The Atlanta Braves

[AV_12]

Stack Ronnie and Ozzie!!!

 

[AV_12]

One has a legit back of the baseball card and one does not.

Doesn’t fit the 2 week all star narrative

 

[zjcvols]

Wake me up when Dan’s career wRC+ comes close to league average

not selected stretches

His xwOBA has been above league average since 2019

 

[zjcvols]

(Not including today)

Over his last 1,025 PA is wRC+ is 99 since 2019

 

[TBrown]

His xwOBA has been above league average since 2019

xStats only matter for 2019 Max Fried. Nothing else. Don’t you know?

 

[TBrown]

ump

 

[Florida Stanley]

His xwOBA has been above league average since 2019

What’s his and what is League average?

 

[TBrown]

Carving these chumps up

 

[TBrown]

Great day to be ALIVE

 

[Florida Stanley]

.248/.318/.400

this is ALL that matters

 

[Florida Stanley]

Career .718 OPS and 87 OPS+
these are facts

 

[Florida Stanley]

I’m old enough to remember when Z swore by OPS+

guess it doesn’t find the #narrative

 

[05_never_again]

Why is Smith entering in a 5 run game?

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Why is Smith entering in a 5 run game?

I thought that as well. Normally I wouldnt care, but the Dodgers are coming to town tomorrow, so I dont understand it.

 

[TBrown]

Why is Smith entering in a 5 run game?

Gotta shut the door

 

[05_never_again]

Tomlin is 3-0 lol

 

[zjcvols]

Career .718 OPS and 87 OPS+
these are facts

Sure...in a way. He’s not the same player of 2017/2018 though, which shows in a variety of categories.

Judging Dans by his 2018 stats when he’s clearly a better ball player in 2021 really doesn’t mean anything

 

[zjcvols]

What’s his and what is League average?

Usually league average is around .320-.325. Dans the last three years is .350, .352 and (before today) .331

 

[zjcvols]

 

[zjcvols]

I still can’t believe AA knew he had Bryse, Ynoa and Tucker and still thought Smyly deserved $11M

 

[TBrown]

Austin Meadows and Tyler Glasnow for Chris Archer

 

[TBrown]

Do you think the Rays felt bad?

 

[zjcvols]

So the Braves have made six “significant investments”* monetarily or deadline trade for starters since AA took over.

*Anibal was a minor league FA. Great job by AA but we didn’t sign him for anything or trade for him. He was worth 3.1 WAR for 136.2 innings for $1M.

bWAR
Gausman- 0.2 in 139.2 innings (11.2M)
Kuechel- 2.2 in 112.2 innings (13M)
Hamels- -.1 in 3.1 innings (6.67M)- prorated
Milone- -0.6 in 9.2 innings (105K)
Morton- 0.7 in 57 innings ($5M)- prorated
Smyly- -0.7 in 46.2 innings (3.67M)- prorated

So the Braves have added 1.7 WAR with FA starting pitchers or deadline acquisitions for a total of...$39.65M!!!

 

[Florida Stanley]

Sure...in a way. He’s not the same player of 2017/2018 though, which shows in a variety of categories.

Judging Dans by his 2018 stats when he’s clearly a better ball player in 2021 really doesn’t mean anything

This is absolutely ridiculous. What about all the years before 2018? And I’d say most player’s numbers got better when they’re hitting laced balls.

 

[05_never_again]

Damn. When you look back on Cole Hamels's entire career, the dude seems to be totally overrated.

He got a lot of media attention, but he was only a 4x All-Star. Career WHIP of almost 1.20. Finished in the top 8 of Cy Young voting 4 times in 15 seasons. He did have a nice (not incredible, but nice) year in 2008 when they won the WS and he was WS MVP, and it's like everybody thought he was an elite pitcher forever after that.