Braves Notes

Blaine Boyer was sent down to Richmond and Joey Devine was called up. Boyer clearly wasn't ready after his injury and Devine was great in Spring Training. There's a good chance Devine will be the closer at the end of the season.

The Braves Report Card

Liked the Estrada trade; Oscar Villareal has a chance to be a contributor, and Estrada was nothing special behind the plate, but the Edgar Renteria swap will hurt. The Braves are paying roughly 60% of the remainder of his deal, which takes him from “outrageously overpriced” to merely “overpriced”. The cult of personality that surrounds Renteria is amazing. His defense was atrocious last year, and I refuse to believe that it’s entirely the Boston media’s fault. Plus, he’s not the hitter conventional wisdom seems to think. People think he merely struggled the last two years, when in fact his career stats are pretty darn close to what he did the last two seasons, and given his supposed age of 30 (I’ve always believed Renteria’s older than that, though I freely admit I have no proof to back that up), it’s not likely that he’s going to suddenly get better. For this, they gave up a top 10 prospect in Andy Marte. They’ve also lost Kyle Farnsworth, Julio Franco and Rafael Furcal, and aside from the shaky Renteria trade, haven’t done much to replace them. Meanwhile, their chief rivals, the Mets, have advanced leaps and bounds.

I give them a D- so far.

Don't think I haven't forgotten about you Kolb!!!

Your a waste of a much needed roster spot. Please, take your millions and leave. I don't even care if you think you can still pitch ... just go.

Dan Kolb Sucks.com

Look how damn smug he is there thinking about how he can bring down the Braves and end their NL East winning streak. I really think he was sent to destroy the team. As you all might remember, I started a Kolb Petition awhile back to build support for ousting Kolb from the Braves. This has not proved successful, but finally an alley has surfaced in the form of a website called DanKolbSucks.com. I support this site's efforts to reveal the menice that is Dan Kolb. Bellow is a post from DanKolbSucks.com. Hopefully we are not the only ones out there and eventually more Braves's fans will come to understand the destructive force of Kolb.
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"So Dan Kolb is 1 - 5 so far on the year … those 5 losses were to Washington (April 12th), Philadelphia (April 17th), Coloradio (May 11th), San Diego (May 17th), and then Washington (June 2nd). With the Braves currently being 30 - 26, make those 5 losses what they should be…and we’re 35 - 21. This would also make the Nationals 29 - 28 instead of 31 - 26. And the Phillies would be 29 - 28 instead of 30 - 27. So with those modified records, the standings would look sorta like this … Atlanta 35 - 21, NY Mets 30 - 27, Was. 29 - 28, Phil. 29 - 28, Florida 28 - 26. Fantastic. And those are just Kolb’s losses, those don’t take into account the rest of our awful bullpen."

Kolb Must Go

Although the baseball gods count Kolb's latest effort to destroy the Braves as a loss, it really was just another example of how bad of a closer this guy has become. Was last year for real? Did he save 30 plus games only to come to Atl. to piss me off? Prob. not on both accounts. I cannot profess in any meaningful way the dislike I have for this guy. He is a cancer to the team and should be let go. However, the Braves organization has seen its way to keep this guy. Well, good job team. Way to go! Let Kolb blow/loose some more games.

I now call again for people to sign the Kolb petition. Click the title.

Trade or Release Dan Kolb Petition

I would like my readers to take time out of their day to sign a petition that I created to get Mr. Kolb off the Atlanta Braves baseball team. To sign the petition click on the title. More to come on this subject.

Dan Kolb

It has been two days since Kolb's blown save, but I am still too angry to talk about my feelings fully. I will just say that how the h-ll can you throw a pitch that looks like its for a home-run derby contest?!! Kolb made Dustin Mohr look like a homerun hitter with 40 hr potential.

Its only his second blown save, but Kolb 1-3 record does give some sign of his pitching problems. The truth of the matter is the numbers don't show just how really bad he is playing.