With baseball in full swing, ESPN analyst Tim Kurkjian was a guest Monday of “Press Row” on Chattanooga’s ESPN 105.1 FM to discuss the Braves, the Lookouts and more.
Q: The folks in Las Vegas before the season had Atlanta as a 73-win team. Did they have that right?
A: “Yeah. I don’t think they’re going to be much better than that, and I think deep, deep down inside they know that. They took that team apart as they should have. That was a 79-win team last year that was deeply flawed offensively, and something had to be done. They moved the right people and saved an enormous amount of money and added all sorts of pitching in every deal that they made.
“I think they have the potential to be a really good team by 2017. They added to their young corps of starting pitching, which I think was really important.”
Tim KurkjianQ: That makes it tough on the season-ticket holders these next two years, doesn’t it?