Francouer back to Atlanta.
- Thread starter Porkchop.sixpack
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they would've just waited until the break to bring him back. That would've been a nice layoff to get his mind right.
I really couldn't believe he thought he should just be entitled to work it out while with the big club. The Braves are on the verge of being eliminated from the playoff race and he wants to jack around going 0-4 every night.
I really couldn't believe he thought he should just be entitled to work it out while with the big club. The Braves are on the verge of being eliminated from the playoff race and he wants to jack around going 0-4 every night.
since I've heard of a team sending down a player like that to AA to" work things out." Most of the time, you just sit the guy for a game or two and then he's fine.
There's more to this than just a breaking out of a slump- for Pete's sake they sent him to the place where he hit the worst in his minor league career.
I'm thinking that he's probably been acting like an ******* or indifferent to his struggles. I would get cocky to if they made a lifetime achievement special on SportsSouth after two full seasons in the Big Leagues.
The show is worth watching for the unintentional comedy value alone. For instance, he said he likes going back to visit his high school because "most of the teachers are still there", and I should hope so after three years. Then you have his wife, who is a stereotypical diamond girl. She talked about how she "never really noticed Jeff, even though they were friends, until he started doing "amazing things on the field" (Read between the lines, Hey! You ARE good enough to play pro sports. If I hook up with you, I won't have to work a day in my life! Hell YEAH! When and where do you want me to put out? ) And then you have his Dad you knew that his son had become a man "because he signed every last autograph". Also, most of the highlights are from his HS days conveniently taken from that channels feed.
Now, don't get me wrong- Francouer is a very talented player, but NO ONE, not even Babe Ruth, should have a TV special about their life after only one full season.
There's more to this than just a breaking out of a slump- for Pete's sake they sent him to the place where he hit the worst in his minor league career.
I'm thinking that he's probably been acting like an ******* or indifferent to his struggles. I would get cocky to if they made a lifetime achievement special on SportsSouth after two full seasons in the Big Leagues.
The show is worth watching for the unintentional comedy value alone. For instance, he said he likes going back to visit his high school because "most of the teachers are still there", and I should hope so after three years. Then you have his wife, who is a stereotypical diamond girl. She talked about how she "never really noticed Jeff, even though they were friends, until he started doing "amazing things on the field" (Read between the lines, Hey! You ARE good enough to play pro sports. If I hook up with you, I won't have to work a day in my life! Hell YEAH! When and where do you want me to put out? ) And then you have his Dad you knew that his son had become a man "because he signed every last autograph". Also, most of the highlights are from his HS days conveniently taken from that channels feed.
Now, don't get me wrong- Francouer is a very talented player, but NO ONE, not even Babe Ruth, should have a TV special about their life after only one full season.
The thing is they tried sitting him for a game or two at least twice already and that hadn't helped, so that's when they decided to send him down. They gave Franceour the choice of AAA or AA and he chose AA because he knew Wellman really well and Wellman had worked with him a lot when he was in MS the first time. I don't think he was acting like an ******* or anything in the clubhouse and it was obvious just watching him on tv that he was far from indifferent on his struggles. Frank Wren the Braves GM said it was the most difficult decision he had made in his 30 something years of baseball. They thought by sending him down he would have the chance to work out his struggles without any pressure to produce and simultaneously not hurt the big club with his 0-fers night after night cause they were fading fast in the standings. It was a last ditch effort to salvage his season.
they didn't talk to him about the move before they did it?
He was not happy about being sent down. He talked about how "it damaged his relationship with the Braves". (paraphrase)
Bobby Cox has been known to throw down the hammer with young players before- I remember one time that he pulled Andruw Jones out of a game in the middle of an inning.
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He was not happy about being sent down. He talked about how "it damaged his relationship with the Braves". (paraphrase)
Bobby Cox has been known to throw down the hammer with young players before- I remember one time that he pulled Andruw Jones out of a game in the middle of an inning.
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But I'm with Blind on this one. Sending him down was the right move. And I agree with 8 Dog in that I wish he'd stay down a little longer. If you've watched the Braves at all in the last few weeks, it should have been pretty obvious this slump has Francoeur mind-17ed. I was to the point of literally groaning if he came up to the plate late in a close game because I knew it was an automatic K. He needed to get out of Atlanta and go back to the minors to work his way out of the slump, because it damn sure wasn't going to happen in Atlanta if it hadn't happened already. Like Blind pointed out, they had tried to sit him a game or two before and he'd hit ok the next game, but then go right back to slumping. And he hates sitting so much it was hard to bench him for an extended period of time. When you put it all together, he had to go back to the minors. Blind, ArrowCS, and I had actually all come to the conclusion he needed to be sent down several days before the actual move was made. French can get pissed if he wants, but it had to be done. And I'll agree with Blind's theory on why he was recalled so soon. Essentially, with another player getting hurt last night, Bobby & Frank wanted to get some experience back in the OF instead of potentially playing 3 rookies out there.
I don't know why they didn't talk to him before it happened. I know the rumor had been circulating for a couple weeks that it was a possibility. I understand why Franceour was upset, but at the same time, he should have known that it was a possibility with the way he was hitting and the way the Braves were sinking in the standings.
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