GDT: 4/28/2018 Braves @ Phillies

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Great win!

I hadn’t even looked around the MLB to see how we fair record-wise with other teams, and we’re sitting pretty.
 
Regarding our walks problem, keep in mind that most of it has been from a few pitchers and one of them in Minter has yet to be hurt by the walks (tonight almost did but Winkler saved his bacon). Freeman has 10 walks along with Minter, tied for worst on the team. Both are good pitchers, one has been overused explaining the crazy high walks and the other in Minter has legit issues with control occasionally but is so dominate that usually he can walk a batter and still no damage. Ramirez also walked 8 batters before hitting the DL and it turned out he had been dealing with a shoulder issue going back to ST (so he said anway). Viz is another walking too many, 9 after tonight, but outside of one game in Colorado has been good and not hurt by that. Moylan has been bad giving up too many hits combined with walks but Snit has misused him a lot too.
 
Regarding our walks problem, keep in mind that most of it has been from a few pitchers and one of them in Minter has yet to be hurt by the walks (tonight almost did but Winkler saved his bacon). Freeman has 10 walks along with Minter, tied for worst on the team. Both are good pitchers, one has been overused explaining the crazy high walks and the other in Minter has legit issues with control occasionally but is so dominate that usually he can walk a batter and still no damage. Ramirez also walked 8 batters before hitting the DL and it turned out he had been dealing with a shoulder issue going back to ST (so he said anway). Viz is another walking too many, 9 after tonight, but outside of one game in Colorado has been good and not hurt by that. Moylan has been bad giving up too many hits combined with walks but Snit has misused him a lot too.

strand rate has minimized the damage from the walks...but eventually it will normalize
 
strand rate has minimized the damage from the walks...but eventually it will normalize

Hopefully Minter and Freeman can drop their walk numbers, Freeman by not being used too much. Viz hopefully does too. If so then our walk numbers should go down.
 
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