Mid Market Advantages

Will’s home-school high school baseball team has a new assistant coach: Mark Wohlers.

Tracked down the house Smoltz is trying to sell in Milton. Basically across the street from Anna’s friend’s house. The Google satellite view makes it look like you could hike through the woods the Hurt’s house to Smoltz’s property without crossing a road. Might be a fence or a creek, though. Might have to try it some time.

Ceil asked if there was an upcoming bark in the park, so I looked up the Gwinnett, Rome , and Chattanooga websites to see. While on the Lookouts site I checked out the stats, and provided a Puig update since ESPN hadn’t reported the news. Earlier this year Johnny had seen Puig play up in Chattanooga.

It made me think: If the Braves were a big market team they’d have the money to be more heavily involved in the free agent market. Flops like BJ Upton would be more commonplace. Tickets would be harder to get. Traffic and parking would be worse. All around quality of life would be worse. Instead the Braves manage their money and develop young players in the minors. I kinda like things the way they are, even if it means we can’t throw money at every problem that comes along.

Nice to see a win engineered by Schafer, Laird, Janish, Terdo, and E Johnson. Is Fredi playing Terdo and Schafer against lefties and Gattis and BJ against righties? Fredi is giving BJ every opportunity, but hopefully when it comes down to the key games Fredi will play the guys producing the most. BL isn’t even putting the ball in play.  

Simmons’ home run swing yesterday looked just like a Jeter swing. Great catch by him Saturday, in foul ground. C Johnson also made a good catch, feeling his way along the rail. I’m starting to forget what the C stands for.