it's too bad we haven't drafted more low ceiling pitchers recently. we may actually have a good farm then.
it's too bad we haven't drafted more low ceiling pitchers recently. we may actually have a good farm then.
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
The only improvement the Braves made offensively at the deadline was to acquire a RHH corner OFer to platoon with Ender vs LHP.
That RHH platoon OFer has started 3 games since the deadline. One of those starts was vs a RHP, and he sat today vs a LHP.
Snit isn't using pieces in the way they were specifically acquired to be used. This is completely inexcusable if I'm the GM, and needs to be addressed immediately. There is no rationale for Duvall starting vs a RHP in place of Acuna and sitting vs a LHP in favor of Ender. It is pure and utter stupidity that can't be allowed to continue happening.
Winning baseball games is about adding up a bunch of small advantages over the course of a long season. Snit must become better at using those advantages consistently so they can start adding up to more wins, or he needs to go.
Last edited by Enscheff; 08-09-2018 at 02:59 PM.
auyushu (08-09-2018), UNCBlue012 (08-09-2018), WaitingFor2017 (08-09-2018)
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
We played fu cking scrub pitchers in a series we need?
WTF
WTF
WTF
Allard and 2 jabronis who has no business pitching at this level, hell they would get knocked around by high schoolers and guess what, two of our losses.
Fu ck Snitker and AA. They are fu cking pathetic.
Lol dude .. you think using every asset we had to acquire starting pitching was the right strategy?
They are falling like flies. We had to trade for a controllable starting pitcher
Maybe we can be like the Mets instead of the Astros, Cubs, and Red Sox.
Nah, let's follow the Mets blueprint
Why the fu ck is Allard still on this team and not traded? He is a Glavine wanna be and that schit ain't happening in 2018.
Who the fu ck is Parson, guy from Winter Wonderland and McCreery, the guy that won or 2nd place in American Idol like 8 years ago?
We had a meaningful series and we let these three jabronis pitch to our losses, WTF is the problem with our management, seriously, wtf?
I'm as frustrated as anyone, I mean we could have taken the division lead today, but people's anger is hilarious.
In retrospect, probably shouldn't have burnt up all your middle relief and thrown Brach yesterday. Could've tried to go Biddle for 3 (this isn't ideal though, if you do and are going to be smart, you lose arguably your best/most clutch reliever of the year until Sunday after that), Venters for 1, Brach for 2, and then had Minter close if all broke well.
But who knows if it does? That's what the problem is when you have two games you lose starting pitchers to line drives.
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
I would let Snit go at the end of the season and let him take another role. He’s just not a manager that needs to be managinging a contending team.
Parsons was not bad. I would like to see more.
McCreery was nothing special and probably won’t be back up...ever.
Coppy
With the caveat that much of the manager’s job happens beyond 7-10 PM, I have been pretty disheartened by Snit’s bench and bullpen usage. I wish AA has shored up the bench a little more, but he held up his end with some badly-needed bullpen upgrades, but Snit really still seems to have a hard time putting the pieces in the right places.