The Statcast data puts his fastball velocity this year at 93.7 MPH, which is slower than his starter days. He sure doesn't seem to be enjoying that massive reliever velocity spike people have been counting on.
Verdugo has 12 hits as a Brave. Eight of them have come in two games. I don't really mean that as a criticism -- the sample size is really small and you get oddities like that. I just think it's funny.
I have to say, the entire argument for Snitker as the team's manager is that he's a great clubhouse guy, someone all the players like and respect, someone who can keep everything on an even keel during a long season and ensure a certain degree of harmony in the clubhouse. If he loses that...
He hit 36 in 2000 and 38 in 2001. He wasn't 1996 Brady Anderson.
Can I sit here and promise you to a metaphysical certainty that Chipper never used steroids? Of course not. It was a pretty steroid-suffused era. Juan Cruz apparently tested positive and he was rail thin. Alex Sanchez was the...
Seriously. Ozuna was a sub-replacement level player in 2021 and 2022, and on April 26, 2023 he was hitting .085/.194/.203. And then he hit 79 home runs in 2023 and 2024 and now he's OPSing over 1.000. What the hell? Has he been freebasing untraceable Profaritol?