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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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Melancon from the Giants as well
The Braves have deals in place to acquire Tigers closer Shane Greene and Giants reliever Mark Melancon, pending medicals, sources told MLB.com's Jon Paul Morosi on Wednesday. The clubs have not confirmed either deal.
Three new guys. That is basically a total overhaul.
We just got better.
I'm guessing Nuke will get another shot at starting soon.
So happy to have new relief pitchers. Watching "Nuke" pitch in the ninth was detrimental to my health.
I don’t know why is going on but I have been on fire with my braves predictions lately. I called them getting a gluttony of reliever upgrades over a marquee guy, and calling up Duvall (albeit not the way I’d hoped in a Markakis injury).
my next prediction is we acquire mike trout in the off season
I’m glad my drive home takes me an hour and a half. I was about ready to drive my car through a tree listening to the 9th inning. I don’t want to see Luke effing Jackson come out of the gates to the pen anymore. Does not matter to me that he is a 6th or 7th inning guy, I’m done with him. I know Snit is from the Cox tree, but even Cox had enough of Dan Kolb and didn’t put him out there anymore.
Now, on to the happy news. We won. We also traded for a legitimate closer in Greene, what should be a good setup man in Melancon, and Martin last night. Bullpen looks a h.ell of a lot better now.
Bad news. We didn’t get a starter. I think we win the division, but get bounced from the 1st round or whenever we play the Dodgers. They’re horses are thoroughbreds and ours are Shetland Ponies.
The Astros traded for Zack Greinke. They have to be the favorites to win it all now. Just think if we'd got him.
Not entirely sure who Brad Greinke is, or if he’s any good, but Zack Greinke does indeed make the Astro’s a top contender. I wanted him and his $70 million over the next 2 years bad.
@Kirbstomper
Mets added Stroman bc they are losing Wheeler (most likely). Looking to compete next year. deGrom, Syndegaard, Stroman, Matz is a decent starting four.
Wish they could've dumped Diaz bc I don't think he's mentally cut out for NYC.
Ultimately, it won't matter. Wilpons still own the team and the Wilpons find a way to screw the pooch every year.
I edited right away wise arse.
Anyway. Houston now has
1, Justin Verlander - 2.73 ERA 0.81 WHIP
2A. Gerrit Cole - 2.94 ERA 1.00 WHIP
2B - Zack Greinke 2.87 ERA 0.94 WHIP
4 - Wade Miley 3.06 ERA 1.12 WHIP
Three aces and a top level number 2.
Liberty was never going to allow a high dollar move like signing Greinke.
ensures the Yankees are not playing in the World Series again this year
That blown save was actually Newcomb's FWIW. The guy that gets the blown save is the guy that's in, not the pitcher that puts the ducks on the pond.
I was actually screaming for him to start that inning in the first place with Eaton and Soto up (Eaton got an absolute BS hit by the way, it was almost in the glove and then it was just dribbled to the perfect place), he probably does fine with the bases clean, but they weren't there.
I hope so. It's going to be tough for any team to win 4 out of 7 against Houston with those guys lined up like a gauntlet.
Teams don’t typically pay deadline premiums for guys they won’t need until next year. Really weird move to make. Sure this helps them next year, but still really odd decision making considering the timeline.