Braves Re-Sign Greg Norton

He's a good benchman. He can play OF and 1B. I like this signing.

yea he is a good 9th inning pinch hitter with no speed and no stick. ie: "o look here comes k-rod, lets send up norton to strike out..ect"

anyways, joey gathright would have been a steal for 800k this year over norton

"anyways, joey gathright would have been a steal for 800k this year over norton"

Greg Norton = pinch hitter, not defensive substitution.

Gathright = defensive substitution, not pinch hitter.

Huge difference among bench players.

"This past season, Norton led all Major Leaguers with three pinch-hit homers, 18 pinch-hit RBIs, and 17 pinch-hit walks. His 18 pinch-hits ranked second behind Philadelphia's Greg Dobbs...Since the start of the 2001 season, he leads all Major Leaguers with 13 pinch-hit homers and 64 pinch-hit RBIs."

Absolutely solid signing.

Gregor Blanco has all of that for much cheaper. Norton is intended as a HITTER, not a defensive replacement.

Someone finally signed with the Braves...Yeah!!!

nixa37 and daslied very nice insight, yall win this round, we are all braves fans though. lets give em hell next year!!!

Wow a poster that's actually willing to change his mind when presented with a reasonable argument? With the way things have gone on this site lately I didn't thing such a thing still existed.

Norton was intended to be used only as a pinch-hitter last year. He's an excellent pinch-hitter and can come off the bench and change the game. Like I said, his / stats in that role speak for themselves. He makes any national league team more complete and better. Good for the Braves. I always get excited when I see Greg Norton with a bat in the on-deck circle in close and late situations.

Norton is an awesome player to have. Occaisional power, very patient. Just always seems to do what he's asked.
And lets not forget his two web gems in LF. He does the job in the field aswell.
A proffesional. I'm very happy to have him back because he's a rare commodity.

Mike gonzalez went 14 of 16 which is 87.5 of his saves which isn't bad but krod had so many chances to blow more saves but he still was at 89 percent.

You can't argue that KRod is incredibly ineffecient in nailing down games.
I'm really looking forward to seeing if the Braves can do anything with him. They've always done a pretty good job against closers.

I'd love to agree the braves are good against closers, but honestly they're just good at getting the tying runner into scoring position and then blowing it. Guys like Norton that can come up in the clutch will help prevent that.

People of the nl east don't know how to face krod like lidge last year. Krod is better than lidge and krod promise to him 96 again so doubters will have to wait and be blown away

"I'll tell you one thing about K-Rod he doesn't blow away people anymore like he used to. Now its mainly his curve."

His out pitch has always been mainly his curve. His fastball was always a show me pitch. In fact, I think this year is the first time I actually saw him trying to throw strikes with it. It also appears that no one outside the Angels and Mets realize just how good his change is.

Atlanta already has 3 Joey Gaithright why would they need a 4 th?

Roberty...need I mention Dan Kolb?

"Horrible. Greg Norton is probably my least favorite Brave of all time. With the large exception of Corky Miller...and Bob Wickman."

You clearly started watching baseball in 2007.

How can anyone hate Greg Norton? Hes GREG NORTON