GDT 4/1: Sale - Business Man’s Special

Hulavol said:
Pretty solid all the way around! We are winning despite some folks not exactly hitting as they surely will in the weeks ahead…
Luckily we have Drake Baldwin.

And - we are sitting at a half game off of the best record in baseball…. (Compared to being 0-6 at this point last year).
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Love the Drake!
 
Enscheff said:
The answer is that snit jr is an idiot.
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While that might be true. He is less of one on the simple fact he used his best reliever for the best part of the lineup. Was that intentional. Who knows. The Braves beat guys are too dumb to ask questions like that.

Still hated him using the 3 top relievers up 4 runs though.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
While that might be true. He is less of one on the simple fact he used his best reliever for the best part of the lineup. Was that intentional. Who knows. The Braves beat guys are too dumb to ask questions like that.

Still hated him using the 3 top relievers up 4 runs though.
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He’s probably been sitting there for years thinking, “if I were in charge…..I’d be protecting this win…..instead of letting Dodd or Fedde or Neris or Ruiz, etc blow this shit again. I can’t take another damn loss. Fuck this. If I’m ever in charge, and we have a lead, I’m winning the fucking game.”

Not saying he’s right to do it this way, just saying that might be why he’s doing it this way,
 
I’d rather use him in that situation than be forced to use him in a high pressure 5-3 situation with men on base because the other guys couldn’t close the game out.
 
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bravesnumberone said:
I’d rather use him in that situation then be forced to use him in a high pressure 5-3 situation with men on base because the other guys couldn’t close the game out.
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The problem is, most games will be decided by less than 4 runs. And Suarez is probably only going to make 60-70 appearances this year. We can't burn him out in April games where we have a comfortable lead. Especially in a stretch of 13 straight games. Luckily, the schedule is mostly favorable until early May. So hopefully we only have to count on Suarez a couple times a week for the rest of April.

If this happens a handful of times a year, it isn't a big deal. But so far, it has happened twice in the first week of the season. Weiss needs to do a better of job going forward unless he wants to send Suarez's arm to an early grave.
 
Carp said:
The problem is, most games will be decided by less than 4 runs. And Suarez is probably only going to make 60-70 appearances this year. We can't burn him out in April games where we have a comfortable lead. Especially in a stretch of 13 straight games. Luckily, the schedule is mostly favorable until early May. So hopefully we only have to count on Suarez a couple times a week for the rest of April.

If this happens a handful of times a year, it isn't a big deal. But so far, it has happened twice in the first week of the season. Weiss needs to do a better of job going forward unless he wants to send Suarez's arm to an early grave.
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I am confident, no matter the point of the season, if I were a retiree and had the time and energy, I could easily search old game threads and find a time where Snit used the back end of the pen against the heart of the opposing order and got lambasted by the same crew. I’m not concerned about this. It was the correct move to lock down the win with a west coast trip coming up. We hardly ever play well out west.
 
bravesnumberone said:
I am confident, no matter the point of the season, if I were a retiree and had the time and energy, I could easily search old game threads and find a time where Snit used the back end of the pen against the heart of the opposing order and got lambasted by the same crew. I’m not concerned about this. It was the correct move to lock down the win with a west coast trip coming up. We hardly ever play well out west.
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Again, by itself it's completely defendable. Even a handful of times throughout the year. But it's the first week of the season and he's done it twice. You can't bring Suarez into the game every time we have a 4 run lead late in the game, or we're gonna overuse him. Work load management is one of the the primary issues we saw with Snit. I'd like to see Weiss use better judgement going forward.
 
Carp said:
Again, by itself it's completely defendable. Even a handful of times throughout the year. But it's the first week of the season and he's done it twice. You can't bring Suarez into the game every time we have a 4 run lead late in the game, or we're gonna overuse him. Work load management is one of the the primary issues we saw with Snit. I'd like to see Weiss use better judgement going forward.
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This. I am all for winning games that are winnable. But you have 8-9 pen guys for a reason. Kinley and Bummer are not complete bums and should be able to hold a lead. And using 1 of the top relievers in a 4 run lead is fine. But burning through all three. That is crazy in my book. If you only have 3 guys you trust to hold a 4 run lead for an inning then your pen is a problem.
 
And people bitching about twit using low leverage guys when up by 4 probably was more of the situation. Day off the next day. Guys on base with less than two outs. Things that change to script. But against Oakland with three innings to cover and a tough west coast trip. Probably should have saved those bullets.
 
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