GDT 9/22/24: Braves @ Marlins - Holmes before we go home

VirginiaBrave said:
I just know the guy led a team that didn't have its full arsenal all year and will probably end up within a game of the playoffs if they win the last two series. That does not deserve dismissal. Strider, Acuna, Murphy, Harris, Riley, and Albies all down to significant injury and there is no way he is blamed. I may as well add your boy Olson to that list seeing as how he was MIA as far as production for most of the season. This may be Snitker's best job of making chicken salad out of chicken s---.
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This is perhaps the best example of misplaced credit I've ever seen on a baseball related topic.

Unfortunately, the narrative surrounding Snit will be created by folks with similarly faulty logical deductive skills, and Snit isn't going anywhere. I imagine we are stuck watching him bumble through game scenarios for 1 more season. All we can do is hope AA brings in a more modern mind for 2026 and beyond, at which point the team will be on the downslope and the new manager will be blamed for worse overall performance.
 
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Enscheff said:
This is perhaps the best example of misplaced credit I've ever seen on a baseball related topic.

Unfortunately, the narrative surrounding Snit will be created by folks with similarly faulty logical deductive skills, and Snit isn't going anywhere. I imagine we are stuck watching him bumble through game scenarios for 1 more season. All we can do is hope AA brings in a more modern mind for 2026 and beyond, at which point the team will be on the downslope and the new manager will be blamed for worse overall performance.
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It's definitely time for a change. We've had Cox or a Cox disciple at the helm since 1991
 
VirginiaBrave said:
I just know the guy led a team that didn't have its full arsenal all year and will probably end up within a game of the playoffs if they win the last two series. That does not deserve dismissal. Strider, Acuna, Murphy, Harris, Riley, and Albies all down to significant injury and there is no way he is blamed. I may as well add your boy Olson to that list seeing as how he was MIA as far as production for most of the season. This may be Snitker's best job of making chicken salad out of chicken s---.
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So you’re contradicting yourself bc you said that the players are to blame if we miss the playoffs and not Snit yet now you’re saying if we make the playoffs then Snit should get the credit bc of injuries. So which is it?
 
Even with the injury bug, we've still had a better roster than most of the league. And AA has plugged in holes about as well as you could without trading every asset. In that sense they should have more wins than they do.

When the team was mostly healthy the last two seasons, the offense carried Snitker and made him look like a genius because he didn't actually have to manage, and even then he mismanaged the bullpen many times. The DH being added to the NL really masked how bad of a tactical manager he is, and now that the injury bug has forced him to try and be creative, he's still doing dumb things like putting Ozzie in the 2-hole when OZ has been out for a long time and continues to kill rallies.

The margins are slimmer, and we have a manager who just expects the healthy guys we still have to carry the offense past his inept decision making. When Soler and Olson are hitting 2/3-run bombs and we're winning comfortably then Snit doesn't have to do anything. Then when we're losing these tight games because the margins and room for error are smaller, Snit goes on about how we just can't string any hits or anything.
 
CyYoung31 said:
Only if the Braves take at least two of three from the Mets. Which isn’t going to happen.
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If we can't take 2 of 3 from the Mets with SS, Sale, and Fried going then even thinking about the playoffs is pointless. That's our playoff rotation in the most important series of the year.
 
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Dbacks lost so we win tomight and we are just a game behind bapth them and the Mets. Gonna come down to the wire. Giants have Webb pitching tonight.
 
baseball does such a horrible job of being proactive and just being reactive. I know you can't predict the weather, but there is like a 90% shot of Wednesday and Thursday being a complete wash meaning they will have to figure out how to make up those games which would be after the season is over. Good luck.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
baseball does such a horrible job of being proactive and just being reactive. I know you can't predict the weather, but there is like a 90% shot of Wednesday and Thursday being a complete wash meaning they will have to figure out how to make up those games which would be after the season is over. Good luck.
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God wants Riley in those games

lol
 
bravesfanMatt said:
baseball does such a horrible job of being proactive and just being reactive. I know you can't predict the weather, but there is like a 90% shot of Wednesday and Thursday being a complete wash meaning they will have to figure out how to make up those games which would be after the season is over. Good luck.
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AA has to hammer it in snit's head then that we can use the pen as aggressive as we need to
 
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