GDT 7/1/22: Braves @ Reds - The All-Star Returns

[Slippyjms]

Acuña DH
Swanson SS
Olson 1B
Riley 3B
d’Arnaud C
Ozuna LF
Duvall RF
Arcia 2B
Harris ll CF

Fried P

[Russ2dollas]

Acuña DH
Swanson SS
Olson 1B
Riley 3B
d’Arnaud C
Ozuna LF
Duvall RF
Arcia 2B
Harris ll CF

Fried P

if Ozuna has to play LF can we just have him hug the line to prevent his sliding catch disasters? Mr. Harris can cover 1/3 of LF.

[thewupk]

The all-star returns

[Hulavol]

There have been a couple of Ian Anderson level gamethreads around here lately1 glad to see Slippy the all star back on duty!

[Hulavol]

71% of the Earth is covered by water. MH2 has the rest.

[zbhargrove]

Great double play!

[WaitingFor2017]

Chip was mentioning All-Star starters earlier. As of now, it should be Alcantara followed by Fried.

[thewupk]

From 3-0 to a strikeout is lame as ****

[thewupk]

lol Minor just blowing it by the heart of our order

[msstate7]

Braves, don't blow this game... doing that is how you lose to a team like this

[UNCBlue012]

Am I ready Max’s fastball velocity correct? He’s sitting like 92 this inning

[thewupk]

fried sucks now

[msstate7]

Maybe I just notice it when the shift gets beat, but it seems like teams are making a concerted effort to beat our shifts, and they're doing a good job

[UNCBlue012]

You’ve got to be ****ty me that he allowed the damn Reds to get a run off of him

[Garmel]

Maybe I just notice it when the shift gets beat, but it seems like teams are making a concerted effort to beat our shifts, and they're doing a good job

Especially with 2 strikes.

[jsebe10]

fried sucks now

He’s just missing his location tonighy.

[msstate7]

Braves, come on... minor's era and FIP were almost 8 entering this game

[jsebe10]

Minor is “change up” ing our ass to death

[msstate7]

This is not one of the braves best performances

[msstate7]

Olson has saw back-to-back 3-0 counts, and he hasn't reached

[msstate7]

Nice play

[msstate7]

Hard to be mad when you winning, but this is a garbage performance by the bats

[bravesfanforlife88]

Of course Mike minor would shut us down with his 7.5 ERA

[CyYoung31]

Jesus.

[msstate7]

Of course Mike minor would shut us down with his 7.5 ERA

His FIP was even higher

[msstate7]

Mets up 4-1 now

[drewdat]

ERA = how many inning it will take our offense to score a run against them

[msstate7]

Braves look like they about to go on a bad stretch of baseball

[CyYoung31]

Arcia, Duvall, and Ozuna are automatic outs. This can’t happen.

[msstate7]

Good job, Harris

[msstate7]

Man, wanted that run. Come on dansby

[drewdat]

Must have gotten a bad jump?

[TURBO]

Getting paid

[chop2chip]

That’s my elite SS

[msstate7]

Dansby is something else. I'm warming to the idea of extending

[UNCBlue012]

Y’all said Swanson was slumping lmao

[msstate7]

Olson, let's not go into another month long slump. Stay hot

[buck75]

I thought Dans’ ball was gonna stop at the track. Someone slip one of last year’s baseballs in for Dans?

[msstate7]

Rosario 0-3, 3 k
Gross

[TURBO]

Ozuna should be out of game at this point

[msstate7]

Atta boy, duvall

[Garmel]

I love this Reds bullpen.

[Garmel]

Duvall has looked good against the righties the last few games.

[chop2chip]

The ol’ 4th time through the order

[msstate7]

Guess you just gotta give minor credit.

[msstate7]

Stephens and DOD?

[Garmel]

Stephens and DOD?

That'll work.

[CyYoung31]

McHugh in a low-leverage inning.

[msstate7]

That'll work.

Guess mchugh was hot.

[Garmel]

Guess mchugh was hot.

Yeah, he was warming up when the score was 5-1.

[CyYoung31]

Hit him before he hits us.

[jsebe10]

Votto better swallow that pride at the end of the season and retire….He is damn sure useless as a trade chip right now too…At best he may get traded to the Yanks or dodgers for depth off the bench in a post season run.

[msstate7]

Votto better swallow that pride at the end of the season and retire….He is damn sure useless as a trade chip right now too…At best he may get traded to the Yanks or dodgers for depth off the bench in a post season run.

He has 45,000,000 reasons to play 2 more seasons

[TURBO]

109 off the bat. Unlucky

[WaitingFor2017]

The Reds are really playing in down 7 runs in the 9th?

[WaitingFor2017]

Do the umpires ever check the hand of the last pitcher of the game? I never see it. I only see the celebration with the umpires running off the field.

[msstate7]

Damn Harris

[TURBO]

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[CrimsonCowboy]

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[CyYoung31]

Almost got back all of those runs back from yesterday.

[buck75]

My macho closer

[Slippyjms]

15-9

[VirginiaBrave]

Fried is worthy of the legacy of Smoltz, Maddux, and Glavine.

[Hulavol]

Quality win right there fellas. Harris continues to impress as does Biggio in the Dansby costume.
Love our new low leverage pitcher too. These are the teams that good teams are supposed to carve up, and we brought out a nice array of cutlery. Looking forward to more bouncing Emmas and Ellies tomorrow!

[thewupk]

Fried should be #1 in fWAR in the NL when the stats update tomorrow

[thewupk]

Chip was mentioning All-Star starters earlier. As of now, it should be Alcantara followed by Fried.

It's debatable. Fried's FIP is a half run lower than Alcantara's. Also Snitker gets to make the decision on who gets to start the game. He needs to do the right thing and give it to Fried.

[Hudson2]

It's debatable. Fried's FIP is a half run lower than Alcantara's. Also Snitker gets to make the decision on who gets to start the game. He needs to do the right thing and give it to Fried.

Agreed. Choose your own guy in that situation but it’s not like he doesn’t deserve it.

[thethe]

Wish we could bring back the takes of the two padre trades....

[Tapate50]

Wish we could bring back the takes of the two padre trades....

Oof. They would be drastically different these days

[CyYoung31]

IIRC the issue with the second Padres trade was always about throwing BJ Upton in the deal to get out from under his contract. If we had just dealt Kimbrel on his own we could’ve gotten a lot more.

[bravesfanMatt]

IIRC the issue with the second Padres trade was always about throwing BJ Upton in the deal to get out from under his contract. If we had just dealt Kimbrel on his own we could’ve gotten a lot more.

This is correct. We were basically rebuilding so paying BJ through that period meant nothing but money. We should have kept him and made him play on a crappy team just for being a crappy, lazy player. Plus, we could have increased the return for Craig.

[The Chosen One]

This is correct. We were basically rebuilding so paying BJ through that period meant nothing but money. We should have kept him and made him play on a crappy team just for being a crappy, lazy player. Plus, we could have increased the return for Craig.

But then we couldnt afford Markakis

[thewupk]

Time for a Cy Young Watch for Fried

NL Ranks

fWAR: 1st
FIP: 2nd
ERA: 8th
Wins: 3rd


That being said. Knowing the voters I'd say Gonsolin is the front runner. Dude somehow is 10-0 with a league leading 1.54 ERA. He's living the Julio Teheran life with a 186 BABIP. lmao

[thewupk]

Swanson is now 4th in the NL in fWAR

[Enscheff]

IIRC the issue with the second Padres trade was always about throwing BJ Upton in the deal to get out from under his contract. If we had just dealt Kimbrel on his own we could’ve gotten a lot more.

Of course it was, but tehteh is only capable of clinging into whatever small part of a larger discussion that jives with whatever narrative is stuck in his head.

Nobody hated the Fried return, but some questioned how much value the Braves were pouring into arms. Considering how few panned out, it turns out the criticism was justified.

[Mad Dog Murph]

Time for a Cy Young Watch for Fried

NL Ranks

fWAR: 1st
FIP: 2nd
ERA: 8th
Wins: 3rd


That being said. Knowing the voters I'd say Gonsolin is the front runner. Dude somehow is 10-0 with a league leading 1.54 ERA. He's living the Julio Teheran life with a 186 BABIP. lmao

Lol. He’ll go 0-10 with. 5.41 in the 2nd half

[Russ2dollas]

Of course it was, but tehteh is only capable of clinging into whatever small part of a larger discussion that jives with whatever narrative is stuck in his head.

Nobody hated the Fried return, but some questioned how much value the Braves were pouring into arms. Considering how few panned out, it turns out the criticism was justified.

Was it justified? I admit I wanted us to focus on position guys based on the data of success. Not sure what position guys were offered. I know there were guys in the draft I wanted. Wright is the only first round pitcher I wanted.

That said they did manage to land 3b and ss for a multi division winner and ws champ. Did land cf in Harris. New group for Harris but still pitching focus.

C, 2b and rf from international.

Pitching fried, Anderson and wright. Folty was good for a while. Wentz and allard were useful trade chips. Minter. Luke Jackson. Mueller still has a shot to provide some value. They hit at a decent rate

Honestly it has to be a case study that would be taught on rebuilding if there was a degree in gm. Just avoid the getting banned from the sport part.

[Enscheff]

The Braves dealt away a lot of MLB talent, and any competent GM would be able to get roughly the same future value. We obviously don’t know what kind of positional talent may have been offered, so all we can do is assume they consciously targeted arms, which are objectively more risky assets.

The best part of the rebuild was the decision to start it before the team had nothing of value to trade. We’ve seen plenty of teams ride their core to the bitter end and turn a 2-3 year rebuild into one that lasts 5+ years…or worse.

[msstate7]

My God, Olson

[drewdat]

pull him