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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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Thanks GG. Wilson shows a lot of promise.
Yep, there's a good article on The Athletic about Folty, Soroka, Newcomb, and Wilson (amongst others). Snitker seems to be giving Folty more tough love in a fairly blunt "he needs to figure it out," but still supportive, kind of way, while the pitching coach is trying to be more "rah rah" supportive.
I'm not sure either get your shiit together or I feel your pain are particularly constructive at this point without professional expertise on dealing with Folty's condition, and I think by now calling it a condition is valid. He has lost all confidence in himself and he's beating himself up over it, that couldn't be good. Bring in the best available people who have specific experience in pulling pitchers out of these funks.
I would assume they are, given Folty is open to the help, especially with a potentially great season ahead for the Braves. Having 2018 Folty back would go a longways for the team. Especially when we don't know if the young starters will keep their form with the number of innings they'll be pitching.
Teddy. Having the Folty of last season would be huge. We've all seen pitchers have great second halves after struggling before the all star break, here's hoping.
Julio is simply back to being Julio. He will always have as many bad starts as he does good starts.
Edit. I just looked over Julio's game logs going back to 2014. He has actually had a higher percentage of quality starts than I've given him credit for.
Ready to see Carmargo play some in right y eld. Nick is not having a season like 2018.
The only good thing I saw tonight for the Braves was that Sobotka came in and threw strikes. He can help our bullpen if he gets back to pitching like he was when we brought him up last season.
LD10. Markakis is on course to finish the season with 90 RBIs, score 100 runs, have 155 hits and his OBP is .359. His OPS is down because he has fewer extra base hits, but he's been productive.
I think Markakis has been and will continue to be productive for us in the 5-hole. He can clean up for some of the guys in front like he did last night because he puts the ball in play - he's currently 20th in at-bats to strikeouts ratio at 6.77.
We saw him wilt wilt after a phenomenal first half last year, let’s not run him into the ground. Especially now that we have legitimate backup players to make spot starts for him.
Markakis's age is completely irrelevant. The only question that matters is if we have somebody better to take those at bats, I don't think we do. I've said before on this board some of today's metrics make sense, some are convoluted BS. Get on base at a high rate up and down the lineup and the team will score a lot of runs. We're not among the best in power numbers, but we're top 5 by every measure of real production, including runs scored.