jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
He must be replaced with someone modern and competent. That’s the first huge domino.
GDT 8-18: White Sox at Braves
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jsebe10
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I disagree.
The ownership stays status quo and will continue to direct the FO to shop at the bargain isle.
The gimmick is the battery and ticket sales...Winning is priority 2....They DO NOT pay players...
Braves have a high payroll...
I mean there's only been a few procedures done at the major league level to gauge. But Drew Rasmussen is a success story with this procedure. Of course, the Rays used him a not in the pen last year after he came back. We probably should have chose that option.
msstate7
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Good, I wanna hear successes bc I'm panicking big time on strider
Like AA I'll give him the offseason to see if he can regain anything that he's lost. I doubt the velo is ever back to what it was but the reality is that right now it's his command that's killing him. The good news is that it looks like his slider and now the curve are still swing and miss pitches. Strider is the only starter in baseball to have a 50% whiff rate on 2 different pitches which is something to be positive about.
Giolito seems to be doing well.
Strike3urout
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It sucks to watch, but nothing of what Strider does the rest of the season matters all that much. He needs a dedicated off-season to build back to full strength and get rid of whatever is still ailing him. If he's still sitting at 95mph next April, then we have a problem.
WaitingFor2017
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Can Snit go ahead and announce his retirement? Every day that passes makes me think he'll want and get that elusive 50th year in the organization.
We certainly don't need his dumbassery ruining another year with our closing window.
We certainly don't need his dumbassery ruining another year with our closing window.
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Lmao like what are you basing this on? He’s exactly the type of person to be open to that
Or “PEG”, which has a different meaning to those familiar with cy’s mom
Exit velocity is at his career norm than what it was last year.
His expected stats are a good bit worse however. I feel like he's probably playing a bit over his head. But I do think if everything stays the same, we should expect an OPS in the .750-800 OPS range. As long as he maintains that, he will be useful.
I will say, the elite BB rate isn't something I expected to see. He would be top 20 if he had enough PAs to qualify.
He's already been adjusting his pitching style. He's throwing a curve now, that he never threw before the injury, at least not with any regularity. And it's playing up very well. He has also improved his change a good bit as well.
Strider is struggling with command at the moment, as pitchers coming back from a major arm injury tend to do. That is the main issue we're seeing with him. That combined with the decreased effectiveness of his once elite FB produces the results we've been seeing over the last 5 starts.
WaitingFor2017
Well-known member
Just win, baby.
Gotta turn this 73 win team into a 75 win team.
Gotta turn this 73 win team into a 75 win team.