I think I figured out the key to our wins now.
Don't have [MENTION=106]Garmel[/MENTION] make the GDT's anymore.
You might be onto something. I must be bringing the bad mojo.
8/2/2015: SUNDAY BRAVES THREAD ... Phillies seek 4-game sweep on endless road trip
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You might be onto something. I must be bringing the bad mojo.
sturg33
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You are delusional.
I really would love to go back to some of those april game threads with all the victory laps... holy smokes.
This team is awful and played well above their herds for the first 2 months of the season.
Your trying to say that us trading Kelly and Uribe (who we didn't even get til May), made the difference in our team being decent and terrible?
And Freeman being out for a month and our closer who was having a really good season getting hurt.
Yes, those factors led us from being the a decent team (which we were) to the awful team that we are today.
Not sure how that can be denied.
Freeman being out hurt. And losing Grili really didnt' have much of an impact. JJ was still good and losing our closer didn't cause us to stop scoring runs.
You still fail to acknowledge that the only reason we were 'good' was because of unexpected starts to the season from several hitters. And most of them have regressed to the mean and we are garbage again.
You built up the fact that making contact would score more runs. Well guess what? It hasn't.
Contact was scoring plenty of runs when our best hitter was in the lineup. The aggregate season numbers don't account for that at all.
How was Grilli not a big loss? It just weakened our bullpen tremendously. The point I was responded to wasn't just about the offense. It was about the team as a whole. When Grilli was healthy and Viz came up our pen was looking damn good. I still believe we would have been around 500 all year if Grilli/Freeman were healthy and the trades weren't made. Now, the way the team is going is probably better for the future but I would have rather won more games.
bravesnumberone
Well-known member
The first few weeks of the season, we had a really, really good average with RISP. That was with Freeman's poor start, too. AJ was playing like a damn all star, as was Peterson. We stopped scoring; that's why we're losing more. It should have been no mystery we didn't have the offense to last and actually compete. Combine that with a just OK rotation and awful bullpen sans Grilli and JJ, and well, there ya go.
Oh, and the same nitwit who can't manage in a close game.
Oh, and the same nitwit who can't manage in a close game.
Whether or not it would have lasted is a guess. Yes, the numbers would indicate that more than likely it would have regressed but the diminished scoring output directly coincided with Freeman going down. And now to mock the offense is silly since we traded two average hitters at worst for two awful hitters.
I don't know if you have noticed this or not but scoring runs has been the teams biggest issue for awhile now. Grili did not help that problem one bit.
And why isn't contact working after Freeman went out? The Braves still ahve the lowest K% in the league. If all you need to do is put the ball in play then we should have kept on scoring regardless. Unless Freeman made other players magically get hits.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Replacing Freeman, KJ, and Uribe with Gomes/Perez, CJ and Garcia is a pretty bad downgrade but continue to stay bitter.
Braves are still putting the ball in the play. Why aren't we scoring more runs?
This is a straw man. THe premise was always having good hitters that put the ball in play. Not a lineup littered with Quad A guys.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Some sort of typo
bravesnumberone
Well-known member
Dalyn
Fredi Gonzalez Supporter
I think it's some dig toward Wren.
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
Yes. It means TJ surgery is a high likelihood...
Wait. Is it an inverted W? No?
No idea, then.
