March 26, 20187 yr Author Oh yeah, we officially signed Ryan Flaherty and Peter Bourjous. Championship, mother fuckers!
March 26, 20187 yr Ozzie Albies seems like he'll be good. And then Acuna will come up soon. Freeman is a stud. Inciarte is solid. ATL won't be good this year, but there is reason to watch.
March 26, 20187 yr I think we can flirt with .500 if Newcomb can throw strikes. Teharan is having a great spring and usually follows up shitty years with good ones, so he’s due. Folty and McCarthy should be serviceable with a couple young guys waiting in the wings for 5th spot, so Newcomb being a sub-3.50 ERA guy is key to us being around .500. The lineup should be fine...especially when Acuna comes up. Could be really good if Swanson lives up to his #1 pick status (I’ll take a .280, 15-20 homer guy). I’m expecting Albies to have a big year.
March 26, 20187 yr Author 29 minutes ago, EZ$ said: I think we can flirt with .500 if Newcomb can throw strikes. Newcomb's WHIP and walks per nine inning rate has gone up every step up the ladder he's gone in his career. I'm not holding my breath that suddenly he becomes someone who throws strikes consistently.
March 26, 20187 yr 7 hours ago, ATLLonghorn said: Oh yeah, we officially signed Ryan Flaherty and Peter Bourjous. Championship, mother fuckers! Talking Chop wrote a WHOLE lot of words about these two, but the last paragraph sums it up best. Ryan Flaherty and Peter Bourjos aren’t going to make the team worse but this feels like adding green food coloring dye to a batch of broccoli. You’re not really adding anything that isn’t already there, but you aren’t going to make the broccoli taste worse, either. https://www.talkingchop.com/2018/3/26/17165176/atlanta-braves-sign-peter-bourjos-ryan-flaherty-opening-day-2018
March 29, 20187 yr Ok, I no longer think we’ll be around .500. Much like my high expectations for the Tom Herman era....and then Maryland happened.
March 29, 20187 yr for some reason philly takes out nola and freeman immediately makes them pay for it. if not for the bullpen meltdown in the top of the inning, we'd have a ballgame.
March 30, 20187 yr Author Nick Markakis hit 8 home runs and slugged .384. Brian Stinker hits him clean-up. He hits a walk-off home run. It's the very definition of better to be lucky than good. Doesn't matter. 162-0 here we come! (also, thank Gabe Kapler for pulling Nola after 68 pitches for no reason)
March 30, 20187 yr yeah the braves won because kapler pulled nola. i was only half paying attention and even i knew that was stupid at the time.
March 31, 20187 yr Author Breaks tend to even out over the course of the season for most teams. Stinker got lucky with Markakis on opening day. Last night they somehow survived the 10th inning with Bourjous, Shane Carle, Flaherty and Culberson batting without making three outs to get to Inciarte who can actually hit, but he flew out weakly to center to end the game. It's crazy how stuff like that works out.
April 2, 20187 yr Never thought it got worse than Fredi Gonzalez, then somebody decided Gabe Kapler should be a manager. Since they are a Braves rival, I couldn't be happier. Edited April 2, 20187 yr by pacman
April 4, 20187 yr gave the nats their first loss of the season tonight despite falling behind 3-0 in the first inning. have a chance to take another series to start the season tomorrow.
April 4, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, pacman said: Looks to me like this bunch has some fight in them.. It's early in the season and all the games have been at home, but it is nice seeing them hitting the ball well and beating the Nats.
April 5, 20187 yr 20 hours ago, BigOrange1 said: ...oh but they're facing scherzer so that's probably not gonna happen. idiot.
April 5, 20187 yr If Tucker continues to hit...what do you do in the OF when Acuna comes up? Logical choice is to somehow move Markakis, but he’s been swinging the bat well and adds some veteran leadership. I see Tucker being a younger/cheaper Markakis, but with more power (.270, 25+ homers) so certainly don’t want to see him in a platoon or bench role.
April 6, 20187 yr so ozzie albies had never seen snow before taking the field in colorado today. he just homered in his first at bat of the game amongst snow flurries.
April 6, 20187 yr On 4/5/2018 at 1:25 AM, Guest GuestDong said: #1 offense in MLB 4 run first inning today.
April 7, 20187 yr 10 hours ago, GSU&UT said: This is for real right, no regression to the mean later? What if the mean is even better??
April 8, 20187 yr Heading to a Braves game in early June, any recommendations to hit up/eat before the game? Also, looks like plenty of hotels are within walking distance of the stadium just looking at Google maps?
April 8, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Elmer_Fudd said: Heading to a Braves game in early June, any recommendations to hit up/eat before the game? Also, looks like plenty of hotels are within walking distance of the stadium just looking at Google maps? I have yet to make it to the new ballpark, but there are a few restaurants in the Battery.
April 14, 20187 yr Pretty much everyone but Inciarte hitting and we’ll be adding Acuna to the lineup pretty soon (maybe our 2nd best hitter behind Freeman). If we can keep our pitching respectable, .500 maybe easier than I thought because I don’t see the offense dropping off much with the addition of Acuna and Inciarte coming around.
April 14, 20187 yr Yeah, what the fuck happened today? I didn't have it on while the Cubs we're coming back, did Snit make some dumbass decisions or did a bunch of different bullpen guys give up runs?
April 15, 20187 yr http://www.espn.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/46631/how-the-cubs-and-braves-combined-for-best-terrible-inning-ever Weather was absolute garbage.
April 18, 20187 yr 4 hours ago, spystud13 said: Joey Bats signed to a minor league deal to play 3B. Why not?? Only cost $1M (if they call him up) and would be a nice filler until Riley is ready. Maybe we get lucky and he hits 25+ bombs for us??
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