GDT: Red Sox @ Braves 9/5

[bravesfanforlife88]

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

[msstate7]

Hopefully markakis gets a day off this week too

[bravesfanMatt]

Stupid. 100 games against **** opposition and we rest FF against Boston. And this one game isn’t enough and way too late.

[GeorgiaGirl]

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.

[thewupk]

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

[Hulavol]

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...

[Tapate50]

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.

[UNCBlue012]

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

[thewupk]

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

[msstate7]

Supposedly, Boston is actually sitting their stars today.

So their big advantage just dropped to a little advantage

[Southcack77]

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

[Hulavol]

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

[Enscheff]

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

Player rest is likely the next big advance in analytics as it will allow players to avoid injury and play more closely to peak more often.

But no, a single game off isn't a big deal. Like everything else in baseball, it's a small advantage that needs to be taken consistently to provide measurable value over the course of many games.

[UNCBlue012]

Terrific start for Folty.

[Hulavol]

Folty looking good so far! (Hula knocks on wood)

[Hulavol]

Acuna BOMB!!

[msstate7]

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.

[bravesfanMatt]

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.

[Hulavol]

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.

[Diesel]

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'.