Fun while it lasted, but I gotta feeling we bout to be blasted back to medicority the next few days.
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Fun while it lasted, but I gotta feeling we bout to be blasted back to medicority the next few days.
I called it back at the All-Star break. It would've been nearly impossible to stay as hot as we started out.
Also, can we get rid of Dansby yet? I don't see the appeal with him. Average fielder (even though he's gotten better this year) and a below average hitter who can't lay off an 0-2 slider to save his life. Slide Camargo over to SS and call Riley up. Trade Dansby for pitching help and it's a win.
I'm also ready to cut ties with Ender, but the thought of Acuna as our everyday CF scares me. I know's he's still young, but he makes some of the worst reads on balls.
Frustrating loss for sure.
April: 5 games over .500
May: 5 games over .500
June: 3 games over .500
July: 3 games under .500
August: 2 games over .500
There are ups and downs in the season but that's pretty consistent month to month. And I would have never guessed they'd still be 10+ games over .500 a week into August. Half the starting lineup is under 25 years old so they will probably hit a wall. Maybe they won't. Nevertheless, good job bridging the gap to football season this year.
Yeah, but he's also had stretches this year where he's hit well. Overall, he's been around average, maybe slightly below, as a SS with the bat.
He needs to bring his K rate down a bit and bring his BB rate up a bit. That's it. If he does those 2 things (2-3 percentage points each), changing nothing else, he's suddenly an above-average SS offensively. Not by a whole lot, but that whole package, with his defense, would be worth something like 3.5 WAR, which is more than fine.
Dansby has a 1.3 defensive WAR. His offensive WAR is 1.0. So if you don't like his offensive, his defensive in terms of WAR isn't exactly lighting it up.
Another very good start by Newcomb
Here's an idea. Make Charlie freaking Culberson the starting SS until Dansby figures it out.
I'm half kidding, but CC is tearing it up lately.
Bats heatling up. Hopefully this continues. Carmargo at short by the way.
Culberson with a terrible error at third. Yeesh
Braves just keep surprising me. I really didn't see us getting a split at worst. Great job.
Keep the faith, man. We are 8-2 in the last 10 games. Maybe Hunter Renfroe will punish the Phils for a few days, then they have to face the Red Sox again. They also play 6 games with the Nats this month.....Braves have 8 more games against the Marlins - need to beat them up.