<div>Now that is funny!</div><div>
</div><div>So I ignored Bourn's past OBP and I'm a moron. While you are ignoring Bourn's 2011 statistics and your not a moron? What's the difference? Both of us were ignoring certain stats to make our arguments appear stronger. But your not just ignoring Bourn's 2011 stats. Your also ignoring Beltran's 2011 stats by claiming that he would have been a huge upgrade over Bourn. The Braves gave up a MLB back up CF (who hasn't shown much of a future after getting caught using PEDs) and 3 pitching prospects. Two of those prospects just had a little "SSS" success and the Braves traded them while their stock was up. Those two (Clemens and Abreu) have maybe a 10% chance of ever having a significant MLB career and in return they got a guy hitting .303 (.284 vs L) with OBP of .362 (.321 vs L), 2x gold glove, and 2010 stolen base champ (while also leading this year). Plus Beltran is too old and slow to play CF, he will be a FA at the end of the year, and he is more likely to have an injury. Hasn't had a full playing year in 2 or 3 years.</div><div>
</div><div>But by your logic the Braves still missed out b/c they had the opportunity to give up more and get less in return by giving up an ELITE pitching prospect with a much better chance of a significant MLB career for renting a guy for 2 months that is having a worse year than Bourn. SF had to give up a top 35 prospect and currently ranked 15th among all pitching prospects (according to ESPN insider).</div><div>
</div><div>But all of that is okay because you can throw around the word moron and fool to make you appear like your more correct.</div><div>
</div><div>And since I'm up and not very tired I went ahead and got Prado's plate discipline stats from fangraphs.com to show your ignorance on that subject.</div><div>
</div><div>As of July 21st Martin Prado has watched the first strike 49.5% which is 2nd highest behind Jamey Carroll's 55.8%.</div><div>
</div><div>This season Prado's total swing percentage is 40.7 which is tied for 19th lowest in majors. So as you can clearly see, Prado is patient and doesn't swing the bat much.</div><div>
</div><div>But the reason for his low walk rate is simply because his contact% is at 90.6% which is 13th best in the majors. And also his zone% (percentage of pitches inside the strike zone) is 48.2% which is tied for 23rd highest in the majors. High contact% plus high zone% equals more balls put into play and fewer walks.</div><div>
</div><div>Good Day.</div>
