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Not sure who Kimberly is but Kimbrel is likely finished. this could have been the Braves way of letting him finish his career as a Brave. Maybe.
Meanwhile Elder is throwing a gem!! Is it possible we can avoid using the bullpen? Elder only has 94 pitches after 7 innings of 3-hit ball. I dread going to that pen.
Why did we let Freeman, Swanson and Freid go? Drat!!
Hoping the 2-1 lead going into the bottom of the ninth would hold up. Nope. Two-run homerun wins it for the Giants. No lead is safe with this team. A one-run lead is like no lead at all.
Geez.
Corrected, thanks. My finger getting fatter and eyes weaker in old age.
Other clubs with ridiculous cash to throw around signed them to long term contracts. Freeman maybe only 1 that might be able to justify his contract. Fried will be owed 29 mil per year for pitching at ages 37, 38, 39.
Well, I guess it wasn't possible to avoid going to the pen. Why not just bring up all our young pitchers and start getting them some experience. All that could go wrong is that we would lose, which is all that is happening anyway. It just kills me to keep losing these one-run games with the lousy bullpen.
The last three games are embarrassing. Long term, it might be for the best. Acuna and Strider come back and somehow we’ve gotten worse. Fire Snit. I understand if they wanna wait until after we host the All Star Game. We can’t waste the talent that’s left like it’s 1996-2006.
Another 1 run loss. Only 6 hits. Strider is improving but what does that matter for a team that can't seemingly hit it's way out of a wet paper bag. Depressing. I wonder what the MLB record is for most one run losses in a season. We've got to be getting close and the season in not even half over.
Honest question here for my fellow Braves fans. We currently sit at 10 games under 500 (27-37). 14 games out of first place, 4th place in the East and only 2.5 games out of last place. We are roughly 40% of the way though the season. I see no signs of life from this team that gives me any real confidence that we will get things turned around and make a post season run….. maybe I'm misreading it, but I don't think so. All that said, are we buyers or sellers at the trade deadline? If we sell, who's out the door? If we buy, who could we bring in that would make a real difference?
Great questions. Not sure who'd be available. AA would have to work some magic. Despite injuries, starting pitching looks solid (to me) and will likely even improve as the younglings gain more experience. Bullpen? Yikes. That looks like a hot mess. This is where AA might prove most helpful. We could use a left fielder (plus some real improvement in CF). There is likely someone out there who could help. With the trade deadline coming up, I think we'll see something. We need a SS who can hit.
The only "sellable" product I would be comfortable trading would be Ozuna, and even though he's middling right now he's been fairly reliable. I'd hold onto Eli White. I guess that's why AA gets paid the big bucks.
Let’s just start with selling the manager. If we got a new hardass type manager that actually made his players work out, it would do wonders for our team! It’s well known around baseball the Braves are lax in workouts, and evident seeing our guys in uniform compared to the rest of the league. Michael Harris’ off season training buddy, A’s center fielder Lawrence Butler, called Mike fat, not really as a joke, and questioned the Braves off season workout program publicly. Not that anyone really needed confirmation of this.
It’s the soft body mentality of our organization that must change. Otherwise, we just bring in more great players and turn them into unproductive slobs until they get hurt.
Yes, that’s how I really feel. lol 😆
Sellers.
As to who to sell I dunno. It takes two to tango. Maybe a team loses their catcher. Well Id love to let them have Murphy. Baldwin seems like he can handle starting just fine. Olson would be fine to go as well if a team needs a bat.
It’s well known around baseball the Braves are lax in workouts
Can't be too well known - I haven't heard or read of it. Perhaps you favor the Japanese style which is more hard core - you might try watching their league instead of all these "fat" guys.
You might be on to something, but I'd need more than "it's well known" to convince me. Do you have any specific ideas about what they "should" be doing?
Sadly, I agree that the Atlanta Braves are now simply falling apart. They are a complete and total hot mess.