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I can't see how Solo has developed under Woodson. But I haven't watched too many games. But in the games that I have watched, Solo hasn't been developed much and hasn't been played much at all. A big I'd like to look at, if still available, is Siler if we're talking about projects. I still think Solomon has a higher ceiling than what he's showing right now, but under Woodson, I can't see him being more than what he is right now.

Does the summer league matter?

I'm a big fan of Joe Johnson, but I also acknowledge that he's overrated. I hear that he was injured last year during the playoffs and late season, but I don't know how much of that is true at all. But I think after the Boston playoff series, his stock skyrocketed and everyone starts overrating him like crazy. Quite frankly, he didn't do s*** for us in the playoffs last year, and he was not as clutch as he was the year before. I'd like to see Joe play with more intensity too.

I'm not a cap expert, but I thought we tried buying out his arbitration years? He's making $3.75 million this year... maybe it's his first arbitration year. But I know we extended his contract before.

I'm so happy we got Zaza back. Now we just have to add a big or two, and resign Marvin, and I'll be happy with this offseason!

Okay, so the month of April is over. After the final game of the month, I found these e-mails in my inbox... The first one came from back-up catcher David Ross. Umm... that's not going to work out. Seeing that Brian McCann is my guy. Message deleted. The second one came from DH Greg Norton. Another message deleted! Anyways, I've been obsessed with this game ever since I got it today. It's 5AM EST as I write this, and hopefully I'll be asleep by six because I have errands to do in the morning! LOL So anyways, Derek Lowe got hurt after throwing 1 inning in the first game against Cincinatti. Is it just me or does he sound like Mike Hampton all over again? He'll be back after a couple of days, the doctors say. I'll be looking over some trade possibilities later this month. I have to improve my bullpen and add another hitter if I want to contend this year. Schafer will be coming back soon, but I'd like to deal Francouer when he gets hot. Anyone have any good trade ideas? Results Last Week 4.24.09 - @ CIN - W 11-8 4.25.09 - @ CIN - L 1-2 4.26.09 - @ CIN - W 10-6 (SLN = St. Louis Cardinals) 4.27.09 - vs. SLN - L 1-6 4.28.09 - vs. SLN - L 1-6 4.29.09 - vs. SLN - L 3-8 The month of April was an okay one. I had to wait out a few storms here and there, mostly because of injuries and inconsistency on both sides of the ball. Here is how my team did in April: Monthly Prospect Watch: April I had originally planned to do most of the popular prospects, but that takes up way too much time. So what I'll do is update you guys on the top prospects and if a particular prospect that doesn't happen to be that popular is doing good, I'll let you guys know. For example, Brooks Conrad! (Gwinnett/AAA) Tommy Hanson (1-1) - 2.75 ERA - 36.0 IP - 32 K (Myrtle Beach/A) Jason Heyward - .257 AVG - 18 H, 1 2B, 5 RBI, 11 R - .381 OBP (Myrtle Beach/A) Freddie Freeman - .317 AVG - 26 H, 6 2B, 1 3B, 4 HR, 21 RBI, 13 R - .411 OBP Okay, it's 5:30AM. I have to sleep. There must be a more efficient way to do this MPW. If there isn't, then I probably won't be able to do it since there are way too many prospects to list. Unless you guys just want to hear about the Top 3 or 5 prospects and how they are doing during the season or how they did the past month.

Okay, the injury bug (no literally, there might actually be a small bug with the injuries, lol. I'm trying to find a patch / sliders to fix it, but until then, I'm still going to keep moving on with this) is still victimizing the whole league. The teams make some questionable trades also. For example, the Phillies traded Matt Stairs to the Blue Jays for reliever Jason Frasor. Hmm... that's the only shady trade I've seen so far. My team has been very inconsistent in hitting (quite realistic) and also my relievers. Soriano has a 12.46 ERA. And surprise, surprise... Francouer is on the "Who's Hot, Who's Not" list, and guess where he is? Yup... he's certainly not on fire as he is hitting just .164 in about three weeks of play. Jordan Schafer is hurt for four weeks with a sprained left ankle. I have replaced him with Gregor Blanco. Results Last (2) Weeks 4.14.09 - vs. FLA - L 1-2 4.15.09 - vs. FLA - L 0-5 4.16.09 - vs. FLA - L 1-2 Jurrjens pitched an absolute game in the first game of this series. Pitching 8.1 innings, allowing only five hits and only two runs, he struck out 15 batters and walked none. Unfortunately for him, the hitting crew left 13 men on base. This series looked like a good one coming in since both the Marlins and the Braves were 5-1 coming in. To be fair, the Braves didn't have Chipper Jones in the lineup due to the injury listed before. 4.17.09 - @ PIT - W 6-2 4.18.09 - @ PIT - L 6-7 4.19.09 - @ PIT - L 1-2 4.20.09 - @ WAS - L 4-5 4.21.09 - @ WAS - L 1-11 4.22.09 - @ WAS - W 9-1 I have two more series to go for the rest of the month. One against the Reds and one against the Cardinals. Chipper Jones just came off the disabled list. He's only had 10 at-bats all season, so I do not expect him to be that good. After these series, I will be posting that monthly prospect watch of all the minor league teams of Atlanta. And a roundup of how my team is doing compared to the rest of the league. So stay tuned!

LOL, I was really referring to just the message of the song... although Lion King was the movie that undoubtedly popularized the motto "Hakuna Matata", the message still rings loud and true regardless of how young the target audience was of that movie.

Okay, so I finished the first series against the Phillies. It ended with us sweeping them! Our pitchers did a decent job, but our hitting did even better. I received an e-mail after the last game of the series that Chipper Jones was injured and would not be able to return because of shoulder tendinitis (c'mon, they shouldn't have made it the game that realistic!) until 1-2 weeks from now. I'm going to put in Infante because he's hit a good bat in the series. I'm also going to bump Brandon Jones up to the majors. The next opponent was the Natinals, and they gave us our first loss of the season. We also lost Derek Lowe for a week. I think the injuries are happening quite too often. I'm going to have to find some more realistic injury sliders or just adjust it myself. Results Last Week 4.5.09 - @ Phillies - W 4-3 4.7.09 - @ Phillies - W 6-3 4.8.09 - @ Phillies - W 8-7 4.10.09 - vs. Nationals - W 9-7 4.11.09 - vs. Nationals - L 1-3 4.12.09 - vs. Nationals - W 10-5 I'm also going to do a monthly prospect watch. So after the month of April, expect to see the reports for Hanson, Heyward, Schafer, etc. So far, even though many don't regard him as a prospect, Brooks Conrad has FOUR homeruns (!!!) in just 16 at-bats and 4 games in Gwinnett (AAA)! That's very impressive.

Is there a rumor that he's going to be shipped off somewhere? I mean, obviously we've been shopping him. I don't know of any team that actually expressed any long-term interest over him though, so I don't think we can trade him so easily. We'll have to package him with Yunel or Vasquez if we want to get any value out of him. The thing with him is that he's so terrible but then you add that to his already terrible contract and that leaves just a nightmare for any general manager and team to have. I think it's just a matter of time before we deal Francouer, but I'm warning you guys... don't expect much value in return for him.

Before the season began, Baseball America released the Top Minor League Systems in the majors and the Top Prospects for each team. Here is the list of the top farm systems in the majors: And here's the list of the Braves' top prospects:

Like drzachery, I'm going to be posting team reports on my fantasy team. Mine is different though because it is of baseball and not college hoops. I will be keeping track of my Atlanta Braves franchise on the game called Out of the Park Baseball 10. You can find the link to the game here if you are interested. So anyways, it's the beginning of the season again. No trades have been made yet. Schafer is still my center fielder and McLouth is still the Pirates' centerfielder. I might make a trade for McLouth though if Schafer, like in real life, proves that he is not ready for the MLB. But I will wait and see how things turn out for the first month or so. I'm excited to try this out. My brother says it's one of the best games he's ever played, and he was only talking about OOTP 9. Supposedly, OOTP 10 is much improved. The Batting Order 1. 2B Kelly Johnson 2. SS Yunel Escobar 3. 3B Chipper Jones 4. C Brian McCann 5. LF Garret Anderson / Matt Diaz 6. 1B Casey Kotchman / RF Jeff Francouer 7. RF Jeff Francouer / 1B Casey Kotchman 8. CF Jordan Schafer 9. P The Pitching Rotation: RHP Derek Lowe RHP Javier Vasquez RHP Jair Jurrjens RHP Kenshin Kawakami RHP Jorge Campillo The Bullpen: Jeff Bennett Buddy Carllyle Blaine Boyer Boone Logan Rafael Soriano (SU) Peter Moylan (SU) Mike Gonzalez (CL) I will update you guys weekly and maybe if I have time, write up some reports.

Yeah, it works for me. But I'm just curious to why that error message comes up. It's not like my sig is too big. And it's not like there's a sig restriction, and even if there was, the forum would just re-size the picture. It's working now, but I was just being curious.

Hey, Dolfan, for some reason I can use this as my sig: Follow me on Twitter [url="http://twitter.com/Libid21"]@Libid21[/url]. [img]http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6596/atl3.png[/img][/code] But NOT this: [code][img=http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6596/atl3.png] The only difference is that I didn't plug my Twitter in the second sig. I get this error when I try to take out that 'Follow me on Twitter' part... "Sorry, that file is too wide or too high - please try again after resizing the image". I have no problem keeping the Twitter plug in there but I'm just curious why the error is there... just posting so that no one else would get this error in the future. Thanks.

Can you take some screenshots and show us, if you have the time? I just bought OOTP X but I'm still interested in this game. How much was it? How often do you have to pay?

How can we trade Chillz for Camby when their contracts don't even match? Or am I missing something here...

This is an old topic. My relievers are Heath Bell and Aardsma.

I've been posting here since about 8th grade, and I'm in HS right now. I think I've only made it obvious a couple times though. :P

Explain the game more in-depth. How realistic are the stats? Do you watch the games as they happen or are they simmed and you just see the box score? Is the $4.50 thing monthly or yearly? This game interests me. Edit: LOL the broken up English is hilarious. "I much want play at N. Florida. I must wait for sign before I say yes play basket in USA." What he doesn't know how to say basketball so he has to say basket? rofl IDK if I should buy this or OOTP X.

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no, it is who ever you follow can direct message you. for example if i followed dolfan on twitter... he would be able to direct message me, but i wouldn't be able to direct message him unless he is following me. so basically you can only direct message (which is like a PM in boards, but has 140 letter restriction) any of your followers. as for posting, anyone can post anything on other peoples' twitters even if they are not following them.

Another brilliant idea by Libid21. lol

Your team's a bit short... no?

I'm so excited to hear that we are going hard after Zaza and Andersen... that would be a sick front court with them! Hopefully Zaza accepts one of our offers and Andersen comes over. As for this thread though, I won't start celebrating until it actually happens.