#Braves Wisler tied ATL franchise mark with 4 straight starts at least 6 R allowed (M. Minor '12, J. Thompson '06, D. Ruthven '77)
Left center, a little bit to the right of the monster. Landed on that patio area for the condos. It was a bomb.
Gwinnett Rob Whalen, SP: 6.0IP 4H 1R 3BB 8K, 1.93 ERA Got to watch this one in person and Whalen was dynamic through 5 keeping batters off balance and not allowing any real solid contact. He worked between 82-92 and was throwing his full repertoire for strikes. It wasn’t until the 6th when he had a small hiccup allowing a single by the lead off hitter who then scored on a Jose Osuna double - the hardest hit ball that split the gap between the LF and CF. Batters looked foolish a lot getting blown away by his fastball because of his ability to throw his secondary pitches for strikes. Mississippi Connor Lien, CF: 2-4 2B, HR, 2RBI, .270/.350/.461 Dansby Swanson, SS: 1-4 RBI, R, .260/.338/.406 Dustin Peterson, LF: 2-3 2(2B), RBI, BB, .296/.355/.450 Manny Banuelos, SP: 5.0IP 6H 3ER 3BB 6K, 5.21 ERA Manny Banuelos added another one of his solid not spectacular outings, surrendering 3 runs over 5. It was Manny’s 5th straight outing of 3 earned runs or less across AAA and AA. He walked 3 more, and now has 24 walks in his last 10 games, and is sporting an unfortunate 1.82 WHIP in 12 games this season. Akeel Morris has hit a bit of a rough patch as he allowed his 5th run in his last 6 games. Of those 11 hits 5 were extra base-hits including 2 more doubles for Dustin Peterson who now has 32(!!!) doubles on the season. Dustin has 12 doubles in 25 games in July. Connor Lien hit his second homer of the season, and had a double in his first multi-hit game since July 21st. His homer came in the 1st with 1 on to put Mississippi up 2-0. It was also the first game since July 15th that Lien did not strike out. That said he’s still sporting a 119 wRC+ thanks to a 10% walk rate, and .153 ISO. Rome Austin Riley, 3B: 2-5, 2B, HR, RBI, .269/.314/.443 Justin Ellison, RF: 2-4 HR, RBI, R, .240/.299/.367 Kolby Allard, SP: 6.0IP 6H 5ER 4BB 5K, 7.04 ERA Rough start for Kolby Allard who surrendered 2 runs in the 1st, 1 run in the 2nd, and 2 more runs in the 6th. After Rome was retired 1-2-3 in the first Allard walked the lead off hitter Basabe, allowed a single to Ockimey, a double to Chavis whic scored Basabe, and a sacrifice fly by Washington which scored Ockimey to put the Drive up 2-0. He surrendered a third run in the second inning after two singles by Nick Lovullo, and Jeremy Rivera. A wild pitch allowed the runners to move up a base, and Lovullo scored on a sacrifice fly. Rome lessened the gap to a 1 run lead after Austin Riley, and Justin Ellison went back-to-back in the 6th. It was Austin’s 10th homer of the season and his 4th homer in his last 11 games. Allard took back to the mound and after getting the first two hitters out walked Austin Rei, and then allowed the deciding homerun to Trent Kemp to extend the lead to 5-2. GCL Derian Cruz, SS: 1-4, RBI, .309/.336/.445 Cristian Pache, CF: 1-4, R, .284/.327/.382
Whalen's earned a shot in the bigs this year. That first Kelly Johnson deal might be one of our better trades, despite not getting the same attention as the others.
Jeff Passan: Sign that the trade market has officially gotten out of hand: Jeremy Hellickson may well fetch at least three, and perhaps four, prospects. I really think we are making a mistake holding onto Julio right now. With all the arms we've built up for the future, this is the time to strike and deal Julio when we could get a crazy return. I wish Coppy would stop talking himself into corners by saying things like we aren't trading him.
Supposedly a Jim Johnson trade is close. No specifics on who is coming back, or even what team is involved.
Ĵ.P. @Jaypers413 Ian Anderson's GCL line - 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 K Kyle Tait @HearKyleTait Lucas Sims with 6 shutout IP last night, now 13.1 consecutive shutout innings. Final line: 6.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K
Today's Knuckleball @KnuckleballFRS 2h2 hours ago #Braves and #Rangers believed to have talked to the #Yankees about Brian McCann, @JonHeyman reports: Joel Sherman @Joelsherman1 46m46 minutes ago Manhattan, NY As @JonHeyman reported #Yankees have had McCann out on market, and #Braves have some interest in reunion, but there are complications (cont) Joel Sherman @Joelsherman1 45m45 minutes ago Manhattan, NY 1. McCann has full no-trade but does still live in Atl in offseason. 2. #Braves want #Yankees to eat some of 2-$34M left after '16 (cont) Joel Sherman @Joelsherman1 46m46 minutes ago Manhattan, NY #Yankees current mode is done eating $$. 3. #Braves looking to get him for minimum package, NYY wants real prospects back David O'Brien @DOBrienAJC 44m44 minutes ago Unless #Yankees ate considerable amount of BMac's salary, #Braves would rather pay a FA (Ramos? Wieters?) and not give up prospects.
I like BMac but he probably doesn't have too much tread left on the tires. I'm ok with him back at minimal return to the Yankees but it sounds like that's not going to happen.
Law says Kemp for Olivera deal is close. There's 20 homeruns for left field. Hopefully we don't have to pay him much.
Sounds like we are sending Oliver and 30 million over for years and getting Kemp for 3/55.5. Basically paying kemp 8.5 over the next three years. That's not bad imo.
dont we owe him like 28 million from 2017-2020 anyway? So we are sending away a shitstorm for basically nothing and getting back an OF who is putting up some good numbers this year
Kemp is a positive WAR player offensively and we are getting him at a below market price. He's got 23 bombs this year in an extreme pitchers park. I think Coppy killed this deal.
His defense negates nearly all of that value. He's got power, but barely walks, strikes out a ton. Basically a platoon bat.
I'm hoping he's defense improves at least a little playing away from Petco. I think he's as good or better than the free agent options next year and we are probably going to be paying him less than we would have to pay someone else.
we desperately need that power though, we arent the '27 yankees here. Hopefully the new park helps out hitters like him and freddie. Plus we dont have to think about that faggot olivera anymore which i see as the main positive to this
gondeee @gondeee 48s48 seconds ago Kemp's OPS this year (.774), in a down year for him, would be 2nd-highest on Braves behind Free (.885).
I'm all for getting rid of Hector, trust me. I'm just not sure paying Kemp (who is a shell of his former self) ~$8M a year until 2019 is all that great.
I also think getting legitimate players that people/fans know heading into the new park has something to do with this too, jmo last month he's picked it up as well. .877 OPS, 16 runs, 7 homers, 14 XBH, .271 avg
In non-trades of shitty player news, 1st round pick Ian Anderson was 93-97 mph in four innings of work in the GCL. 1 H, 6 K.
Not sure why San Diego would want him. He has shown nothing so far in the bigs (i know small sample size) and he's also 31
The homers are great, but the shitty defense, lack of on-base skills, and abundance of strikeouts is a lot to put up with for some bombs.
Since June 1, Kemp is hitting .296/.333/.513 with 13 doubles, 10 homers and 36 RBI in 48 games. #Braves I think that's worth 5 million a year.
Ender and Mallex are elite defenders who will combine for <10 HRs. I'm OK sacrificing some defense out there for ~25 HR and 100 rbi
Where are you seeing this? He's making $21.75m a year and the Dodgers are picking $3.5m of that. That's still $18.25m per year. I can't imagine the Padres are picking up $10m a year AND taking Olivera. Olivera is owed 4/46 but the Dodgers are picking up 18m of that.