Next series is Cleveland, who has the 2nd best record in mlb behind the braves
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Next series is Cleveland, who has the 2nd best record in mlb behind the braves
I swear Austin Riley has been to the Hunter Hines hitting school lol!
Well so much for this thread and season.
Acuna: out for the year
Strider: out for the year
Murphy: missed 2 months from the first game
Harris: missed 2 months in the middle of the season
Ozzie: going to end up missing 2 months
Minter: out for the year
Riley: out for 6-8 weeks
Fried: has been hurt some
L?pez: elbow inflammation; coming back tomorrow
Can't make this up.
Hopefully the last entry in this thread will be Snit retires, AA fired.
AA has sat on his hands for too long. This trade deadline was a joke. Eflin and Arozerena were rumored targets and moved for next to nothing. All the Crochet talk was a pipe dream but he could have done more than adding Soler. Now we are gonna waste a Cy Young type season for Sale, an MVP type for Ozuna, let Fried walk and still have to fill a bunch of holes in the rotation and OF next season.
And that doesn’t event count the terrible SS position that will need to be addressed
But still with a chance at a NL wild card spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
Sorry but I can't blame AA for this. Literally the entire team has been injured at some point minus Matt Olson. Let's not ignore the fact he worked a deal for Chris Sale (the NL CY young front runner) in which the Red Sox are still paying his salary. He's also back next year. If you replace these season ending injuries with just normal injuries that every team has, we're likely even with the Phillies at this pointQuote:
Originally Posted by RockyDog
So, fire the guys responsible for the best run since Schurholz was around? Nah. When you lose that list of players to injury, you don't mortgage the farm to take a chance on a Wild Card.Quote:
Originally Posted by RockyDog
AA has done a solid job of plugging some holes, hasn't given up anything, and still has a solid chance at the playoffs - missing an a huge amount of talent.
Don't feed him!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Really tough season. I've been frustrated basically the whole season. Even with Riley down, if they can get Lopez, fried, and sale healthy in the playoffs with soler and albies back, they would be a tough out.
Doing the Jays-Braves game on 9/7 with my son Christopher. Then the first playoff race the next day on his birthday at Atlanta Motor Speedway; he'll be 23.
Oh yeah. We did John Waite-Styx-Foreigner at The Wharf this past Saturday. It was FABULOUS.
I guess I'll throw in we went to the Indy500 back in May.
And I just bought him his first race car. It's on the lift in my garage. Shooting for his first race at Five Flags in late September.
Just hanging on to each other in the wake of Carol's passing and making memories while we do.
God is good.
AMEN Brother
Same here. Somehow they've kept plugging away with a pretty much triple aaa+ lineup and some pretty dang good pitching and defense. If they can just get to the tournament, you always have a chance if you got arms and one thing the Braves have going for them right now is arms.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
PS I love this Grant Holmes kid!
Great post! only 4 starters left from the opening day lineup(including last years mvp), strider out, fried, lopez and minter have missed significant time and yet they're still in the hunt. It's a miracle they're still in the hunt. There's very few teams if any that could still be in the hunt with the amount of talent the braves are missing right now. Credit to the leadership and culture theyve built.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Sure the injury bug is ridiculous this season and it's gotten even worse SINCE the deadline. But AA could have done some things to help the situation, and he didn't. There were outfield pieces available that fit MUCH better than adding another DH and sentimental piece like Soler. He could have added a decent arm like an Eflin, Montas, Fedde, Quantrill and ended the ridiculous Vines/Dodd/Elder rotation of trash that gives away a win every 5th start.
You look at the standings across MLB and NOBODY is running away with a great record this year, so this is actually the season that you could absorb some of these crazy injuries and still be competitive. However, because of AA's ignorance, we are stuck with an outfield consisting of Michael Harris, a DH, a streaky Kelenic and backup sub Mendoza hitters followed by a completely depleted infield.
Braves didn't wanna cross the next threshold of the luxury tax and lose draft position in a season with so many injuries. Getting soler was a pretty salty move while being able to stay under that threshold.
I don't think the braves need any more pitching assuming fried and Lopez stay healthy. And if they don't, we're screwed anyway... none of the guys available at deadline were as good as them.
If we gonna critique who wasn't gotten at the deadline, probably should give AA some credit for guys he did find. Laureano has a 138 wrc+ as a brave, and whit has a 127 wrc+ as a brave. By the way, soler is 169 wrc+ as a brave.
As I said earlier, the name of the game for the braves now is keep the big 3 (sale, fried, and Lopez) healthy. No one wants to face those guys in a 3/5 game series
The only time the Opening Day lineup has played together this season was on opening day. That's insane.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
It's insane, I've never seen a team bit by the injury bug like this in my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Saw an article today that said 762 games had been missed by injured Braves so far this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Yep. Playing to the terrible postseason format. Get at least a WC, have 3 top starters, and hope the lineup gets hot at the right time.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Braves sweep the Twins.
5 games behind the Phillies with a 4 game series upcoming in Philly.
Take 3 of 4, and this last month is gonna be fun