Phillies game 3

Schwelly down to a 3.19 FIP on the season. In his last 8 starts, he has a 2.84 ERA with a 2.67 FIP.

I hate to lose Fried, but it certainly seems like we have his replacement on hand. A rotation of Sale, Strider, Schwelly, and Lopez is going to be very strong next year if everyone stays healthy.
 
The Athletic did an article on 5 new pitchers who are most set up for success… Schwellenbach was on the list a while back… but there was another Brave today: Grant Holmes… I think we found a good one.

“The real estate broker is back in the bullpen for now, but he might have what it takes to succeed as a starter despite spending nine years wandering in the wilderness of the minor leagues in three different organizations.

So what happened?

“Added a slider,” he said. “A nice and simple one. It was mostly a curveball, but it wasn’t curving as well in the PCL, and so when I got to the Braves, they said, let’s get those fastballs up and the sliders down. I started throwing it and throwing it hard, and it worked.”

The bread and butter for most pitchers in this league, the slider has been a revelation for Holmes. It’s 87 mph, with good single-plane drop, and Stuff+ says it’s his best pitch. He admitted he’d always had a feel for spin, and that it was surprising that it took so long to add a slider.

“Four hundred sixty! Four hundred sixty sliders he tried with us,” said Oakland pitching coach Scott Emerson. But Holmes was a starter for most of seven years in that organization — is that a ton of sliders to try? And Holmes himself said it was more the cutter they were working on then, so it could be a classification issue. Either way, the cutter is still important for Holmes, who doesn’t have great shape on his fastball but does command it well. That command — and a little extra velo that Holmes got by taking some of his reliever mentality to the starting pitcher role — allows him to play the two fastballs and the two breaking balls off each other in what looks to be a veteran manner.

Well, technically he is a veteran at 28. But it looks like his major-league story is just beginning. He may not have elite starter upside, but he has the tools to be a mid-rotation asset for the Braves.“
 
Wrc+ (braves PA only)...
Soler 168 (57 PA)
Ozuna 165
Laureano 129 (107 PA)
Whit 121 (81 PA)

That's the leader board. We really need a lot more from these guys...
Olson 100
Ozzie 98
Kelenic 91 (98 vs rhp)
Murphy 90
Harris 80

Duvall is 141 vs lhp.
Harris is 68 vs lhp.
Laureano is 126 vs lhp


The OF needs to be...
Soler
Harris/laureano
Kelenic/duvall
 
zbhargrove said:
The Athletic did an article on 5 new pitchers who are most set up for success… Schwellenbach was on the list a while back… but there was another Brave today: Grant Holmes… I think we found a good one.

“The real estate broker is back in the bullpen for now, but he might have what it takes to succeed as a starter despite spending nine years wandering in the wilderness of the minor leagues in three different organizations.

So what happened?

“Added a slider,” he said. “A nice and simple one. It was mostly a curveball, but it wasn’t curving as well in the PCL, and so when I got to the Braves, they said, let’s get those fastballs up and the sliders down. I started throwing it and throwing it hard, and it worked.”

The bread and butter for most pitchers in this league, the slider has been a revelation for Holmes. It’s 87 mph, with good single-plane drop, and Stuff+ says it’s his best pitch. He admitted he’d always had a feel for spin, and that it was surprising that it took so long to add a slider.

“Four hundred sixty! Four hundred sixty sliders he tried with us,” said Oakland pitching coach Scott Emerson. But Holmes was a starter for most of seven years in that organization — is that a ton of sliders to try? And Holmes himself said it was more the cutter they were working on then, so it could be a classification issue. Either way, the cutter is still important for Holmes, who doesn’t have great shape on his fastball but does command it well. That command — and a little extra velo that Holmes got by taking some of his reliever mentality to the starting pitcher role — allows him to play the two fastballs and the two breaking balls off each other in what looks to be a veteran manner.

Well, technically he is a veteran at 28. But it looks like his major-league story is just beginning. He may not have elite starter upside, but he has the tools to be a mid-rotation asset for the Braves.“
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Holmes is gonna be our RH matzek in the playoffs
 
FG did a piece on SS and his success and how his metrics show how good he has been even though Era etc haven’t.
 
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