ATL Sports: Braves now have both Upton brothers

[AUTiger7222]

Just wanted to make a post about all the Justin Upton news.

[SportsCenter All Night] Dan Uggla Talks About Upton Trade

[Baseball Today] Eric Karabell And Keith Law Breakdown The Justin Upton Trade

[MLB] Justin Upton Talks About Joining The Braves

[MLB] Justin Upton Trade A Boom For Braves

[MLB] Mark Bowman Breaksdown The Braves Outfield

[MLB] Kevin Towers And Kirk Gibson Discuss Justin Upton Trade

[MLB]Frank Wren Discusses Justin Upton Trade

[MLB] Eric Byrnes Gives His Take On The Justin Upton Trade

[MLB] Sean Casey Gives His Take On The Justin Upton Trade

[MLB] MLB Network Hot Stove Discusses Justin Upton Trade

[MLB] Hot Stove Discusses Diamondbacks Return For Justin Upton

[NESN] Braves Still Not Better Than Nationals After Upton Trade

[New York Times] Sharing A Surname, A Team And An Outfield

[SI] Braves Are Co-Favorites In National League

[ESPN] Upton Brothers Together Join Exclusive Club

[ESPN Insider]Diamondbacks Didn't Get Enough For Upton

[ESPN Sweet Spot Blog] How Many Wins For Braves In 2013?

[FanGraphs] Braves Acquire Justin Upton

[Capitol Avenue Club] Mark Smith Breaksdown Braves Payroll Going Forward

[Capitol Avenue Club] Franklin Rabon, Ben Duronio, Andrew Sisson and Mark Smith Discussing Justin Upton Trade

[Capitol Avenue Club] Ethan Purser Breaksdown Diamondbacks Return For Upton

[Capitol Avenue Club] Andrew Sisson Explains Why You Shouldn't Worry About Too Many Strikeouts In Braves Lineup

[Fox Sports South] Braves Acquire Justin Upton

[AJC]Braves Say Hello To Another Upton But Trade Sure Thing

[AJC]Downloading Uptons Gives Braves A Vast Upside

[FOX Sports] Ken Rosenthal's Take On Justin Upton Trade

[USAF HART]

Coming to Turner Field this season

[AUTiger7222]

(01-27-2013 08:12 PM)USAF HART Wrote:  

Coming to Turner Field this season

As Skip Caray once said "We can dance in the streets!"

[AUTiger7222]

Only 1 team has ever had 3 outfielders with 20 homeruns and 15 stolen bases in a season. The 2000 Blue Jays with Shannon Stewart, Jose Cruz Jr. and Raul Mondesi. The Braves have 3 guys that could go 20/20 this season. And 4 guys that could end up with 20 stolen bases. Pretty awesome.

[Beef]

Our 2-8 batters are all capable of hitting 20+ homeruns. Even the platoon at third base.

That's never happened before and we have a very solid shot at it. I'll take 7 guys with 250 BA's, 20-25 homeruns, 350 OBP's, and 65-85 RBI's all day long and twice on Sunday.

Uggla won't see shit for pitches batting 8th and he still will probably hit 20 homeruns. The Francisco & Johnson platoon would have put up 24 homers last year. And we know McCann, BJ Upton, Freeman, and Heyward are all good for 20-25. Justin can certainly do it too. That kid looks damn good and isn't even close to being in his prime. Each one of these guys can put up 60+ RBI's as well. Several should get close to 100 even.

If our pitching staff can stay healthy and keep around a 3.0 ERA team average (last year we had 3.42 team average), this is going to be a crazy awesome year.

[Jimusmc]

wish I could afford the MLB season ticket thing being in PA i only get to see the ESPN games.

[Anomaly]

(01-28-2013 03:10 AM)Jimusmc Wrote:  wish I could afford the MLB season ticket thing being in PA i only get to see the ESPN games.

You could buy it just for the last month of the season. They normally have some deal by then where it's only 15 or 20 bucks.

[USAF HART]

Or you could watch it on a stream site for free lol.

I think Uggs will be batting 7th with the platoon at 3rd hitting in the 8 hole.

1. Simmons, SS
2. BJ Upton, CF
3. Justin Upton, LF
4. Heyward, RF
5. Freeman, 1B
6. McCann, C
7. Uggla, 2B
8. Road Runner/Johnson 3B
9. Pitcher

[keithbrooking56]

I'm glad we have both Upton brothers. Our outfield loses some steals but makes up for it in power. I hope we can keep McCann past this year, he's my favorite non Chipper Brave once Smoltzie retired.

[Beef]

(01-28-2013 11:54 AM)USAF HART Wrote:  Or you could watch it on a stream site for free lol.

I think Uggs will be batting 7th with the platoon at 3rd hitting in the 8 hole.

1. Simmons, SS
2. BJ Upton, CF
3. Justin Upton, LF
4. Heyward, RF
5. Freeman, 1B
6. McCann, C
7. Uggla, 2B
8. Road Runner/Johnson 3B
9. Pitcher

Doing your lineup would mean we lose the righty-lefty-righty-lefty situation and I don't see that happening. I heard Wren on 790 yesterday specifically say we can finally do a R-L-R-L throughout the lineup all the way to 8th batter and that this was a big deal for them.