PLAYOFFS?!?!?

[Heyward]

Going to be really interesting to see whether they choose to exercise Kimbrel's option to use him as a setup guy again - particularly since that experiment has gone so terribly. Sure is an awful lot of money to tie up in two RPs - even for a big-market club.

Not expecting AA to chase him by any stretch, but if Chicago doesn't keep him Martin and Tomlin coming off the books gets you halfway to what he would have made and Dayton and Camargo could be released to pay a chunk of Jackson and Matzek's raises. You could use the money they gave Smyly this season to cover the increases for Fried and Dansby. If he'd take a reasonable 2 year deal to "come back home" to finish things out, the pen is all but "fixed". Smith becomes the 8th inning guy, Jackson and Matzek handle the 7th, some combination of Rodriguez/Minter/Webb/Lee/potentially Diaz take the middle innings, and Touki replaces Tomlin since he'll be out of options.

Considering AA didnt go for Kimbrel when our pen was in awful shape, dont see why he would now if he was available.

 

[Southcack77]

God damn, dude. He has a .333 careee OBP. Take the L.

Yeah but that sucks.

He's an awful player and it does nothing but please me that he's never been acquired by Atlanta despite you boys drooling over him.

 

[Heyward]

Dodgers even it up or Giants go up 2-0?

 

[Heyward]

Angel Hernandez masterclass tonight.

 

[goldfly]

was hoping Giants would sweep so our game 4 would move to 8pm

oh well

 

[Heyward]

was hoping Giants would sweep so our game 4 would move to 8pm

oh well

Giants winning last night wouldnt have had any effect on our game. They play in the late time slot regardless. We need the Astros to win today to have our game moved up to 4.

 

[CyYoung31]

Giants winning last night wouldnt have had any effect on our game. They play in the late time slot regardless. We need the Astros to win today to have our game moved up to 4.

It would have moved our game 4 to 8 pm if the Giants swept.

 

[Heyward]

It would have moved our game 4 to 8 pm if the Giants swept.

Yeah i just saw that, im cool with a 4 start if the Stros can sweep though.

 

[clvclv]

Considering AA didnt go for Kimbrel when our pen was in awful shape, dont see why he would now if he was available.

I said I don't expect Alex to chase him, but I do expect him to look for a RH Closer option on a short-term deal to either split 9th inning duties with Smith OR bump Smith into the 8th inning altogether. Money doesn't appear to be an issue, and there are going to be a handful of options available who would fit that bill - Kimbrel, Jansen, Iglesias, Rosenthal, Ottavino, Joe Kelly, Kirby Yates, Corey Knebel, Mychal Givens, Melancon, Kennedy.

 

[Heyward]

Rays might be in trouble.

 

[WaitingFor2017]

Braves-Brewers is the only series to not get at least one primetime game (unless LA-SF ends in 4 and Braves-Brewers go to a 5th game).

They could've played LA-SF at 4 pm yesterday and had our game at 8.

 

[ixiXSolidXixi]

Braves-Brewers is the only series to not get at least one primetime game (unless LA-SF ends in 4 and Braves-Brewers go to a 5th game).

They could've played LA-SF at 4 pm yesterday and had our game at 8.

Braves don’t get any respect anything new here?

 

[CyYoung31]

I think the Rays might just gotten screwed.

 

[Heyward]

Yeah, he was safe.

 

[Heyward]

Brutal break for TB. If they lose this game, b/c of that. Damn.

 

[CyYoung31]

The Rays got absolutely ****ed. That’s bull****. What if Renfroe had done that on purpose?

 

[CrimsonCowboy]

Rays got jobbed

 

[Garmel]

Gotta be a rule change for that in the future.

 

[CyYoung31]

Of course.

 

[Heyward]

Of course they lose in the next inning.