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Let’s just start with selling the manager. If we got a new hardass type manager that actually made his players work out, it would do wonders for our team! It’s well known around baseball the Braves are lax in workouts, and evident seeing our guys in uniform compared to the rest of the league. Michael Harris’ off season training buddy, A’s center fielder Lawrence Butler, called Mike fat, not really as a joke, and questioned the Braves off season workout program publicly. Not that anyone really needed confirmation of this.

It’s the soft body mentality of our organization that must change. Otherwise, we just bring in more great players and turn them into unproductive slobs until they get hurt.

Yes, that’s how I really feel. lol 😆

Great questions. Not sure who'd be available. AA would have to work some magic. Despite injuries, starting pitching looks solid (to me) and will likely even improve as the younglings gain more experience. Bullpen? Yikes. That looks like a hot mess. This is where AA might prove most helpful. We could use a left fielder (plus some real improvement in CF). There is likely someone out there who could help. With the trade deadline coming up, I think we'll see something. We need a SS who can hit.

The only "sellable" product I would be comfortable trading would be Ozuna, and even though he's middling right now he's been fairly reliable. I'd hold onto Eli White. I guess that's why AA gets paid the big bucks.

Honest question here for my fellow Braves fans. We currently sit at 10 games under 500 (27-37). 14 games out of first place, 4th place in the East and only 2.5 games out of last place. We are roughly 40% of the way though the season. I see no signs of life from this team that gives me any real confidence that we will get things turned around and make a post season run….. maybe I'm misreading it, but I don't think so. All that said, are we buyers or sellers at the trade deadline? If we sell, who's out the door? If we buy, who could we bring in that would make a real difference?