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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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Who do you guys think we land tmr?
Hopefully someone for the pen.
We got a replacement for Sobotka tonight. We need a closer but so does half of MLB. It's only a good move if he's a clear upgrade from Jackson. My ultimate prize would be Giants starter Madison Bumgarner. I think it's highly unlikely we can beat The Dodgers without a shut down playoff starter. Bumgarner has been the best postseason starter over the past 10 years in my opinion and he's back pitcher like a top of the rotation guy now. That said, I don't see how moving him is in The Giants' best interest. They are playing great right now and going into tonight's games they were just 3 games off the pace for a wildcard spot.
Maybe time for you to consider my (and many others) thoughts of “closers are for dummies”. If we can just have like 5 actual good bullpen arms we can piece the ends of games together, no need to have a guy who pitches every 9th inning.
In general the highest leverage situations can come up in any inning and that’s when I want our best arms going, not arbitrarily just saving them for a save situation. But then again knowing snit and how he maintains kind of classic roles, I am sure he will put someone in that role anyway.
Ive kind of maintained all week that I think it’s more likely we get 2 or 3 bp arms that are upgrades than it is we get an ace closer type.
Mariano Rivera is the only closer. Everyone else just saves games
Kirb is going to love this. Mets closer Edwin Diaz has a 4.95 ERA and I want to trade for him. What's more he's pitched great this season.
He has given up 16 earned runs over 4 appearances and just 3 total innings.
The other 36 innings over 41 appearances he has given up just 6 earned runs for a 1.50 ERA. He has been dominant over his career and just 3 innings has skewed his ERA, he is still dominant other than those anomalies. Heck he gave up 13 of those earned runs while going 0.1 inning each appearance, that's a total 1.0 inning where he gave up 13 of the 22 runs he's surrendered over 45 appearances.
Back a ways in this thread I gave Rivera's stats from age 33 through age 43, it was practically super human.
I had the chance to talk to Mariano Rivera a couple months ago on the golf course. The guy has a crazy life story on how he got to the majors. Btw the cutter he threw was all natural. He didn’t have to do anything to the ball after his surgery to make the ball cut like it did.
Tomorrow Mike Soroka faces an old compadre Anabel Sanchez. I like our chances in this one.
Soroka has been dominant on the road with a 1.19 ERA while going 6.0. Sanchez has a 3.40 ERA at home, advantage good guys. I hadn't realized how much better Soroka has been on the road vs at home where he is 4-2 and his ERA is 4.08.
It's felt a bit like we're scuffling a bit recently, so a win tomorrow to stretch the lead to 6.5 games would be fantastic.
another guy you think you want, but actually don't....although outside of the bright lights of nyc he might be less of a mental midget
I like your enthusiasm, but go back and look at our history against Anabel Sanchez, he has owned us just about every time we’ve faced him.
He's been tough for us when we had him and tough on us since he's been with the Nats. Could be a dogfight but our bats are showing a few signs of life.
I don't know what his role is going to be but if it drops everyone one spot down the order in the bullpen it can help - maybe better 6th, 7th and 8th inning work? I don't think they are through yet.
I just have this bad feeling Allard is going to turn into a really good pitcher. No evidence to support it, but I'm thinking Adam Wainright type stuff.