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As usual you confuse process with outcomes. Roki was just as dominant as snell has been, and snell was over 100 pitches with no platoon advantage. He was more likely to give up runs than Roki. But we get it…you don’t understand. You don’t have to keep showing us.

And of course the brewers immediately knock him around.

Once again you are 100% exactly correct. Pitchers are always risky, but these pitchers are particularly risky. And they were all risky last off season as well, when AA decided to do nothing about it. The fact all the risky pitchers got hurt does not excuse acquiring zero quality depth, and...

The correct move is Roki (or whoever their high leverage RHP is) in the 9th.

I said this about him a few months ago: Then I forgot about him because I also liked Schumacker, Melvin and now Lombard. AA has several very good options to lead this team competently. He better not whiff.

Right, this team didn’t have quality depth anywhere, including the position players.

Cal wasn’t impressed by Gausman. Guys who can pull off a legit mustache are peak manhood.

I remember writing posts about Gausman mostly being the victim of bad luck with the Braves. I haven’t looked at his pitch data to see what the giants did to fix him.

I’ll never understand what happened when Gausman was with the Braves.

Why didn’t Seattle challenge that play at the plate?

It’s almost like AA needed more quality SP depth…

This is the correct take. The issue isn’t “is elder a legit #5?”. The issue is this discussion is even happening because he started something like 30 games in a season where the Braves missed the playoffs by 7 fucking games. The depth was the issue, not elder.

Arguing about whether elder is a 5th or 7th sp is the stupid depth argument from another angle. Bottom line is he isn’t good enough to lead the team in starts, and only did so due to AA’s failure to acquire depth. This is a discussion that wouldn’t even be happening if AA didn’t fail.

Here we go again… It’s ok AA didn’t build any pitching depth because no amount of depth would have covered the pitching injuries. Did I get that right? Derrrrrrrpppp Other teams lost more war than the Braves to injury, and all but the Os did win more games.

The prospect of a manager like what I hope Lombard is, and Chipper working with the hitters full time has me about as excited as someone can be about a future MLB coaching staff.

This guy wrote it up pretty nicely: Perhaps the most convincing line to me: “Hinch has…done something I prize: he’s convinced Detroit’s pitchers to buy into the idea of a positionless bullpen, despite common wisdom being that pitchers like rigid, pre-assigned roles” This is the EXACT type...

Quick bullet points on Lombard: Grew up in Atlanta Drafted by Braves Debuted with Braves Various minor league roles 1B coach for the Dodgers WS run Bench coach for the reborn Tigers Noted for high baseball IQ I can definitely get behind his candidacy.

MLBTR on Bellinger opting out: “Bellinger is a better defender and arguably superior all-around hitter than Anthony Santander, who signed for five years with a net present value around $69MM last winter. There’s little reason Bellinger shouldn’t beat that contract fairly handily. It wouldn’t at...

A mistake doesn’t have to be massive to be a mistake. Not engaging Schumaker was a mistake, no matter where he ended up going.

Most of the guys on that list have no business on a contending roster, and shouldn’t be with the Braves.