Atlanta Braves Fan Confidence Poll

All they need to do, is play .580 baseball to win the world series, 11 wins, this can be done! I give them a 7 because it is going to be an uphill battle, but this team has the potential to play with the best, even if they haven’t shown it down the stretch. I believe the future of this team has great potential with the young guys coming up and the ones that are already here. Who will be next years manager is going to be the key. It might be such a culture shock compared to how Bobby treated his players, I guess we won’t know til ’11.

The winnage of the Wild Card bumps me up to a 9 – that and the fact that our young guns excite me for next season and beyond.

i think that we will get by SF but if the Phils take down the reds i fear we may not get much further than that… i hope i am wrong but i cant help but think about the last few weeks and cringe. my confidence for next season is pretty damn high though, id put that at a 8. we will be young but a lot of fun to watch. hopefully Freddy can keep up Bobby’s tradition of managing winners

This poll would be higher every week.

We made the playoffs, something that we haven’t done in several years. Anything can happen now.

We won the Wild Card… we’re in the playoffs! Is that not something to be excited about? Given our struggles this year, we’re still one of the best teams in the NL and we’ve got a shot at bringing a World Series back home.

Now, just imagine how much better we’ll be next year once Chipper and Jurrjens heal up and we find someone capable to play the OF with Heyward. Not to mention Medlen’s comeback and the advancement of our pitching prospects.

1 more thing though, if Farnsworth earns a roster spot over Kimbrel for the bullpen I’m going to throw something.

I voted 9.

confidence poll….was not "would we win the whole she-bang, world series and all…….it was more of a “How do you like me now” as in an oversight of our organization.
It would have to focus on several criteria
1. Players
2. Management
3. Future potential

I assumed you were asking that…..so I gave it an 8. Frank Wren brings it down a little for buying lower quality front line players but I won’t throw him under a big buss (maybe a short yellow one that I may or may not have rode on) because of his moves to bolster our bullpen and our bench……. and who knows, maybe buying (and still having) Lowe last year might be paying off now?

On the contingency that we do some defensive drills before Thursday.

We got to the playoffs. That’s all I care about right now

That having the sixth-best record in baseball (we own the tiebreaker against the Reds) only earns the team a 6 (or below) rating with some people.

It is fact that our record was better than 80% of the league (tiebreaker w/ Reds included). We have a ton of young talent, both on the current team and waiting to come up in a year or two. Come next season, we’ll have the best problem in baseball – too much pitching.

I realize the Braves did have a historical playoff streak not too many years back, but I’ve got to guess at this point that many people’s expectations are far too high for any team not named the Yankees.

-C

to finally be able to give this team a 9. I’ve been at 7/8 all year and was just waiting for them to make the playoffs before moving to a 9. Great job, boys.

Dropping 5 of 6 to Philly in September is not confidence inspiring, but I like our chances against SF, especially with a shortened rotation.

Not a 9 because of realistic playoff win probabilities, and not a 10 because I still don’t like being owned by a corp and I have questions about the outfield. Oh, and the training/medical staff needs to be revamped. Other than that, I’m right where I’ve been all year.

As always, the future is so bright, I gotta wear shades.

I’m a bit iffy on the management part of our future until I know who the Braves are getting to replace someone who is simply irreplaceable in my eyes.

I’m confident in the front office and in Wren’s ability to evaluate the holes in our lineup/fielding and acquire the upgrades we so obviously need.

As for performance of on the field, I’m not so optimistic. I don’t know what the hell we are celebrating around here. The only reason we have the Wild Card right now, rather than having to win a playoff game for it, is because the Giants beat the Padres last night. By any objective measure, we stumbled backwards into our playoff berth…and we almost let that slip away. So while I will cheer loud and proud for my Braves each and every game, the surety with which a felt that our team was a legitimate World Series team earlier this year has been methodically tempered of late.

Nothing has changed about the organization from one week to the next for a while. Sure, players have gotten hurt and had to be replaced on the active ML roster, but that does not affect my confidence in the organization. Nor should it anyone’s. Sure, it may affect the outcome of a team’s game, or a few games, but doesn’t affect the overall concept of what the organization is doing, or attemtpting to do down the road.

after being at 9 most of the year, the swoon down the stretch has me a bit worried about playoff sustainability. The farm’s doing well, and the future’s bright. I think the Giants are beatable if the Gods favor us for once.

Because the recent loss of five out of six games to the Phillies shook me up. I was always voting ten in the past. I recognize that this poll is about a bigger thing than just recent woes or successes, but they still factor in. That being said, this is baseball, and I can tell you, if anyone had predicted that the last 12 games for all the National League contenders would go like it did, I would have laughed. But there it is, and we are in. So I still consider an 8 a pretty high vote, and even though I may not be 100% confident, I still like our chances. And I am really proud of the organization for putting together a team that made it to the playoffs! That is quite an accomplishment regardless of what happen from here. Go Braves!

I’ve been at an 8 nearly the entire season with the exception of a few 7’s. Anything under a 7 I can’t really understand. This team lost 2of it’s best hitters and 2 very good starters for a good deal of the year and managed to battle for and hold on to a playoff spot. Although they haven’t been playing great as of late, the Braves got themselves into a position where they had some margin for error in case of injuries/sub par play. We’ve really stepped up when we most needed to (Marlins series anyone?) and won when we most needed to on Sunday.

We have multiple young guys who’ve stepped up into starting roles and flourished, a savvy GM who isn’t trading away our future for one shot, and one of the best farm systems in baseball.

Sure, the Phillies are a better team than us, and I’ll be scared shitless if we face them in the playoffs, but the better team doesn’t always win. Seems as if many voters compare the 2010 Braves to the 2010 Phillies and come up with a lower rating than they otherwise would have. Because of how good the Phils look right now. In 10 years the Phillies might be back to mediocre and our farm system will still be pumping out all stars. This organization is rock sold.