As everyone surely knows by now, the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl last night. Good for them, but did anyone else's mind just switch immediately to baseball after that? Once the interception was taken back for a touchdown, I had visions of Jason Heyward standing in the box ready to complete his journey to the major league roster.
Pitchers and catchers will report to Spring Training in 10 days. Just 10. Ten. A one with a zero following it. That's how close we are. When the Braves report to camp, they'll be looking to finish a journey of their own. A journey that started last July when a lot of changes were made to the team's roster configuration and it began to show in the team's performance.
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The 2010 ZiPS Projections have been released. Not much news to report here, just a notification. Click here to see the projections.
The author notes that the Braves are his darkhorse candidate in the National League. He notes that Hanson and Jurrjens could be the new Smoltz/Glavine combo for the Braves, though I would say they that Smoltz/Maddux would be a better comparison. When you look at the players similar players comparison, Smoltz shows up in Hanson's player comps, while Maddux is included in Jurrjens's comps.
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We've tried to do something like this before, but with the new CMS system, we're hoping it will be more successful than it was before (and maybe the person in charge will be more willing to do it than he was before).
When thinking of your confidence in the organization, try not to base it on any particular season, but based on your overall picture of the organization. Things to be included in your thought process are things like the team's current roster construction, farm system, management, etc.
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After several renditions of the projected 2010 Standings by Baseball Prospectus's PECOTA system, the divisional ranks are starting to look about right. When they were first released last Thursday, Baseball Prospectus ran into some problems with some stats being counted double in the projection system, which left for some strange results to say the least. They've been working on it, and I think we're now at something closer to what the final version will be.
Below is the division that we care most about, the National League East.
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Something that I like to do from time to time is to turn back a couple pages in our prospect rankings and seeing how they turned out. I like to go back far enough in the rankings that you have a true picture in how it turned out, but not so far back that the players have wandered off into obscurity. Today, I'm going to look at how Baseball America rated our prospects going into the 2005 season and allow hindsight to take it's course. ...
The Braves know that Jason Heyward will be something special. The only debate is deciding upon when is the right time to let the Heyward era begin in Atlanta? With the 2010 Spring Training approaching the Braves invited Heyward to participate in the 2010 MLB Rookie Career Development Program. This program will give incoming rookies much needed advice and guidance as the prepare to start their Major League careers. ...
Baseball Prospectus has released their top 11 15 prospects in the Braves farm system. Baseball Prospectus breaks the prospects up into different levels -- five-star prospects and on down. This helps compare the system to other teams. For example, the Braves are shown to have three five-star prospects, so their #3 prospect would be rated above some teams #1 prospect in Kevin Goldstein's mind.
The Braves Top 11 can be seen here (after the jump):
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Woo! It's our turn! Heck yeah, Mc! This one got me fired up about this season! I think we're... 
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So these are the projections the BCS computers would pick? lol
Based on three year averages, yet Jason Heyward is projected to play 120?
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Hard not to be excited about the Braves moving forward. So many prospects and young players...
It's our turn
brnt247 on 02-08-2010