5/6/15 Phillies at Braves 7:10 PM GDT

[Braves1976]

(1) I would guess that Fredi wanted to keep Peterson's "feet under him" and ease him in rather than put him in a sink-or-swim situation that would erode his confidence. Remember the old Yogi Berra quote, "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." Early on, Peterson was K-ing quite a bit and I think Fredi wanted to put him in situations where he could be successful. If Fredi has done one thing right this year, I think it's that he's trying to match guys to situations that play to their strengths. There have been some obvious deviations from that strategy on Fredi's part, but I think he's handled Peterson fairly well. Now he has to simply put Maybin in the line-up every day.

(2) I think La Stella's defense is what put him in Fredi's doghouse. I don't know that for fact obviously and perhaps La Stella's defensive shortcomings were more perceived than real, but as long as Peterson continues to catch the ball, he's not going to be on a playing time yo-yo.

I saw the same as what I saw happening with La Stella with the main difference being Peterson started hitting and hasn't stopped yet. And if you mean sitting him vs lefties and pulling him late vs them a few times. I'd argue that only made it tougher when he finally started leaving him in vs them. Further, I also don't believe La Stella's defense put him in Fredi's doghouse since his issues on defense came early on and the timing of his benching and comments by Fredi also were related to how he was hitting. If you check you'll see he got benched when slumping at the plate.

Fredi said Peterson would have to "earn it" if was to play regularly so I guess he earning it right now.

[The Chosen One]

Jurenovich just said on pregame that Fredi said Maybin would be the primary CF (noted he said primary not starting)
Guess that means Maybin will get 3 out of 5 starts compared to EY.

[Enscheff]

Phillies
Braves

1. Nick Markakis (L) RF
2. Andrelton Simmons (R) SS
3. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
4. Kelly Johnson (L) LF
5. Alberto Callaspo (S) 3B
6. Christian Bethancourt (R) C
7. Jace Peterson (L) 2B
8. Cameron Maybin (R) CF
9. Mike Foltynewicz (R)

Drop Peraza and JUp in there next season (with KJ, Gomes and AJP on the bench), and suddenly you have a pretty good little ball club...

[The Chosen One]

All we need is Wood to rise up and pitch to know how he's capable.

[thewupk]

All we need is Wood to rise up and pitch to know how he's capable.

He needs more cowbell

[Julio3000]

Good start for Folty.

[dak]

That's easily the best inning I've ever seen Foltynewicz pitch.

[The Chosen One]

Phillies will be feeling a little Folty after tonight.

[thewupk]

First time watching Folty. Kid seems to have good stuff.

[Julio3000]

Economical with pitches. One weak gb and two Ks.

[Braves1976]

Good start for Folty.

Yea, but a lot of those pitches they chased were outside. Philly has a terrible line-up without Utley, so hopefully they'll chase all night long. Actually, they're pretty terrible with Utley to be honest but worse without him.

[Braves1976]

If this was Colorado Markakis might've just hit his first homer there. :)

[The Chosen One]

TRON

[thewupk]

"Hit pretty well to left"

Yeah Chip that was hit pretty far for Nick

[Braves1976]

Simmons showed Markakis how you do it, good start.

[Julio3000]

Not Not boom boom

[thewupk]

Andrelton continues to impress

[dak]

Foltynewicz's curve looks a ton better than in the Reds game so far.

[Dalyn]

If this is the new Simmons, and it's thanks to Seitzer, dude earned his pay already.

[Julio3000]

If this is the new Simmons, and it's thanks to Seitzer, dude earned his pay already.

.280 with some walks and pop will do quite nicely.