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I don't normally post in here, but thought this might be relevant to any discussions that might be going on.

If he pitches terribly from here to the end you can't pencil him in for 2026. And if he doesn't pitch at all you can't count on him for next year either. My gut feeling is he has a better chance of being successful next year if he takes the rest of this year off to get healthy and fix his...

Let's be realistic. There will be no playoff baseball involving the Braves this year. If he thinks he needs to sit to get right for 2026, by all means sit him, even if it means Luke Williams is taking his spot in the rotation. Every roster and playing time decision the remainder of the year...

We've kind of seen this before with Strider when coming back from injury. When he's busting 100 with his fastball he's elite. Drop him down to 97-98 he's average at best. It's such a fine line with him. Hopefully next year he will have regained his strength and velocity, but he'll also be...

Seems to be happening with our boy Kjerstad in Baltimore now as well. He hit at every level on the way up the ladder after getting over the myocarditis, and flashed a little bit in his first two chances in MLB. If/when the O's cut bait with him I'd like to see the Braves take a flyer on him...

It seems like a no-brainer. Give him the title and the salary, and tell him ahead of time he's only got to go on the road a couple of times per year plus playoffs. We already carry multiple hitting coaches, so it's not like the team would be missing out on some key administrative details with...

It's probably a bit of recency bias. I wouldn't have a problem with switching Chipper and Mathews between 3B and DH.

If you watch the replay it would've been a pretty easy DP. Milam wasn't even halfway to the bag by the time Aloy got it. Kozeal doesn't make the quickest turn at 2B but barring a wild flip or bad throw it was game over. It's like the whole team got vapor lock in the last half inning.

If you were an Arkansas fan you'd be numb to it. Aloy was lights out all year defensively, rarely if ever making boneheaded decisions. The curse is the only explanation that makes sense. I'm hoping that he falls to the Braves because if he continues to improve at a similar rate he'd be the...

Bobby used platoons to a fault. Even if one side of the platoon may as well have been carrying a toilet paper core to the plate instead of a bat, and the other half could actually hit a little.

Not really. I mean, AI could handle the strategic decisions better than most managers, sure. But managing the clubhouse is also a major part of the job. Snitker was good at that early on, but for whatever reason he seems to have lost the one positive skill that he brought to the job.

Fair point, but I was mainly focused on the World Series year and after.

I look at this like firing a college football coach for underperforming and then replacing him with someone on his staff. There may be individuals who could do a better job, but it does nothing to correct the culture. For whatever reason guys aren't playing anywhere near their potential under...

I get the sentiment, but they aren't going to make wholesale changes midseason. If they fire Snitker before the season ends, it leaves open the possibility that Weiss, Perez, or whoever gets named interim benefits from all the guys underachieving suddenly finding their stride. If an interim...

Honestly what's the difference? Both are replacement level or worse.

Hear me out...Snitker to State as head coach.

Four games, one plate appearance in May. You could be onto something.

That's pretty much how Snitker became the full time manager.

I'm sure it's been said multiple times in the thread already, but firing Snitker midseason does nothing but enhance the possibility of the interim being named permanent replacement. Whoever would take over...Weiss, Perez, etc...would almost certainly see a bump in record due to the production...

I was listening to the 9th while driving home from the gym. When Ben Ingram said Rosario was coming in to pinch hit for White (when ER was actually coming to run for Murphy) I nearly drove my car into someone's yard. I thought, surely to God Snit won't do that two nights in a row.