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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.
Looks that way. They're certainly driving me crazy. Should see Murphy, verdugo, and strider this week or next. Verdugo isn't great, but kelenic is horrible. Hopefully Riley remembers how to hit soon. Braves still favorite to win East at golden moon, shockingly.Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
The Braves need that weekend against the Rockies to get here real fast.
get the bp ready. Ligon at 64 but he falls off quick.
2-9.
The team isn't good.
Rough start for sure. Maybe SS can get us a series win tomorrow.
this team is built wrong. you absolutely have to have "glue" guys or "locker room" guys to have success in baseball. both regular season and postseason. when you start looking only at production vs $$ then this is what you get. the talent is there so this team will end up winning more than they lose but they will always falter at crunch time and the start to the season just epitomizes that fact.
AA struck lightning with the championship team and his moves...but at the same time that team had the steady core of fried, morton, freeman, darnaud, and swanson. i'm not saying all should still be on the team but you cant let all of them leave either.
riley and olson are basically the same guy from a quiet leadership standpoint. sale is the type of guy you need but he can't be the only one and his stamp really hasn't been put on this team. albies has to quit playing the game selfishly, especially at the plate. ozuna is basically the heart of this team. this team is really the total opposite of all the good teams of the 90s onward. not steady. boom or bust. front running seems to be entrenched from both a game, season, and postseason standpoint. they have a hard time getting up after being knocked down. and thats not a historic trait of a snitker led team.
its not overly fun to watch right now....hopefully the tide will turn after this series victory over philly
I just see this team as the inevitable result of the playoff structure, corporate owners, and a smart GM. Once you make the playoffs, extra money spent on the roster barely moves the needle on your odds of winning. You can spend $150M and have a 5% chance of a championship, or spend $500M and have a 10% chance. They know what they're doing, they want to be just good enough to make the playoffs.
The only question is what this team will do if they look not quite good enough to make the playoffs. Will they swing a big mid-season trade ? Or will they cut bait and re-arm for next season? I doubt they'll do the former, the talent just isn't there to go get and the farm system is weak. Maybe a quality corner OF, that shouldn't be too expensive, unlike a top SP or SS.
However, I'm still of the opinion that with Strider and Acuna back on the team, that this is a playoff team.
I'm anxious to hear Acuna's report next week and what inning limit will strider have.
You knew it was gonna happen. Let Fried and Morton walk and bring in nobody to replace them. You have Sale regressing, Lopez probably out for 3/4 of the season and we are now in year 3 of Bryce Elder or insert other AAA trash sucking it up every 5th day for an automatic loss.
Won 7 of their last 8.
3 straight series wins.
The Bravos are hot.
definitely playing better baseball right now. as i said earlier the talent is there and should be getting better over the next month. but whatever the weakness is it shows up ten fold when its crunch time, especially against top tier competition.
hopefully this colorado series will make all feel better and hit their stride. but with this team i'm not counting on anything. momentum is only at strong as your next days starting pitcher...and looks like that'll be elder and smith-shawver
Hopefully by mid-May we have strider and Acuna back. Put Ozzie 8th in lineup and we should be okQuote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
Might need a new closer too. Iglesias has been awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Yes he has. I'm more than slightly worried about him.Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
Speaking of worried... our GM is becoming a problem. He signed Eddie Rosario to an mlb deal today, not a milb deal.
Yeah that doesn't make sense to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Don't get signing Anderson back either.
Been a problem, but yes he is. I don’t get the constant rotation of cutting/trading and then resigning trash. Anderson, Rosario, Chavez. Shit let’s go get Joc from the Rangers and insert his 0 for 41 ass into the lineup.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
What I also don’t get is WHY did you do nothing at SS and then give up completely on Arcia in less than 2 weeks? I mean nobody realistically expected a big money SS but there were some options out there. This Nicky Allen dude hit .175 for the As last year.
For the first time since opening day when they were 0-0, the Braves have a .500 record
Good to get back to .500 but some troubling signs. Outside of Riley, not one batter in the top 10 in the NL in any offensive category. Braves are currently the 3rd lowest scoring team in the NL. Allen is a Punch and Judy hitter. Albies has been awful. Harris has been a shade better than awful. Still need a bullpen guy and possibly another starter. Could get a starter and put Holmes and Elder back in the pen.
Who knows what happens with the OF once Profar returns and then you lose any production of his for the postseason.
Acuna will be back in a week. Acuna back at the top and turning Verdugo and white into a platoon of the 2 will help. Harris is starting to get it going. Ozzie with 2 hits tonight, and really good ABs since Sunday... I think he's close. Oh, and strider should be back this weekend. Things are looking upQuote:
Originally Posted by BravesDoggy
Profar back in a month and a halfQuote:
Originally Posted by msstate7