Time to shelve the social circle for sport day. So much sport for us to enjoy. Let’s enjoy sport together.
You'd think if he were getting tired as the season goes on, the ball would sink more. Not sure what's going on.
Remember like two weeks who when everyone was like wtf why is Joyce starting and hitting fifth wtf I remember
remember like two days ago when you were saying ace can only pitch well against the marlins i remember
I like that Snit said fuck it and went full bomb squad late in the game to give guys the rest of the day off. They earned it after basically sealing the division this weekend.
Bowman did an updated projected playoff roster yesterday. Catchers (2): Brian McCann, Tyler Flowers Instead of carrying three catchers, it would seemingly be more valuable to carry an additional reliever or position player. McCann will likely start each of the postseason games, even when the Braves are pitted against a left-handed starter. Flowers’ .555 OPS against lefties doesn’t inspire enough confidence to put him in the lineup against a southpaw. Infielders (6): Freddie Freeman, Ozzie Albies, Dansby Swanson, Josh Donaldson, Johan Camargo, Charlie Culberson Camargo has shown enough during his first week back at the Major League level to believe he would be a better option than Adeiny Hechavarria. Culberson was going to be part of this list even before he snapped a 0-for-26 skid with a homer in the ninth inning of Sunday’s loss to the Nationals. The other options would be to carry outfielder Rafael Ortega or an additional pitcher. Outfielders (6): Ronald Acuña Jr., Nick Markakis, Austin Riley, Matt Joyce, Billy Hamilton, Adam Duvall Inciarte is ahead of schedule, but the Braves are not going to rush him back from the hamstring strain that he sustained on Aug. 16. The Gold Glove Award-winning outfielder might be an option beyond the NL Division Series. But for now, we’ll project a mix of six outfielders that will include Riley and Duvall, who both could prove valuable against left-handed pitchers. Rotation (4): Mike Soroka, Dallas Keuchel, Max Fried, Julio Teheran This is the one group that matches last week’s projection. The only current question will be whether it makes sense to put Fried and Keuchel back to back in the rotation. With that being said, sending left-handers (Hyun-Jin Ryu and Clayton Kershaw) to the mound for the first two games of last year’s NLDS certainly didn’t hurt the Dodgers. Bullpen (7): Mark Melancon, Shane Greene, Chris Martin, Sean Newcomb, Luke Jackson, Jerry Blevins, Mike Foltynewicz Foltynewicz’s presence will give the Braves a multi-inning option when they are reluctant to send at least a couple of their starters through a lineup for a third time. Jackson’s candidacy has weakened over the past couple weeks. But we have not yet seen enough from Darren O'Day or Patrick Weigel, who is expected to be promoted this week, to give them this spot. Josh Tomlin is another candidate for this spot or the eighth bullpen spot if the Braves choose to carry 12 pitchers.
Chuck has hit better over the entire season and he's capable of playing more positions, which is more valuable than just being able to play shortstop very well.
To me, I think the better question is would you rather have Hech (or Cervelli or anyone really) over one of Riley or Duvall, considering Chuck can capably play both corner OF spots.
I don't think you take Riley and Duvall because either way you have a capable corner OF with a strong arm and some pop in the bat. So I would take Hech over one of them for sure (probably Riley).
chuck will be on the roster. his versatility is too valuable. Hechy is only on the roster if Dansby gets hurt again.
That's my thought as well, though Bowman has both Riley and Duvall on there which doesn't make much sense to me.
Agreed I don't see the point in carrying both Duvall and Riley. They are pretty much the same guy right now except Duvall provides better defense.
Is he though? Tyler Flowers: 3 errors and 16 PB in 617 innings (.0308 E+PB/inning), 13.0 framing runs, 3 DRS Francisco Cervelli: 2 errors and 6 PB in 279.1 innings (.0286 E+PB/inning), 0.3 framing runs, 1 DRS Brian McCann: 1 error and 7 PB in 613.0 innings (.0130 E+PB/inning), 3.4 framing runs, -2 DRS
How is framing calculated? I'm having a real tough time accepting it as a legitimate stat because so many variables are involved.