Duvall has two things working against him. Likely a loss of bat speed and the dead baseball. I mean his 3.6% HR/FB ratio is beyond pathetic. I'm not blaming all of that on the baseball (like I am for Olson) but it is a factor.
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Duvall has two things working against him. Likely a loss of bat speed and the dead baseball. I mean his 3.6% HR/FB ratio is beyond pathetic. I'm not blaming all of that on the baseball (like I am for Olson) but it is a factor.
jsebe10
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Although having a slow start to the season I wonder if the Pirates will be willing to part ways with Reynolds at any point…The question being of course do we have enough equity in the farm system to obtain him…Ideally a couple farm hands and Duvall(if the Braves can eat most of what’s owed on the $9.5m)
zbhargrove
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Reynolds kind of has Nate McClouth vibes to me for some reason.
I don't think the concern was ever that much about the players being sent to Oakland - of course Contreras' play so far (and if they can find ways to keep him in the lineup moving forward) and the fact that Harris looks like he could help sometime during the second half has everything to do with that. The point many made about the subtraction of Freeman/addition of Olson was that they worried about exactly how much the change in the clubhouse would change the on-field performance.
It sucks that there's no way to measure these things, and the numbers crowd is being perfectly reasonable when they question EXACTLY how much these things contribute to wins at the end of the day. However, acting like they don't make any difference at all is beyond ridiculous - and that's what causes all the push back. Luckily most posters on either side here don't argue whether those intangibles have an impact anymore, they simply disagree at times about how much ACTUAL impact they have.
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msstate7
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If you got me out there wearing cowboy boots, it would be pretty hard to tell a difference
bravesfanforlife88
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This teams overall defense is shockingly bad
Tapate50
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THICC
Overall I would tend to agree.
LF is a complete joke and RF is bad whenever Acuna isn't playing. For all the gains that Swanson has made this year Riley has offset it by being awful (statistically speaking he's at the bottom 1% in Outs Above Average in all of baseball). Olson has been as advertised and is great at 1B. Albies hasn't played as well as you would expect him to. The defense was great last year when they went on their run and right now it's just not there.
VirginiaBrave
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MLB didn't screw the Braves, the Braves did it to themselves. They had the best player at a position and decided he wasn't worth a reasonable raise, but MLB had nothing to do with that.
Freeman took less money to leave the Braves.
msstate7
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This does make me feel better about losing him. He screwed himself lol
VirginiaBrave
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He should have been priority number one, and if he had have been he wouldn't be in LA right now.
He was priority #1. Braves can't make a guy sign that didn't want to be here.
VirginiaBrave
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I don't buy that. IF I had been in AA's position, Freeman would be my 1b no matter what else that would've meant for this year. That's what I mean by priority 1.
Thank god you aren't GM.
Love Freddie but he shouldn't have gotten overpaid at his age.
Chipper thankfully restructured to less than market value to stay with us, because you know, he actually prioritized staying.
Hudson2
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FF got caught trying to get more from us than anybody else and he had to settle for less. If he really wanted to be here he would of taken less money. Good riddance
That's how you ruin a franchise
CyYoung31
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And it’s so funny how that’s going to be the narrative if the Braves fail this year. (Hell, it already is.) Because, the Braves did try to overpay him. He didn’t take it.