The Atlanta Braves

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AA isn’t shutting anyone down. Doesn’t believe in it. I’m sure they will pick their spots late in the season tho
 
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Cesar Hernandez is hitting .286 with a .714 slug and a .429 iso. Pretty sure I could drop 15 with these juiced balls.
 
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TBrown said:
Pretty dumb stance IMO. Chance of injury conversation aside, performance will likely wane.
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Unless I'm forgetting, which seems to happen more the older I get, I don't remember young pitchers having an innings limit back in the 70's or 80's.

I don't remember Smoltz or Glavine having one either. If they did, I don't recall it.
 
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Im just thinking out loud but was AA in Toronto when they sent Syndergaard to the Mets for Dickey and others. If so that could be part of his hesitation
 
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vols 30 said:
Unless I'm forgetting, which seems to happen more the older I get, I don't remember young pitchers having an innings limit back in the 70's or 80's.

I don't remember Smoltz or Glavine having one either. If they did, I don't recall it.
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They didn't. Which is how you could see a generational pitcher like Dwight Gooden come up and throw something like 800 innings and 30 complete games by the time he was 21 and then never be the same again. Or Mark Fidrych in the 70s, who threw over 20 complete games as a rookie and then pitched maybe 20 games in his career after that. Everybody used to just shrug their shoulders about it and move on.

Cox rode Steve Avery harder than either Smoltz or Glavine in the early 90s and you see how that turned out for him.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
They didn't. Which is how you could see a generational pitcher like Dwight Gooden come up and throw something like 800 innings and 30 complete games by the time he was 21 and then never be the same again. Or Mark Fidrych in the 70s, who threw over 20 complete games as a rookie and then pitched maybe 20 games in his career after that. Everybody used to just shrug their shoulders about it and move on.

Cox rode Steve Avery harder than either Smoltz or Glavine in the early 90s and you see how that turned out for him.
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Smoltz’s arm gave out on him too. He lost five years as a starter because of his TJS.
 
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I read an article about Stephen Strasbourg one time. It was after his TJS. It was mainly talking about the science of pitching mechanics and how the arms works. It was about efficiency of your mechanics related to the stress of your arm and the “W” motion Strasburg had. They did a study of like the last 30 years of pitchers. Greg Maddux was the only pitcher whose efficiency was over 95% of total efficiency of his mechanics.
 
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So now that I have tuesdays and Wednesday’s off I watch mlb central in the morning and I think Lauren Shehadi is my dream woman
 
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