8/2/2015: SUNDAY BRAVES THREAD ... Phillies seek 4-game sweep on endless road trip

[thethe]

Freeman being out hurt. And losing Grili really didnt' have much of an impact. JJ was still good and losing our closer didn't cause us to stop scoring runs.

You still fail to acknowledge that the only reason we were 'good' was because of unexpected starts to the season from several hitters. And most of them have regressed to the mean and we are garbage again.

You built up the fact that making contact would score more runs. Well guess what? It hasn't.

Contact was scoring plenty of runs when our best hitter was in the lineup. The aggregate season numbers don't account for that at all.

How was Grilli not a big loss? It just weakened our bullpen tremendously. The point I was responded to wasn't just about the offense. It was about the team as a whole. When Grilli was healthy and Viz came up our pen was looking damn good. I still believe we would have been around 500 all year if Grilli/Freeman were healthy and the trades weren't made. Now, the way the team is going is probably better for the future but I would have rather won more games.

[thewupk]

Contact was scoring plenty of runs when our best hitter was in the lineup. The aggregate season numbers don't account for that at all.

How was Grilli not a big loss? It just weakened our bullpen tremendously. The point I was responded to wasn't just about the offense. It was about the team as a whole. When Grilli was healthy and Viz came up our pen was looking damn good. I still believe we would have been around 500 all year if Grilli/Freeman were healthy and the trades weren't made. Now, the way the team is going is probably better for the future but I would have rather won more games.

I don't know if you have noticed this or not but scoring runs has been the teams biggest issue for awhile now. Grili did not help that problem one bit.

And why isn't contact working after Freeman went out? The Braves still ahve the lowest K% in the league. If all you need to do is put the ball in play then we should have kept on scoring regardless. Unless Freeman made other players magically get hits.

[Heyward]

I don't know if you have noticed this or not but scoring runs has been the teams biggest issue for awhile now. Grili did not help that problem one bit.

And why isn't contact working after Freeman went out? The Braves still ahve the lowest K% in the league. If all you need to do is put the ball in play then we should have kept on scoring regardless. Unless Freeman made other players magically get hits.

Replacing Freeman, KJ, and Uribe with Gomes/Perez, CJ and Garcia is a pretty bad downgrade but continue to stay bitter.

[thewupk]

Replacing Freeman, KJ, and Uribe with Gomes/Perez, CJ and Garcia is a pretty bad downgrade but continue to stay bitter.

Braves are still putting the ball in the play. Why aren't we scoring more runs?

[thethe]

Braves are still putting the ball in the play. Why aren't we scoring more runs?

This is a straw man. THe premise was always having good hitters that put the ball in play. Not a lineup littered with Quad A guys.

[jpx7]

What's this "W" listed next to the team's name on the boxscore? Is it bad?

[nsacpi]

What's this "W" listed next to the team's name on the boxscore? Is it bad?

Some sort of typo

[bravesnumberone]

What's this "W" listed next to the team's name on the boxscore? Is it bad?

[Dalyn]

What's this "W" listed next to the team's name on the boxscore? Is it bad?

I think it's some dig toward Wren.