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Did snit just properly deploy Ozuna as a PH?

I’m super glad the Braves will be paying $15M for 2 more seasons to an average bat with terrible LF defense.

The Braves can probably make a nice bench out of the players in their starting lineup. That’s not a great statement after I reread it.

I have a degree in engineering physics and my current job title is Specialty Mathematics Technical Lead at a multi-billion dollar slot gaming company. I'm named inventor on several patents and trade secrets involving mathematical verification/analysis. I can sure you will 100% confidence I know...

Any amount of backspin will create an upwards magus force causing rise. The confusion is likely that "rise" doesn't mean the ball rises. "Rise" means it doesn't drop as much as it would with no upward magus force applied, and only gravity pulling it down. Gravity always pulls all pitches down...

I'm not sure how Stuff+ works, but from what I've seen I'm not impressed. Movement data is literally right there for anyone to look at, so it's not like there's some barrier to entry people have to overcome. Anyone can look at how much his split moves, and compare it to how much a split from...

Doesn't the prospect have to be on major Top 100 prospect lists to be eligible for this draft pick?

Stadium looks half full

I'm sorry the data shows Waldrep's split isn't that great. It's an odd thing to be upset about.

The whole point of Acuna's hand position (who he was copying) is that there is no load and subsequent movement to get the hands low and on plane with the ball. Regardless, most MLB hitters don't actually know why they are succeeding, so whatever made it click is a good thing. Still shouldn't...

The current 2026 tax number is about $150M, and I fully expect it to be $250M by the end of the offseason. AA should legitimately have around $100M to spend in 2026, so Tucker plus whatever other acquisition he wants should absolutely be doable. The Acuna window is closing, so this is the time...

Digging into Waldrep's individual pitch movement may give some insight to his issue. He threw 9 splits. 6 of those splits had 0" of rise or negative rise. He recorded a K on 4 of those 6 well executed splits. The other 3 splits actually had 6", 5" and 4" of rise, and were terrible. Those...

If the resetting the tax wasn't done in order to spend big this offseason, why in the world was it reset? Failing to spend now makes last offseason even worse.

Never mind, I'll post it. Waldrep threw 9 splits. A total of 123 MLB pitchers have thrown 5+ splits in 2025. Waldrep's 5.8" of arm-side run (higher number is better) ranks 116 of 124. For comparison, Schwelly's moves 9.4" and elite movement is 15"+. Waldrep's 1.0" of rise (lower number is...

Now post the movement numbers compared to other splits in the game. I'll wait to see if it's improved.

He has simply stopped swinging at pitches out of the zone so often. I'm not sure why a stance change would affect that, or why a team of 3 hitting coaches took months to help him figure it out, but I'm glad he's corrected it for now. Just in time to help the Braves get a worse draft pick.

Snit is suddenly going to become a tactical savant, the BABIP gods are going to finally smile on the offense, and the Braves will win just enough games to get a mediocre draft pick in 2026. This team will never pass up an opportunity to make it harder to succeed than it should be.

So now the team wants to wake up. Figures.

Braves are going to have a .400 BABIP the rest of the season and win 84 games.

I think the last 2 deadlines and last off season is very telling. Something has gone off the rails, and this off season is pretty much his last chance to convince me he hasn’t outgrown his effectiveness.