jsebe10
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Hardly his fault tonight. Harris diving for a ball that landed 5 feet in front him…our catchers having an absolutely abysmal night at the plate. And the continuation of playing god damn Grossman.
GDT: 30 Aug 22…Rockies vs Braves 7:20 pm
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Hardly his fault tonight. Harris diving for a ball that landed 5 feet in front him…our catchers having an absolutely abysmal night at the plate. And the continuation of playing god damn Grossman.
msstate7
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Not saying it's his fault, but he needs to start hitting again. This team can't have another month of .689
Ops with Acuna hurt worse than we're being told
jsebe10
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They overlooked them…plain and simple. Stat padding big dicken ball players…all they think
They are. Got the big contracts and
Living on cloud fckn 9…too good to play the game fundamentally the right way.
CrimsonCowboy
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Might depend on if Swanson is resigned
jsebe10
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More like this week….Figure Ozuna the Fck out for god sakes man…Yes his character is that of a ham sandwich but I’ll take his power potential and a chance to run into one over
Grossman anyway of the week…
Hudson2
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He’s gonna have to fix both holes unfortunately. Swanson will be the cheapest of the 4 big SS.
CrimsonCowboy
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I agree on both counts. As some, including myself, have speculated that if Swanson returns, then maybe Grissom becomes an outfielder and takes over left.
OcalaBrave
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On Riley... He is a streaky hitter in that he will be a .750 OPS as a baseline and then have 100 ABS of 1.25+ like he did in July. When he gets hot like that again, I'd prefer it be in October.
Maybe Ronald and Ozzie can come back and get hot like that at the same time.
Maybe Ronald and Ozzie can come back and get hot like that at the same time.
Hudson2
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Yeah that’s the only place he could play and get regular at bats. Like Frenchy said last night, when Ozzie comes back you’ll see Grissom go to the OF.
Hudson2
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Not to my knowledge, hopefully he’s a quick learner lol. They shag balls in the OF all the time before games and he’s pretty athletic so it won’t be to bad.
WaitingFor2017
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The Rockies are one win away from winning seven straight series in Atlanta. I think they’ve only fielded one good team in those seven years.
50PoundHead
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Grissom likely wouldn't be Gattis out there, but it would be an adjustment for sure. But if he hits, we'll likely have to tolerate some intermittent adventures.
I really do have to laugh a bit. Someone posted an article after Grossman hit a couple of HRs that lauded the Brave's analytics staff for noticing something Grossman had changed while in Detroit and that the Braves had solved the problem by rebooting him to some extent. Grossman isn't a terrible player by any means (he's had a decent career although he's never been a very good defensive OF and he's likely reaching the end), but to suggest that any analytic department was going to transform him into the guy who would solve our LF problem just isn't being realistic.
Anthopoulos took a shot and that's all we can really ask of him, but the dice clearly weren't as hot as they were for him last deadline. I will say that he really didn't think clearly about the OF situation during the off-season. Maybe the lockout contributed and maybe the Freeman situation contributed, but he just didn't realize the seriousness of the problem and the need for a better remedy.
zbhargrove
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Yet we kill them at Coors where they usually play decent. Baseball’s weird man
Hudson2
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Yeah I think most of us knew Grossman wasn’t gonna be the answer they just tried to sell us he was. He’ll with be looking for a big upgrade out there or let Grissom have LF.