GDT #62, 6/9/14: BRAVES (Winless Floyd) vs. ROCKIES (debut of BERGMAN); 8:40 EDT

From what I could tell on fangraphs Kimbrel's average fastball velocity is down this season.
 
Nerfherders said:
I just got back from the game. It was about as boring a Braves win as you can get, but a win is a win. The Braves flaunted their warning track power tonight, but did just enough. Floyd was outstanding and grats to him for his first win in a Braves uni!
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Will you go with niners so he doesnt have an excuse to not go to the game? He says he doesn't wanna go alone.
 
jsebe10 said:
He can hit, just doesn't know how to.
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all the bitching about our hitting coach(s), here's the guy they need to make an impact on. Yes, he can hit, and yes, he doesn't execute. Whatever you're doing, try something else.

He needs to forget the HR and just hit singles; he'd hit a lot of them.
 
stpeteirish said:
all the bitching about our hitting coach(s), here's the guy they need to make an impact on. Yes, he can hit, and yes, he doesn't execute. Whatever you're doing, try something else.

He needs to forget the HR and just hit singles; he'd hit a lot of them.
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Realistically my friend, you don't think the hitting coaches and everyone else know that Andrelton swings for the fences nearly every time, and that he needs to be patient and take pitches?

They can only offer up advice so much, it's his job to execute.

At what point does the blame fall on the player, not the coach?
 
stpeteirish said:
that's OK if he actually hits.
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I think most of us know he's not going to replicate last year's success, because most of last year was just a historic season with his BABIP.

He hasn't shown much power, it's either dropping singles into the outfield or seeing eyed singles through the hole, which history and statistics tell us is more luck than anything.

Plus he strikes out a lot and he hits into double plays as well as Andrelton does.
 
KeithLockhart said:
I think most of us know he's not going to replicate last year's success, because most of last year was just a historic season with his BABIP.

He hasn't shown much power, it's either dropping singles into the outfield or seeing eyed singles through the hole, which history and statistics tell us is more luck than anything.

Plus he strikes out a lot and he hits into double plays as well as Andrelton does.
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Stop being such a malcontent and debbie downer in the game threads KL. Just like Niners at this point.
 
Tapate50 said:
Looks like we get Matzek tomorrow.
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So now there will only be 3 players from the top 15 picks of 2009 who haven't made the majors. I liked Matzek a lot in the draft, he was up there for me, glad Wren and Co. went with Minor instead though. Also even more glad we didn't go with Matt Purke who's getting rocked in AA. That said, who'd think that the best player by a mile would have been taken in the 20s. Not just the best player, or something that was sorted out because of injuries, but far and away the best player in a still young class.
 
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