WHo are your All-Stars for 03

Franchise I feel your pain as far as Braves. If they had been like the Cowboys it would be easy to hate them. But I have liked watching them especially Smoltz and Maddux. Bobby Cox on the other hand is vastly over rated IMO

 

Braves are overrated. When bud selig realizes that the NFL is kickin' baseballs ass on viewers and rank of sport, maby baseball will be good again. Share the wealth like football, and it makes it even, the same teams are always in the playoffs, and the same teams always wins, b/c of the money issue. Braves just happened to have a lot of money, so they get lucky. That to me is bullshit, and not even fun to watch. Its like Bobby Cox and Ted Turner are playing their own shitty video game where they can trade for whoever they want and pickup whoever they want to develop the best team ever. If you think about it, all the braves in one way or another in the starting lineup, could make the all star team.

Just fuckin hate the bravHOES, and the yanks

 

andruw, chipper, furcal, giles, lopez.....5 outta the starting 8 from the braves farm system.....pitching staff.....ramirez, smoltz, king, hodges, others i'm sure i'm missing. up until this year, glavine and millwood.

buying talent? yes, but still the best farm team in the bigs in the last decade+. so, you're buying talent doesn't work with me. next idea?

now the yankees fit your point well. jeter and bernie, after that pretty much everything is bought. i, like you, would love to see a salary cap in baseball. i'm wondering whats taken this long and why its not there already

 

bullshit dude, cmon, mont. can't afford the braves salary, that 2 me is buying talent.

on disrespect 2 u btw, the braves just piss me off.

anywho, salary cap+baseball=fun to watch again. baseball sux to watch on tv b/c its so lopsided and boring. bud selig is too stupid too see that the NFL is kickin' MLB's ass.

 

hey man, none taken. i'm just pointing out that more than half these guys on their roster were drafted by the braves. last time i checked, other than the top few picks, theres no big bucks there. don't blame it on the braves if their draft picks turn out to be great ballplayers and deserve the money. you take all the players in the bigs these days, and put them back with the team that drafted them, and the braves would roll over anyone.

 

who was drafted? besides andruw jones

 

here goes

starting lineup

C---javy lopez NDFA (non-drafted free agent), 87'
2B--marcus giles 53rd round, 96'
SS--rafeal furcal NDFA, 96'
3B--vinny castilla SURPRISE, signed from mexican league team 90'
LF--chipper jones 1st pick, 90'
CF--andruw jones NDFA 93'

bench

mark derosa 7th rd, 96'

so, actually 6 of 8 starters, even i didn't know castilla was originally a brave, picked up by the rockies in the expansion draft

pitchers

horacio ramirez 5th rd, 97'
jung bong NDFA, 97'
trey hodges 17th rd, 00'

not sure how i forgot smoltzie pitched for 2 mins in detroit, sorry.

i'll throw in a bonus here.....adam wainwright 1st rd, 00'. seen this kid throw twice at myrtle beach last year, he is the real deal and will be in the rotation in the next 2 years.

 

char,
Castilla got some time with the braves (not much) in the early 90's before the expansion draft.

i think of smoltz as more home grown than not. he was quite young when they picked him up and did most of the work developing him.

 

Plus just look at all the talent the braves farm system has let go to other teams...I really don't have time to look them all up, but there are a ton of guys that came up with Atlanta who are now contributing to other teams.

 

The Dodgers are known for their farm teams contributing, they didn't get the nickname, farm team for MLB for nothing.