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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt View Post
    Yup. Love all these solo homers. Clearly he wouldn’t hit them in any other spot in the lineup
    I mean it's possible he gets more fastballs batting leadoff. But, I do agree he needs to hit lower in the lineup.

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    Has anyone heard anything on Gohora?? I know O’day is throwing now...finally.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBravos View Post
    Has anyone heard anything on Gohora?? I know O’day is throwing now...finally.
    Last I heard was he was throwing in extended ST but that was a month ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    Last I heard was he was throwing in extended ST but that was a month ago.
    So strange. He lost all that weight and I really thought he would come in and kill it this year. I guess it’s shoulder problems right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt View Post
    Yup. Love all these solo homers. Clearly he wouldn’t hit them in any other spot in the lineup
    It's truly head scratching why folks think it's great for Acuna to be hitting a bunch of solo HRs.

    It's also head scratching that folks forget Acuna had an insanely good stretch batting 4th early in the year. Did he love the 4 spot early, hated it after a few weeks, and now loves the 1 spot?

    Never underestimate how stupid folks can make the narrative...that's the lesson I've learned watching baseball over the years.

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    The problem is he is now going to get credit for us winning. There is no way twit will take him out of that spot. The problem is Acuna hitting leadoff shouldn’t help our pitchers all pitching better the last two weeks which is the real reason we are winning.

    The offense is still good. Riley is helium inflated juice we needed. But anyone who thinks we would be scoring less with Acuna hitting more with guys on is crazy. It is proven that the leadoff spot sees the fewest at bats with runners on. Yet we want our best hitter hitting there. Again crazy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt View Post
    The problem is he is now going to get credit for us winning. There is no way twit will take him out of that spot. The problem is Acuna hitting leadoff shouldn’t help our pitchers all pitching better the last two weeks which is the real reason we are winning.

    The offense is still good. Riley is helium inflated juice we needed. But anyone who thinks we would be scoring less with Acuna hitting more with guys on is crazy. It is proven that the leadoff spot sees the fewest at bats with runners on. Yet we want our best hitter hitting there. Again crazy.
    Yup. The offense with Acuna batting lead off was scoring fewer runs than before he moved to the top of the lineup. Facts don't convince folks who want to see a cool narrative though.

    The lineup took off the last few days when the Braves added Riley's 1.500 OPS to the middle of the lineup...imagine that! Almost like adding the hottest hitter on the planet for a week will boost the offense...weird!

    Everyone knows the correct answer is Markakis in the lead off spot (at least vs RHH), but it will take another stretch of struggle for the dinosaurs to justify making a move. Swanson doesn't belong in the 2 hole, so that's another bit of headwind going against the offense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    Yup. The offense with Acuna batting lead off was scoring fewer runs than before he moved to the top of the lineup. Facts don't convince folks who want to see a cool narrative though.

    The lineup took off the last few days when the Braves added Riley's 1.500 OPS to the middle of the lineup...imagine that! Almost like adding the hottest hitter on the planet for a week will boost the offense...weird!

    Everyone knows the correct answer is Markakis in the lead off spot (at least vs RHH), but it will take another stretch of struggle for the dinosaurs to justify making a move. Swanson doesn't belong in the 2 hole, so that's another bit of headwind going against the offense.
    Acuna out of leadoff would fix Swanson because Acuna or JD would naturally slot at 2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freshmaker View Post
    Was that a slider. Jeez that broke down with little horizontal movement. Almost looked like a harder curve.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freshmaker View Post
    Buzz!!!
    "I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."

    "I am your retribution."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freshmaker View Post

    I knew Soroka was going to be good. But even this is more than I thought.

    I remember watching him in Rome and Mississippi. He was different from the others. He never walked anyone and always pitched to weak contact. I called him the best of the bunch back when Rome won it all. Him and Weigel always stood out to me for some reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freshmaker View Post
    Man that 2012 Medlen was a joy to watch

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orphan Black View Post
    Man that 2012 Medlen was a joy to watch
    Yeah he was, wasn’t he? What a run he had. Such a shame he got injured

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt View Post
    I knew Soroka was going to be good. But even this is more than I thought.

    I remember watching him in Rome and Mississippi. He was different from the others. He never walked anyone and always pitched to weak contact. I called him the best of the bunch back when Rome won it all. Him and Weigel always stood out to me for some reason.
    Yeah this is getting a bit ridiculous how good he’s been. With a few more innings he’ll be the MLB ERA leader by quite a bit

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    I got this off reddit. I dont know how to link twitter so here is the addey

    https://mobile.twitter.com/PitchingN...060070400?s=19



    That is ****ing insane and why he is so good. How does a hitter know what to do.

    Someone can link it if they want.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freshmaker View Post
    That Medlen run was so incredible. He was such a joy to watch pitch when he was on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt View Post
    I got this off reddit. I dont know how to link twitter so here is the addey

    https://mobile.twitter.com/PitchingN...060070400?s=19



    That is ****ing insane and why he is so good. How does a hitter know what to do.

    Someone can link it if they want.
    Yeah. Soroka's tunneling of pitches is good. It's another factor, like control, that if better than average can make someones stuff play up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freshmaker View Post
    Everyone is going to hate hearing this, but Soroka's BABIP against is .203, his HR/FB rate is 3.8%, and his LOB% is 87.2%. Needless to say, those numbers are insanely unsustainable.

    His xFIP of 3.69 and his xwOBA of .272 are more in line with what we should expect moving forward. He certainly seems like a guy who could outperform his xFIP by ~0.5 runs, but it's silly to think he will outperform it by 2-3 runs.

    That's the legit #2/#3 SP we all expected him to be, and when he's going good folks will argue over semantics that he is a "TOR SP". We've seen Fried regress, and we will see Soroka regress as well.
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