Yea I can’t recall a time Olson did that on a ball that wasn’t clearly crushed. It’s also a gamble for the hitter, so you’d better be right.
Yes every big homerun hitter in the league does it but they’re usually long gone. If it’s close, you have to run
Clearly big baseball journalism is trying to tank any sort of trade value we might have in Ozuna right now
Surprised they gave up in Soroka this quickly but he didn't look great in Gwinnett. Hopefully he figures it out before the playoffs.
I wish we could have survived like a month of AJSS in the pen before calling on him to start. I liked the idea of easing him in and think he was needed in the bullpen
That’s a quick hook for Soroka. Not sure much has changed between when we called him up and now - I don’t think anyone thought he was immediately going to pitch like the Soroka of old.
I would have given Soroka one more start before making the change but I suppose you don’t want AJSS sitting in the bullpen if you feel pretty certain this was inevitable. If you did that you’d need to stretch him back out somehow.
The “it’s easier to break someone into the big leagues in a bullpen” logic also went out the window. Just all seems a little panicked from a pretty deliberate organization.
Little surprised on Michael because after this Mets series, the schedule really lightens up from a SOS standpoint -- opponents post-Mets to the ASB are Nats, Tigers, Rockies, Phillies, Reds, Twins, Marlins, Guardians, Rays. But Soroka was also more walks than strikeouts, FIP near 9 and really poor command within the zone yesterday so I get it.
Munoz has been elite the past month. Sub 1.00 era. Plus plus 4 seam fastball that’s an easy 98-99 with a nice breaking pitch.
So if the plan for AJSS is to start one day this weekend, is there any chance we see him out of the bullpen in the Mets series?
fine with not starting only for it to start pouring and probably lose bryce. shouldn’t be much longer now
Just announced first pitch at 9. Still zero rain has fallen since the gates opened Bryce is out warming up fwiw
The Braves have scheduled random rain delays to claw back some concession money they lost due to the pitch clock
Gotta question whether or not BryAce murdered Allard’s oblique at this point. I hate him for it, but I also love that quality about him.