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(05-22-2019 09:29 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote: [ -> ]Forget being a top 10 player, is Harper even a good player?
2018: 134 OPS+/1.3 bWAR
2019: 115 OPS+/0.7 bWAR

Overall, he's had a very strange career.

He shoulda' went west Coast. Eventually he'll be an albatross in Philly.

(05-22-2019 10:36 AM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-22-2019 08:06 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote: [ -> ]Freaking Braves. Maybe they should work on getting an offense and a bullpen.

Nats- wow- 10 games under .500 now. How long for Martinez?

I don't know how he manages to keep his job. They're one of the worst teams in baseball.

(05-21-2019 10:14 AM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]4-1 Braves over Giants. Acuna, Jr. hit two home runs, went 3-4 with 2RBIs giving him 11HR and 31 RBIs on the still-young season. Please leave him at leadoff.
Austin Riley hit a dinger for his 3rd HR in just 5 games. Move him up in lineup to cleanup behind Freeman , then Markakis, then Donaldson. I think Swanson hits better from the next spot than he does in 2nd hole. Ender Incirte's going to have a problem when he comes off IR. Hey, d-backs, want him back? Who ya got to trade? (bullpen help preferred.)

Edit: BTW: Soroka carried a perfect game into the sixth inning, Now 5-1 1.01 ERA. Hope he can stay healthy.

Sean Newcomb, a starter last season, picks up his first save. Will Braves change their mind about Kimbrel after June 3? Looks like they are righting the ship, but will need some reinforcements to have a shot at Philly, Chicago and LA. The Braves are again a fun team to watch. Too bad we don't have them on TBS anymore. America's Team would be great to have again!

I miss the old setup with TBS. Fortunately, I'm in the Braves regional broadcast market.

The youth are pretty much carrying this team right now, and if we had a bullpen we'd be dangerous. I wouldn't be against paying for Kimbrel, but it will probably take him a month to iron out the kinks.

(05-22-2019 09:29 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote: [ -> ]Forget being a top 10 player, is Harper even a good player?
2018: 134 OPS+/1.3 bWAR
2019: 115 OPS+/0.7 bWAR

Overall, he's had a very strange career.

Had a good throw the other day. And a big HR. He'll still do that periodically.

The guy leveraged one big WAR season and really great hair into a $330MM contract. The boos in Philly are still pretty good-natured but they're going to get real if he can't figure a way to get more productive.

Man, the Nats are totally screwing with my draft pick. I don't get how a team with Eaton, Robles, Turner, Soto, Rendon, Suzuki, scherzer, Strasburg and Corbin can be 19-30 and essentially eliminated before June. That top 5 pick is supposed to be mine. Leave it alone

lol.

of course the Nats will fire Dave Martinez and get better.... What a mistake Rizzo made again not resigning a veteran manager(Davey Johnson, Dusty Baker) and going with a young piece of trash who totally screwed everything up. The Lerners need to fire not only Martinez, but Rizzo's sorry ass as well....

I know it drives some people nuts, and last night was certainly frustrating as a Dodgers fan, but it's pretty damned impressive how the Rays can just keep trotting guys out from the bullpen, and every one of them has a good-to-great ERA. You keep thinking, alright, the NEXT guy we'll be able to hit, but here comes another dude I've never heard of who continues to shut things down. They've got all of 3 guys with ERA over 3.46, and one of them is Font, at 5.79 but a very respectable 3.44 FIP. The other two guys represent all of 24 IP this season.

Is this sustainable?

Y'all may have seen this already, but just in case you missed it...

(NOTE: With sound on this is NSFW)

That is how more lefty hitters should do it. HItters are so absorbed by power, they don’t know how to hit to all fields.


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(05-22-2019 11:32 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-22-2019 10:36 AM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-22-2019 08:06 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote: [ -> ]Freaking Braves. Maybe they should work on getting an offense and a bullpen.

Nats- wow- 10 games under .500 now. How long for Martinez?

I don't know how he manages to keep his job. They're one of the worst teams in baseball.

Maybe he has political connections in Congress...we could say the same about a lot of them as well. Okay, back to baseball.

(05-22-2019 02:59 PM)AllTideUp Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-21-2019 10:14 AM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]4-1 Braves over Giants. Acuna, Jr. hit two home runs, went 3-4 with 2RBIs giving him 11HR and 31 RBIs on the still-young season. Please leave him at leadoff.
Austin Riley hit a dinger for his 3rd HR in just 5 games. Move him up in lineup to cleanup behind Freeman , then Markakis, then Donaldson. I think Swanson hits better from the next spot than he does in 2nd hole. Ender Incirte's going to have a problem when he comes off IR. Hey, d-backs, want him back? Who ya got to trade? (bullpen help preferred.)

Edit: BTW: Soroka carried a perfect game into the sixth inning, Now 5-1 1.01 ERA. Hope he can stay healthy.

Sean Newcomb, a starter last season, picks up his first save. Will Braves change their mind about Kimbrel after June 3? Looks like they are righting the ship, but will need some reinforcements to have a shot at Philly, Chicago and LA. The Braves are again a fun team to watch. Too bad we don't have them on TBS anymore. America's Team would be great to have again!

I miss the old setup with TBS. Fortunately, I'm in the Braves regional broadcast market.

The youth are pretty much carrying this team right now, and if we had a bullpen we'd be dangerous. I wouldn't be against paying for Kimbrel, but it will probably take him a month to iron out the kinks.

Riley last night...me likey Riley:

Swarzak's line so far: (that's 2Ks)

A. Swarzak 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15-10 0.00ERA

They hated him in Seattle, if he could give us just a little here it would be huge. Fingers crossed.

Fried now 7-2 after last night. need a few more rookies to come up and pitch well. Gettin' there.

Braves and Gints knotted up at 4 apiece in top 12th... Riley with yet another Homer (his 5th) and 2 more RBIs (11). This is only game 9 for his career. Nice start kiddo.

Edit; Riley singles in Swanson fro first, 5-4 Braves, 13RBIs in 9 games for Riley. Not bad. Hold onto this one (don't worry, Swoosh, no Braves lead is safe so far this year.)

(05-23-2019 12:13 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]lol.

of course the Nats will fire Dave Martinez and get better.... What a mistake Rizzo made again not resigning a veteran manager(Davey Johnson, Dusty Baker) and going with a young piece of trash who totally screwed everything up. The Lerners need to fire not only Martinez, but Rizzo's sorry ass as well....

Metz beat the Nots 6-4 today. The Nots now have as many losses (31) as the Marlins do. Let that sink in.

well that's one way to not let the bullpen screw you.... have your starter throw a CG shutout. Corbin with it today.... What's great about it for the Nats and made it so easy to decide to do it is that he's got an extra day before his next start on Friday.

These next few weeks huge for the Nats. Schedule outside the Braves is pretty easy. Only 17 of 39 vs winning teams from now thru the all star break- with of those 17- 4 vs Arizona(1 game over) and 4 with the Padres. Really only the 5 vs Braves and 4 with Phillies really tough games before the all star break.

(05-25-2019 05:55 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]well that's one way to not let the bullpen screw you.... have your starter throw a CG shutout. Corbin with it today.... What's great about it for the Nats and made it so easy to decide to do it is that he's got an extra day before his next start on Friday.

These next few weeks huge for the Nats. Schedule outside the Braves is pretty easy. Only 17 of 39 vs winning teams from now thru the all star break- with of those 17- 4 vs Arizona(1 game over) and 4 with the Padres. Really only the 5 vs Braves and 4 with Phillies really tough games before the all star break.

Just checking on how much impact the Marlins have had on the NL East race so far.

Versus le Marlíns:

Washington Nots: 4-2
Fri, Apr 19 @ Miami L 3-2
Sat, Apr 20 @ Miami L 9-3
Sun, Apr 21 @ Miami W 5-0
Fri, May 24 vs Miami W 12-10
Sat, May 25 vs Miami W 5-0
Sun, May 26 vs Miami W 9-6
Mon, May 27 vs Miami 1:00 PM

Philly Phillies: 5-2
Fri, Apr 12 @ Miami W 9-1
Sat, Apr 13 @ Miami L 10-3
Sun, Apr 14 @ Miami W 3-1 F/14
Thu, Apr 25 vs Miami L 3-1 F/10
Fri, Apr 26 vs Miami W 4-0
Sat, Apr 27 vs Miami W 12-9
Sun, Apr 28 vs Miami W 5-1

New Metz: 5-3
Mon, Apr 1 @ Miami W 7-3
Tue, Apr 2 @ Miami W 6-5
Wed, Apr 3 @ Miami W 6-4
Fri, May 10 vs Miami W 11-2
Sat, May 11 vs Miami W 4-1
Sun, May 12 vs Miami ppd
Fri, May 17 @ Miami L 8-6
Sat, May 18 @ Miami L 2-0
Sun, May 19 @Miami L 3-0

Home of tha Braves: 5-1
Fri, Apr 5 vs Miami W 4-0
Sat, Apr 6 vs Miami L 4-2
Sun, Apr 7 vs Miami W 4-3
Fri, May 3 @Miami W 7-2
Sat, May 4 @Miami W 9-2
Sun, May 5 @Miami W 3-1 F/10


Looks like not too much so far.

We haven't played you guys yet, but that's about to change--a quick 2-game series:

Tue, May 28 Wash @Atlanta 7:20 PM Strasburg vs Fried
Wed, May 29 Wash @Atlanta 7:20 PM McGowin vs Gausman

you know it's amazing. I'm replaying with a baseball computer game the 2018 season... Dodgers have started off 25-16. It's amazing if that happened, do they even go out and get Machado in July? It's remarkable how different things could be with that.....

(05-26-2019 11:48 AM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]you know it's amazing. I'm replaying with a baseball computer game the 2018 season... Dodgers have started off 25-16. It's amazing if that happened, do they even go out and get Machado in July? It's remarkable how different things could be with that.....

Just out of curiosity, what are the standings?


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Haven't had much news on Braves' Ronald Acuna, Jr. lately. Why? Too many other young phenoms on Braves doing even more impressive stuff:


He's from Calgary, eh.

Quote:Mike Soroka allowed one earned run in six innings Saturday night. His ERA went up.

That pretty much defines how dominant the Braves rookie has been.

He has allowed one earned run or fewer in each of his first eight starts this season, becoming just the third MLB pitcher since 1920 to begin a season with such a streak. Dating to last year, Soroka has allowed one earned run or none in 11 of 13 starts, making him the only pitcher since 1913 (when earned runs became an official statistic) to open a major-league career that way.

Soroka’s ERA inched up from 1.01 to 1.07 with Saturday’s performance against the Cardinals. According to research by the Elias Sports Bureau, it is the third lowest ERA in a 21-year-old-or-under pitcher’s first eight starts of a season, bettered only by Fernando Valenzuela’s 0.50 with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1981 and Vida Blue’s 1.02 with the Oakland Athletics in 1971.

Braves/Cards is the late game tonight.

Not sure how much more rope the Dodgers should give to Joe Kelly. They've got a decent lead in the division but it's the end of May, he's appeared in 18 games, and his ERA is nearly 9. I know they want him to figure things out but he can't even manage his way through low leverage situations.