Chopping With The Braves And Rolling With The Tide
buck75 (05-09-2023), Garmel (05-09-2023), UNCBlue012 (05-10-2023)
I'm watching this game on delay and the first thing I noted is that A) it's on TBS, and B) Bob Costas is calling it. How surreal is that?
Costas calling a game and TBS ! Surreal indeed.
Tomorrow Boston is trotting out a BUM of a pitcher with a horrendous whip and ERA- we outta be able to score the ten runs we will probably need given that Shuster is taking the hill.
Now watch it be a 1-0 snooze fest.
Bullpen game tomorrow. Luckily, Shuster will stay at Gwinnett where he belongs.
Hope they start Jesse and let him go as long as he can. If he isn’t inheriting any runners he’s damn good. He could probably go three innings and then let tonk go three and we are set.
Murphy up to a cool 2.4 fWAR after last nights game.
Acuna at 2.0 fWAR good for 4th place.
Get off my lawn!
looking at fWar and comparing players that have been replaced since our WS title, it looks like AA has made the right call in every case.
Arcia is clearly trailing Swanson (1.5 to .8) but Swanson has played in 20 more games
Olson is out pacing FF right now. 1.3 to .9
Murph crushing WC 2.4 to .9
fun fact. Orlando is .1 fWar ahead of T. Turner with more than 100 fewer plate appearances. I thought that was the best signing of the off season. Thought TT would be great for most of that contract and he very well might... but early returns are not looking great.
Coppy
Yeah i didnt like that at the time, but Charlie's been fantastic so far. Ton of movement on his breaking pitches, and good velocity on the fastball. Also, that Arcia extension is looking genius right now. 3 years/7ish mil WITH a club option is insane value for what Arcia does for us.
I said at the time last year, i still think we made the right move with FF/Olson. He was playing the long game, Olson isnt even 30 yet, while Freddie turns 34 i think this year. Freddie hasnt been bad, but 1B just dont age well in their mid 30's. Which does cause some concern once Olson gets deep into his contract but thats a story for another time.
Murphy's just been absolutely insane. Not sure he'll keep hitting like this but giving we didnt give up anyone like franchise level good, that was just an incredible deal. Also smart to extend him on that deal.
Correa is having an awful start too. Kind of wish the Mets signed him now.