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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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I'm sure you know they go back to grade school together. Catching wears the body down for sure. Brian had great hands with the bat when he came up, his bat speed is a fraction of what it once was.
Folty has been pitching his tail off since coming back up. If his next start is a good one, he could be our game 2 starter.
McCann making me look bad with the HR tonight, hopefully a sign of good things to come. Another great outing by Folty, makes we wonder which of our starting pitchers will be the odd man out in the playoffs - Julio or Fried? If it was up to me, I would use Fried as the 4th starter, but think they will probably go with Julio.
NL EAST CHAMPS 2019 !!
This is setting up to be a very memorable sports weekend. Folty has without doubt pitched his way into the postseason rotation. This was a masterful game for him.
This seems like a good point to give our guesses as to the postseason rotation. There are some tough choices but here is mine.
1.Keuchel. a very calm and collected guy. I don't think the moment will faze him
.2.Folty. Based purely on his last 12 starts he'd be 1st up. I don't think he needs that pressure though.
3.Soroka. He has been far better on the road than at home or he'd be 1 or 2.
4.Julio. He has to be in there somewhere. He's been very dependable all season
Fried will be the reserve starter and ultra long reliever, he's good enough to start, but there are only 4 spots, maybe just 3 in td 1.
I would slot Soroka as the #1 starter. He's been our most dependable pitcher this entire year, but otherwise I agree with you.
I don't think he wants to start at home. He has been FAR better on the road this season.
I would say the opponent matters, too. Against the Cardinals I'd probably give Julio a shot due to his experience. However, were we to get through to the dodgers that might change. He's had trouble keeping the ball in the yard the last few outings and you can't have that against that lineup. You will pay bigly.
Snitker has some tough choices to make.
No doubt. I wonder if the series gets to 2-1, for instance, could you see a setup where Teheran starts but only goes 3. Then Fried comes in for 3 and you go from there. That would throw variety at them in terms of speed, matchups, etc and would also allow you to go all hands on deck, everyone available the next game if you had to.
If you mean a preplanned 3 inning stint, probably not. Of course starters are on a shorter leash when a loss vs a win is so critical though. That is why it will be nice to have a really good starter on standby.
Soroka at home - 6-3 4.14 era
Soroka on road - 7-1 1.35 era
I would have Soroka starting game 3 on the road.
Agreed, you play the odds.
In less gut wrenching sports news The Braves beat S.F 8-1 to get to 96-60. They need to go 4-2 the rest of the way to reach 100 wins.
Adam Duvall is playing well. His ops is .863 - above the MLB average.
I'll admit that I was wrong, because I was steamed that we didn't sign Kimbrel earlier this year. Thank God I'm not running things, because he has been nothing short of terrible. After the Cubs cut the division lead to 2 games last week, they've since lost 6 straight and 5 straight by 1 run.
Kimbrel on the season has blown three saves, is 0-4 with a 6.53 ERA, and has given up a career-high 9 homers in just 20.2 innings.
Meanwhile, Melancon is 11-11 on save opportunities. Since that god-awful loss to the Marlins in which the Braves blew a 6-2 9th inning lead (the now infamous fire extinguisher game), Melancon has pitched 14 innings and given up just 5 earned runs (3.21 ERA); he had two outings where he gave up a couple of runs, but the Braves were up by 4 in both of those instances. Melancon has allowed just one homer since he was traded to Atlanta.