten a little lucky. Even with Freeman, we're not a real threat, and the FO should be smart enough to understand that.

If we had any pitcher in the world other than Bartolo Colon in his spot, this team has 3-4 more wins at a minimum, which would make us 3 or 4 games above .500. This is not a bad team. It hits for average, it has enough power, and while the pitching staff as a whole isn't great, there are enough middle relief arms to do well enough. Add the fact that Dansby is coming around finally and Freeman is coming back and I think this lineup is pretty decent. Inciarte, Phillips, Markakis, Freeman, Kemp, Adams, Flowers (who very quietly is batting above .300) and Swanson is a pretty good lineup.

You add a starting pitcher and maybe a better closer to this team and we are going to win more than we lose down the stretch. That to me makes us buyers. But we have to traverse this tough stretch of teams through July in order to be at that point. If we get to the end of July and we are 6 or 7 games below .500, we sell. If we are hanging around .500, we buy. Those west coast teams have to beat up on each other. Might make room for us to come up from a weak division with some better pitching and steal a spot.