MLB SEASON PREVIEW: LETTER TO THE BRAVES FANS

by Simon, SimonOnSports

Hey BRAVES Fans,

Hey guys it's your favorite ESPN analysts. Tiny Tim, Starko, Buster, the whole crew. And we're here to tell you guys that the Braves are going to win the division. Why? Because we watched them play and they are super great. So much more super great than the Mets or the Phillies.

So why are they super great? Well they have a super great lineup of super great hitters. First Chipper 'The Hotness' Jones is healthy. Woo healthy Chipper is always better than broken down brittle chipper. Next Big Tex is in a contract year. Yay contract year. Plus he has Boras as an agent so if he blows up this season you just know he's going to get 22 million a year to play for the Yankees. And that would be super great for the Red Sox Yankees rivalry and for ESPN. Next we just can't say enough about Yunel Escobar. He's our main middle infielder man crush of the spring. He's a .300 hitter waiting to happen. They also have Kelly Johnson at the second. He's pretty darn good. And who could forget about the best catcher in the NL B.M.C.C. He's going to have a phenomenal year.

The outfield you may think has question marks, but not us experts. Matt Diaz just needs full time at bats. Mark Kotsay is a better fielder right now than the completely overrated Andruw Jones. And of course Frenchy in rightfield has a laser rocket arm and is going to hit 35 homers this season. Mark it down, we watched him in spring training. He put on muscle.

And if you think the pitching has question marks you are wrong. We watched Mike Hampton in the spring. He's back. He's not going to get injured he's fully healthy. And Tom Glavine is Tome Glavine, good to scratch and claw for 12-15 wins. John Smoltz is healthy, don't you worry about him. And of course Tim Hudson is going to be good. Plus, Bobby Cox just loves their 5th starter Jair Jurrjens who they got in the Renteria trade. They even have Chuck James waiting as the 6th starter, talk about depth.

The Bullpen has question marks but who's doesn't. All you really need to know is that Raf Soriano is going to be a lights out closer this year and the rest the Braves will figure out. Don't you worry.

So at first we all came out thinking we had an original thought when we each individually picked the braves to win the division. But I guess we were wrong. Brilliant baseball minds think a like. The Braves are winning this division, they have the endorsement of baseball tonight.

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