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    GDT: Red Sox @ Braves 9/5

    Business man special Noon game today.

    Freeman is out of the line up

    Acuna LF
    Inciarte CF
    Markakis RF
    Camargo 3B
    Duda 1B
    Albies 2B
    Flowers C
    Culberson SS
    Folty
    Get off my lawn!

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    Hopefully markakis gets a day off this week too

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    Stupid. 100 games against **** opposition and we rest FF against Boston. And this one game isn’t enough and way too late.
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    Supposedly, Boston is actually sitting their stars today. Must feel nice to be able to do it.

    So it doesn't really matter and I'd actually go further and say no Markakis today too. They've been absent anyway.
    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.

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    I'm actually fine with this. Duda had been hot before his acquisition and Freddie needs a day off. Markakis better be next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgiaGirl View Post
    Supposedly, Boston is actually sitting their stars today.
    So their big advantage just dropped to a little advantage

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    do y’all really think days off are that life changing?

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    I like this lineup, and hell yes FF needs a day off. Expecting the DUDE to go DEEP....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Southcack77 View Post
    do y’all really think days off are that life changing?
    The best team in mlb thinks they help. The Red Sox have played 140 games, and JD Martinez leads them with 132 games played. Markakis and FF have played every game for the braves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt View Post
    Stupid. 100 games against **** opposition and we rest FF against Boston. And this one game isn’t enough and way too late.

    As long as he's rested and ready for the playoffs then it's fine

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgiaGirl View Post
    Supposedly, Boston is actually sitting their stars today. Must feel nice to be able to do it.

    So it doesn't really matter and I'd actually go further and say no Markakis today too. They've been absent anyway.
    It felt really good in the 90's when we did this. It was called the Bobby Cox Sunday Special

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
    The best team in mlb thinks they help. The Red Sox have played 140 games, and JD Martinez leads them with 132 games played. Markakis and FF have played every game for the braves.
    This is my take. No reason to have two guys playing every game. They should have had 5 to 6 games off already. I sometimes hope we fail down the stretch just to insure twitner is fired. But I can’t pull against my team so just have to hold hope that AA makes the right call and finds him a position next to Bobby far enough away to do no more damage.
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    Man, I hated the Bobby Sunday Special. We had usually already won the series, and he would rest everybody. In hindsight, of course, it obviously worked. We usually had the division on ice by now, and the guys had tons of days off...

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    It felt really good in the 90's when we did this. It was called the Bobby Cox Sunday Special
    I didn't feel this way. I thought it was giving up because instead of resting 1 or 2 guys , it seemed like he gave everyone an off day at once.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt View Post
    This is my take. No reason to have two guys playing every game. They should have had 5 to 6 games off already. I sometimes hope we fail down the stretch just to insure twitner is fired. But I can’t pull against my team so just have to hold hope that AA makes the right call and finds him a position next to Bobby far enough away to do no more damage.
    I can understand a lot of folks' disagreements with Snitker, but you gotta admit what he has done with this team- a full year ahead of schedule has been pretty incredible. Sure, he makes a lot of decisions with the BP that fans may not understand, but most times those same fans don't have a clue as to what is going on any particular day (so and so could be sore, so and so could have a stomal issue, etc)....He is in possible striking distance of the best record in the NL with a lineup with serious holes in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hulavol View Post
    He is in possible striking distance of the best record in the NL with a lineup with serious holes in it.
    Keep piling on Freddie why don't you

    I kid. I kid... seriously though, FF needs to snap of it or this thing could go bad quick

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
    Keep piling on Freddie why don't you

    I kid. I kid... seriously though, FF needs to snap of it or this thing could go bad quick
    Yeah, I'm fine with sitting him today but the slump has to end. For us to stay atop the division and/or clinch a playoff berth, Freddie has to get at least semi-hot. Honestly, he and Acuna mashing is enough to keep us afloat, but Freddie is the key.

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
    Keep piling on Freddie why don't you

    I kid. I kid... seriously though, FF needs to snap of it or this thing could go bad quick
    That's funny- but no question there. We need Freddie back to form. At least we have Duda to drill some homers while he rests....

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    I'm not sure that all of Freddie's problems are fatigue problems, though days off can help with that mental fatigue for sure. Mechanics-wise, Freeman is struggling because he's having sequence issues in terms of his rotation. Upper body is too quick, making him appear to lunge and lose power. He's jumping at pitches and pushing his hands, which slows the bat down and makes you try to over compensate in other areas. Really affects barrel path as well. All hitters work to maintain good sequence where their lower half is on time and their hands can just be reactionary. It's easy to get out of whack and even when you know the issue, takes time get back in sequence to where you 'see ball, hit ball'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tapate50 View Post
    I didn't feel this way. I thought it was giving up because instead of resting 1 or 2 guys , it seemed like he gave everyone an off day at once.
    It seems like we won a lot more of those games than we should have. And obviously it worked out as far as keeping guys rested and winning a **** ton of games.

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