GDT 9/17 Kenny Powers at the small park

The DBacks lost to the Rockies again last night in a blow out. Them collapsing worse than us is our only hope. I won’t be tuning in for that nonsense though.
 
It isn't just the bad players playing bad or the good players playing below par or the injuries or the bad luck.. it is also dumb baseball. There is enough talent on this team to overcome some of these problems.. but when you see all of these things happen night after night.. then you know it is hopeless..
 
msstate7 said:
Only 4 things were keeping up till ST next season...

1. RH Ozzie

2. Will snit be back?

3. Soler vs ozuna. We can only have one of these 2 next season or AA has failed us. Personally I think it will be soler bc they will actually let him play rf and Acuna will need some DH days.

4. Who plays SS next season? Arcia shouldn't be the choice
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Hard to know how much money will be available. A truckload is leaving town and the bad contracts we picked up to land Kelenic will be off the books, but there are some automatic increases built in with some of the long-term deals. Plus, if they choose Ozuna over Soler, they'll be paying Soler to play somewhere else (always a bad idea). I think Enscheff laid all that out the other day and as he pointed out, it's probably less than we hope. I've heard some estimates on what it will take to land Adames and it's probably out of the Braves' price range.

I think Snitker hangs it (whether urged to or not is the question). I just think the injuries and the uneven performances have just worn him out. He doesn't help himself with a lot of his decisions and he appears to be out-thinking himself more this season. Last season was an absolute magic show and the previous years not that far behind it and all he had to do during those seasons was fill out the line-up card correctly. He may be a Cox disciple, but he doesn't manage much like Cox at all. Part of that is the changing game (universal DH shortens benches and limits viable platooning), but it requires some level of creativity that Snitker doesn't appear to possess. I don't know if a more analytically-driven manager would have made much difference. They've been putting tire patches on tire patches all year and they currently have three or four guys in the line-up who all should be batting 9th.

I am one of the few who is not hoisting the white flag and use the 1988 Dodgers as the example of how anything can happen in the post-season. Braves have more than enough pitching to carry through a short series and if the top of the batting order steps up, they can score some runs. Key will be the bullpen and at least some production out of the 6-9 in the batting order.

Anyway, should be an interesting off-season regardless of what happens the rest of the way. Hard to undertake a major re-tooling given all the long-term deals so filling around the edges will be the most we can probably expect. Given how bad the bench was this year, improvement around the edges would be welcome. More than anything, getting guys healthy will pump things up considerably.
 
The only good thing about this season is that it’s become clear we should not throw boatloads of money at Fried and his departure won’t doom us. But other moves do need to be made.
 
CyYoung31 said:
Omfg

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I dont guess i do. We are 2 games out with 11 left and 3 are against the team we are chasing. I still have a little faith.
 
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One part of me wants this infuriating team to miss the playoffs. However, the other part recognizes that they can still be dangerous in the playoffs, and there's no truly dominant team out there. The whole thing is up for grabs.
 
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