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I don't think you could script a worse start for the Braves.
-0-4 start
-Profar gets busted for PEDs; suspended 80 games
-Lopez going to the IL with shoulder inflammation
-3 game series upcoming with the Dodgers
Looks like the Braves sold their soul for their World Series championship much like Mississippi State did.
If strider and Acuna return at high level, braves will be fine. If they don't, tough year coming
They gonna need more than Strider. Hope he stays at his MLB Form and Acuna comes back at 100%.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Sale, SS, and SS are one of a top 3. I think AJSS can be a really solid back end guy. They'll need another guy, but should be a 4 available at deadline.Quote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
The offense is my concern.
And on the staff, Lopez may not be done.
The team BA is about 150. No One in the starting 9 is batting over 170.
Might be worth noting that the braves opponents are now 11-0. The Padres are 5-0 vs teams that were in playoffs last season. The dodgers are 4-0 vs teams that were in the playoffs last season. The dodgers and padres are probably the best teams in baseball right now... I expect that to stay that way for the dodgers.
The hitting is certainly a problem, but we're 3rd in mlb in barrels. 29th in babip despite hitting the ball hard. Babip with runners on is .105 (29th). Surely the Babip luck will progress to the mean.
We stink. I was going to join the FanDuel deal but i'm not sure it's even worth it now. Lopez is probably done for most of the year, Profar out for 80 games and these are the same hitters as last year.
Maybe. My concern is this lineup was built to mash the style of pitching from several years ago. The league has adjusted, and the Braves haven't. This seeks most pronounced with Riley and Olsen. Albies is just plain an undisciplined hitter. Harris should be fine. Ozuna is Ozuna, he was unaffected last year and appears so again. Arcia and Kelenic are trash. Baldwin has Willy Mays Hays power. It's just not a good lineup. And the bullpen is trash too. This team will lose a ton of games in the 6th and 7th innings.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
If they can hobble into the playoffs, and have Sale and Strider healthy, anything can happen.
I'm certainly worried, but 1/34 with RISP does seem flukish. Hopefully as that stat progresses to the mean, wins happen
We're paying a heavy price to the baseball gods for 2021(NC for State, and WS for Braves) and it's tripled for me because Brady won #7 that year as well. 2021 was a great year for me, sportswise.
No MLB team has ever started 0-7 and made the postseason.
While true, it probably needs an asterisk. There wasn't a WC for forever, and now it's 3 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
True. Probably a better chance of that first time happening than Lemo making a regional.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Both are gonna have a good weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
I hope
I know a team that started 13-0 and didn't make it either/Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
LOL!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
There was a Braves team back in the eighties when I followed them closely that opened the season with a string of wins. Then they got torched in the postseason by the Cardinals.
they won a game yet?
Nah, they'll get one in a week or 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
2021 is my favorite sports year. State wins the National Championship, I get to go to a Braves World Series win (almost no hitter), Braves win the WS, and football goes back to a bowl game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Bonus points, my wife and I went with a friend's family to Auburn. At halftime he is talking about how at least we can experience Toomers Corner getting rolled. Fast forward to the greatest half of football in MSU history against Auburn. It was beautiful.
After they get done losing to the Mighty Marlins, the Braves will be 1-8.
This team sucks.