Posey, Crawford, and et al are playing WAY over their heads. It simply won't last. Unless they've developed a new way to cheat the system like Stros did or they have started taking Bonds special stuff, they will eventually come crashing back down to earth. Players (particularly hitters) don't start having peaks in their mid to late 30's. Either it's a fluke or there's funny business going on. We've already seen Gausman start regressing since they banned foreign substances.
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Posey, Crawford, and et al are playing WAY over their heads. It simply won't last. Unless they've developed a new way to cheat the system like Stros did or they have started taking Bonds special stuff, they will eventually come crashing back down to earth. Players (particularly hitters) don't start having peaks in their mid to late 30's. Either it's a fluke or there's funny business going on. We've already seen Gausman start regressing since they banned foreign substances.
bravesfanforlife88
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deGrom transferred to the 60-day IL. Eligible to come off Sept 15th at the earliest
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
because he is black?
SJ24
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Partly, yeah
No, because he’s Greek. Duh.
There’s definitely something fishy there.
SJ24
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Shhhh.
bravesfanMatt hates representation.
If you're not a whitey from Opelika, Bulls Gap, or Goose Creek, **** YOU!
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
I can accept Posey. If Crawford is a .900 OPS guy, I must come in somewhere in the mid-.850s. They've been getting some unexpected performance numbers from--in addition to Crawford--guys like Wade, Duggar, Ruf, and Flores with the bats and DeSclafani, Wood, Garcia, and McGee on the mound. Every now and then a magical season filled with double rainbows and leprechauns riding on unicorns comes to pass and that might be happening here.
msstate7
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Well did they all meet up in clarksdale, ms, and sell their soul to the devil? Steroids? Corked bats? What they doing?
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
Did you think he was serious. I am still wondering how this is good for baseball. I mean he is a big name. And a long name. But it will not mean much after today.
I typically don’t make decisions or assumptions based on color like you typically do.
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
Maybe the new money ball. Using deeper analytical data to change players into the best version of themselves.
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
What I find really weird is that they find these guys who are career minor leaguers/fringe major leaguers and they somehow have magically transformed themselves into the 1927 Yankees. Posey is very good. Bryant is very good. Belt has been a solid major league hitter (Braves drafted him as a pitcher, but he didn't sign). There's still some tread left on Longoria's tires. But guys like Ruf, Yastrzemski, and Alex Dickerson just seem to fall out of the sky.
Tapate50
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Markakis was great for baseball
Southcack77
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I think some folks took some dumb playoff probability stats too seriously because it played into the frustration of watching an underachieving team.
If the Braves were in striking distance they did right by not selling. They always had a fairly good chance of getting back in the race given who they were competing against.
See, Posey seems the least likely to me. He's a catcher in his mid 30's. He missed all of 2020 and he was awful in 2019. I don't care how good he was 6 years ago, it just doesn't add up.
FWIW, Posey was coming back from hip surgery in 2019 so that season probably needs to be thrown out. He had it in August of 2018 and his recovery was expected to take 6-8 months, so he probably wouldn't have been "back to normal" until after the All-Star break anyway. Taking last year off probably did wonders for him in that department too.
That said, a career renaissance for a Catcher his age definitely seems strange.
Yeah... hip surgery for a 30+ year old catcher doesn't really support your argument the way you think it does.
What argument? The fact that I said "a career renaissance for a Catcher his age definitely seems strange"? Last time I checked that would be agreeing with you when you said "it just doesn't add up". I can't imagine a year off for someone his age that does what he does for a living could possibly do anything other than help - that certainly doesn't mean it's reasonable to expect it to mysteriously turn him into his 26 year old self.
At what point did you find anything argumentative in that statement? You sure do love trying to put words in my mouth.
Sure seemed like you were excusing his 2019 due to hip surgery. But that's even more reason to be suspicious of his current performance.