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Braves are still below .500 when Freeman plays. The main difference is the team stopped scoring runs because the overachievers came down to earth. Freeman being out hurt but he wasn't the main reason the team stopped scoring runs.
Don't forget we had Elliot Johnson starting for us. And that Walden missed time to injury too. And that Justin only showed up for 2 months that year.
Our schedule was the same? Really?
During the first half we only had 13 series against teams with winning records (out of 28 total series). From July 9th, when we were 1 game below .500, till July 29th when we dropped 9 games below .500, 4 of the 5 teams we faced had winning records (and 5 of 7 when we got to 12 games below .500, and the Phils are 16-6 in the second half on top of that). And that was before we traded anyone for the most part (KJ and Uribe were traded for like two of those games, and we had Freddie back for those games they were gone), so unless you somehow think Freddie is a 20 WAR player it wasn't simply missing him that caused us to drop 8 more games below .500 in a 16 game stretch. We've gotten beat by teams with winning records all season, it's not some strange thing when we struggled against good teams (and it likely would have been even worse had we not gotten lucky and missed Kershaw and Grienke during the Dodgers series).
13 of the 23 teams we face in the second half have winning records. Our schedule in the second half is much harder than the first, it's not even close really.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
We did sweep Harvey, DeGrom AND Noah at home....
Doesn't really change his key fact that we missed most teams good pitchers this year. We've face DeGrom in 2 of the 4 series so far against the Mets, Syndergaard in 1 of 2 series he was up for, and Harvey in 1 of 4 series. Faced Scherzer in 1 of 4 Nats series. Faced Kershaw in 1 of 2 Dodgers series, faced Grienke zero times in 2 series. Faced Cueto 1 time in 2 Reds series. Faced Gerrit Cole in one of 2 Pitt series, didn't face Burnett in 2 Pitt series. Faced Hamels in 1 of 3 Phils series.
Honestly, before I was curious and just looked it up I didn't realize how absurdly lucky we were with matchups in the first half. I knew we missed Grienke and Kershaw and seemed to not face many teams best pitchers, but had no idea it was that ridiculous. I'm not even sure how the hell all that managed to happen, that's basically facing teams #3,#4, and #5 starters the majority of the series we have had against decent teams.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
So we're supposed to face a teams top guns every series?
Of course not, but we had 27 chances to face those pitchers I just mentioned, and we only faced them 9 times. That's a much lower than normal % chance to face them since you'd face 60% of a teams rotation in a given 3 game series. It's extremely bad in the case of the Mets, where we've managed to only face pretty much 1 of the three good pitchers per series on average, we've faced their #4 and #5 starters in almost every series. I'd expect to at least face a teams best pitcher at least once if we place them 6 times, but we've had multiple teams where we missed their best pitcher altogether with 6 games, or like with Scherzer where we hit him once in 12 games.
I'm not really willing to go all in on the probably statistics on that, but they have to be pretty low odds when it has happened that many times this year.
UNCBlue012
Well-known member
Smh. Sorry ass whiner is what he is.
NinersSBChamps
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br> 2015 (Co-Winner)</BR>20
Braves have 12 as a team and 2 of those are from a player no longer on the team.
Coach_Chris
Arizona Fall Leaguer
Pssssh....who couldn't have done that. I could have. Watch this and hold my beer ....
Most talented team to continually come up short?
yeezus
It's OVER 5,000!
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The Dodgers have Kershaw/Greinke. And Wood!