re young catchers in article mssc qa dtv netcom com mss netcom com mark singer writes in article apr cs cornell edu tedward cs cornell edu edward ted fischer writes i m still catching up from spring break but bear with me in the bigs especially when they haven t even played aaa ball we certainly believe this kid is going to be very good some day but there is really no need to rush him especially since we have a mega million dollar staff that is probably well served by a battery mate who is expereienced in game calling and pitcher handling lopez time will come let s give him some time in aaa javy lopez has proven over ab in the minor leagues that he is ready to play in the majors he is not being rushed players who are clearly too good for aa and play behind stiffs at the major league level are wasting their time and may actually have a court case against major league management for keeping them at aaa no maybe i need to improve my writing skills lopez who is very ordinary defensively is not likely to hit so well at age unless lopez is me defensively i m and born to play second base he belongs in the major leagues training what does he have to do to earn a chance maybe not a full time job but at least a couple starts and a few ab for him to prove his worth gee i don t know abs sounds pretty good to me about as good as your reasoning that the kid should play a back up role rather than start every day at aaa talk about me as a gm valentine isn t saying he should back up he s saying he should be put in a position to win the job in the major leagues which imho he would if given the opportunity val if i m misinterpreting please let me know so far you have come up with two arguments against lopez he is very ordinary defensively he is young and most players suck when they are young the first is irrelevant he s trying to make the majors with his bat and the second involves seriously warped reasoning valentine ok most players are not ready for the bigs at age see current related posting on clayton one of my favorites most players benefit rather than being stagnant or hurt by playing at aaa most catchers need to be solid defensively players to help their clubs in the bigs those are the arguments against lopez for the braves for this year but the players who are ready are the best and the ones most likely to benefit from being in the majors javy lopez is not a middle of the road prospect he s the real thing now again the most important thing a player can do is hit lopez does that miles better than olson or berryhill if his defense is good enough for greenville or richmond it s good enough for atlanta if he really was awful defensively he would no longer be a catcher see sprague ed now the braves have two catchers who have demonstrated solid abilities to call games to work with the pitchers to throw out runners not superstars mind you but solid experienced veterans the braves have a very solid lineup with two big bats in the outfield an excellent platoon at first a solid mvp candidate at third and one of the better hitting shortstops the center field platoon will probably hit however good lopez what they have to offset the differential in experience and defensive ability the kid will improve playing at aaa and he probably won t being a reserve with the big club oh where to start ok first of all solid good i want good players solid is one of those words used to describe nice white guys who really aren t very good at baseball think of it as twg without the caps it s a losing strategy to say we have solid guys we don t need to improve you used it four times in that paragraph btw same for experienced i might add though that greg olson and damon berryhill aren t exactly carter and fisk olson has played three years berryhill five although and were a wash the only difference imho between olson and valle is the supporting cast two big bats hrm i like justice but i find mr gant s trend disturbing call it one and a maybe the braves platoon is ok but neither player has any value outside of the platoon bream vs lh and hunter vs rh are awful i ll leave the thirdbase comment alone pendleton has wasted too much bandwidth already if the cf platoon hits i ll retrace mr likhani s midnight run down forbes and i live in ny and la got that mike and doesn t cox call pitches anyway goodness do you believe the other poster who thinks lopez is being held down because of his future earning potential why on earth do you people thinkthe braves made this decision are they idiots who have built this ballclub jeeeesh nope they re baseball management possible the most short sighted collection of people in the nation do you not believe this goes on mark do you think frank thomas needed those three months in aaa in or cal eldred wasn t really better than ricky bones last year and i m the treasure you re mostly polite make defensible if flawed cases have wit and have in the past admitted being wrong that does qualify you on r s b we ll make an sdcn 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