(As Compared to big market teams.) They went out to get two reliable pitchers in Derek Lowe and Kenshin Kawakami. Lowe has age as an issue. Kawakami has the issue of whether or not he can adapt to the MLB. However, both should prove to be reliable pitchers. Add in Javier Vaszquez, a Jair Jurrjens and a possible Tom Glavine, the Braves have pitchers that can eat up innings and provide protection to their relief pitchers. The Atlanta Braves pitchers if able to sustain their durability can be the trigger for an explosive offense.
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8 March 2008
tarting rotation. Brad Penny should be fine but after that all they have are questions. Derek Lowe needs to have a good year and Jason Schmidt must get healthy and stay healthy this year. The line-up should be fine this year. They are getting older but still have some very productive bats, Nomar, Jeff Kent, Andruw Jones and Juan Pierre. Russell Martin is a stud at catcher and should really take off this season. The bullpen has some great arms and one of the better closer in the game, Saito. My only worry here is the way Joe Torre manages bullpens, he may overuse a lot of these young guys.
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