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    Snits lack of tactical game judgement with Weiss being his main input, has again borne the burden of a poor PS.

    They both need to go.

    Line up construction did little on a daily effort to utilize platoons and rest effectively. Don't want to talk about Snits BP use especially early in season. Over working relievers once again bit the Braves in the arse. Burning Freeman in 2018 did little to awaken him to proper use of the BP in 2019.
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    Quote Originally Posted by salmagundy View Post
    Snits lack of tactical game judgement with Weiss being his main input, has again borne the burden of a poor PS.

    They both need to go.

    Line up construction did little on a daily effort to utilize platoons and rest effectively. Don't want to talk about Snits BP use especially early in season. Over working relievers once again bit the Braves in the arse. Burning Freeman in 2018 did little to awaken him to proper use of the BP in 2019.
    What did overworking relievers have to do with the outcome?

    Not sure how you can say they didn’t platoon down the stretch - granted they started going against that with Duvall.

    To me, they had a team that lost a lot of depth to injury and had some disappointing regression in cheap players that cost them.

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    We learned that losing one of your key relievers before he throws a pitch on the mound during the divisional series is critical.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    We learned that losing one of your key relievers before he throws a pitch on the mound during the divisional series is critical.
    Not as critical as your 3-4-5 hitters deciding to not show up. They are the reason we aren't playing tonight. Bottom line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    Not as critical as your 3-4-5 hitters deciding to not show up. They are the reason we aren't playing tonight. Bottom line.
    We win game 1 with Martin. Hands down with the way he was pitching.

    I agree our middle of the order was trash and we would have lost to the Nats but the Cardinals were a horrid team and we should have swept them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    We win game 1 with Martin. Hands down with the way he was pitching.

    I agree our middle of the order was trash and we would have lost to the Nats but the Cardinals were a horrid team and we should have swept them.
    We also win game 1 if our 3-4-5 hitters decided to hit.

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    What I learned is I need to diversify my hobbies. I can’t keep putting my mental health into the hands of someone name Mike Foltynewicz

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    We win game 1 with Martin. Hands down with the way he was pitching.

    I agree our middle of the order was trash and we would have lost to the Nats but the Cardinals were a horrid team and we should have swept them.
    We win game 1 if Snit doesn’t allow Melancon to give up 4 runs in the 9th after blowing the save in the 8th

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    You know what sucks the most is that this is the first time during this playoff losing streak where I actually felt like we should have won the series. We blew it as opposed to just flat out getting outplayed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CyYoung31 View Post
    You know what sucks the most is that this is the first time during this playoff losing streak where I actually felt like we should have won the series. We blew it as opposed to just flat out getting outplayed.
    Yep. I felt we had a big advantage in terms of lineups and a small pitching advantage. We flat out blew it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CyYoung31 View Post
    You know what sucks the most is that this is the first time during this playoff losing streak where I actually felt like we should have won the series. We blew it as opposed to just flat out getting outplayed.
    IDK, I felt in 2002 we were better than the Giants. 2010 felt despite not having Chipper, Nitram, etc. that we were better than the Giants as well because of Bobby's last ride magic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Southcack77 View Post
    What did overworking relievers have to do with the outcome?

    Not sure how you can say they didn’t platoon down the stretch - granted they started going against that with Duvall.

    To me, they had a team that lost a lot of depth to injury and had some disappointing regression in cheap players that cost them.
    You obviously did not read "early in the season".

    Without going into great detail, take Luke stats. Reg season 3.81 with a slight increase during the Aug/Sept time frame. His Oct ERA jumped to 10.18.

    Maybe he was tipping his pitches, maybe the Cards were a better hitting team than Luke game them credit for being. I don't know what it was that caused his pitches to be not as sharp as normal, but arm weary certainly could have played a big part of his decline.

    Platooning really didn't start until the mid part of Sept so that didn't play out during the season. The # 3,4,5,6, and then 7 hitters going in the tank all at the same time in the PS leads to a big question. Don't tell me "curse" has something to do with that fact.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Chosen One View Post
    IDK, I felt in 2002 we were better than the Giants. 2010 felt despite not having Chipper, Nitram, etc. that we were better than the Giants as well because of Bobby's last ride magic.
    I’m not talking about the team, I’m talking about in terms of the series itself. We blew two games. In the past, our losses were generally lopsided affairs, except for elimination games. And we were always behind in the series. This year we were up 2-1.

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    I think what we have yet to learn is that despite signing two future superstars to extremely team friendly contracts (Albies 7 years for 35 million and Acuna 8 years for 100 million), will this team still be too CHEAP to spend money on other good players worthy of a first place team?

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    I would love to read this generational intellect’s thoughts on which current players the Braves should splurge on, and why they can afford it.

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