GDT 7/8: Braves in a AAA stadium

Didier just needs a little bit of tweaking and also work on his location. I feel like he needs to do a better job of sequencing. I also wonder if he perhaps isn't tipping his pitches.

Stuff+ rates all 4 of his pitches as better than average, with his Slider and Curve both rating as double plus. He absolutely has the pure stuff to succeed in the MLB right now.
 
Carp said:
Didier just needs a little bit of tweaking and also work on his location. I feel like he needs to do a better job of sequencing. I also wonder if he perhaps isn't tipping his pitches.

Stuff+ rates all 4 of his pitches as better than average, with his Slider and Curve both rating as double plus. He absolutely has the pure stuff to succeed in the MLB right now.
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That's the stuff you work on in the minor leagues. Calling him up was another questionable move by the front office.
 
man I get irrationally mad when people think a guy who hid in the minors for 40 years and was blessed with the keys to a winning ball club, deserves any respect or dignity.. The team won in spite of him NEVER because of him. He should never be allowed to retire on his own terms.. Him still leading this team is literally the first sign that AA was never as smart as everyone gave him credit for. Twit cost us games in the regular season and the playoffs.. he made AA's job harder because he never played the bench.. yet he continued to manage year after year.
 
Atlanta Braves are 12 games under .500.
Gwinnett is 16 games under .500.
Columbus is 11 games under .500.
Rome is 8 games under .500.
Augusta is 2 games over .500.
Rookie is 4 games under .500.
 
Even the Royals signed beyond washed Dallas Keuchel today. Dallas eating 4 innings a start would've been better than Didier losing confidence the last 2 weeks.
 
50PoundHead said:
That's the stuff you work on in the minor leagues. Calling him up was another questionable move by the front office.
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Carp said:
Didier just needs a little bit of tweaking and also work on his location. I feel like he needs to do a better job of sequencing. I also wonder if he perhaps isn't tipping his pitches.

Stuff+ rates all 4 of his pitches as better than average, with his Slider and Curve both rating as double plus. He absolutely has the pure stuff to succeed in the MLB right now.
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The way Didier was handled is borderline incompetence completely. The kid has talent and you risk blowing up his confidence altogether so he could get seasoned in the majors? And for what? Who's freaking ego decided that this was the move to save the season, let alone let the kid get rocked? The good old boy network should be gone sooner rather than later. It's really just a stunning situation with the Braves as a whole. Most of you diehards like me remember the bleak days. This is not as bleak, but if FEELS like is.
 
Deester11 said:
The way Didier was handled is borderline incompetence completely. The kid has talent and you risk blowing up his confidence altogether so he could get seasoned in the majors? And for what? Who's freaking ego decided that this was the move to save the season, let alone let the kid get rocked? The good old boy network should be gone sooner rather than later. It's really just a stunning situation with the Braves as a whole. Most of you diehards like me remember the bleak days. This is not as bleak, but if FEELS like is.
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What makes it feel bleak is that the pre-season odds (which I always take with a grain of salt) had the Braves with a > 90% chance of being in the playoffs and a healthy chance at winning it all. No one was kidding themselves during the bleak Eddie Haas/Chuck Tanner/Russ Nixon era.

There is a certain arrogance in the current front office and player development staff that we've seen with the aggressive promotion of pitchers when it was obvious they weren't ready. I don't know who is doing the book on the guys as they move up the system, but there's something in the analysis that is missing. And I will hit the extension/Kelenic nail on the head again because if you're a team like the Braves that is concerned about the luxury tax threshold, you can't tie up money because (and I hate using military analogies) the "war you start isn't the war you end up fighting." Not having money to at least acquire reasonable stop-gaps has really hurt this team both last year and this year.
 
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