Game Thread: Braves Road Trip vs DBacks and Rockies

[selmaborntidefan]

Kelenic has been optioned and we signed Eddie Rosario and Ian Anderson.

Oh what the hell, let’s just sign Joc Peterson and Charlie Morton and have a 2021 reunion while we are at it. We will finish last, of course, but we can have a reunion every day.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Oh what the hell, let’s just sign Joc Peterson and Charlie Morton and have a 2021 reunion while we are at it. We will finish last, of course, but we can have a reunion every day.

What is Soler doing these days?

 

[selmaborntidefan]

What is Soler doing these days?

DH for the Angels

 

[tusks_n_raider]

I know Kelenic was really bad but, I'm not sure about this move. Rosario was not much better last year than Kelenic has been, and he's only had 4 AB this season. Maybe it works out. Anderson's stat line is pretty bad so far this season and we already have plenty of pitchers on staff that give up a lot of runs.

It’s probably been 35+ years since it felt like we’ve had so many borderline MLB/Minor League players contributing in significant roles.

I get that we have some injury matters to navigate around but my goodness almost our entire roster is flirting with the Mendoza line and our Pitchers have Spot # 5 starter ERAs

We could address these things a bit if our front office didn’t operate like Ebenezer Scrooge before being visited by the 3 ghosts.

 

[BhamToTexas]

Smith-Shawver was recalled today and will start tonight. Ian Anderson designated for assignment.

 

[BhamToTexas]

Latest Injury News:

Spencer Strider - expected return 2nd half of May
Nacho Alvarez - expected return probably June
Ronald Acuna - expected return 1st half of May
Reynaldo Lopez - maybe back for the playoffs but probably out for the season
Joe Jimenez - not return before August and could miss the season

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Well, we better sweep. These guys are far worse than we are. It's like we're the wimpy kid in school - we better still be able to beat up the girl who picks on us.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Well, got a chance to finish April at .500. I don't think any of us thought that would happen after starting 4-13 thru April 16.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Well, got a chance to finish April at .500. I don't think any of us thought that would happen after starting 4-13 thru April 16.

If that one game against the Marlins had not gotten rained out, we would already be there.

 

[tusks_n_raider]

If that one game against the Marlins had not gotten rained out, we would already be there.

I’m dreading playing them again because Acuna will be back and we know what’s on their Pitcher’s minds:

 

[BhamToTexas]

Great outing by Sale today. 10 Ks and 0 BBs.

We need to give him some runs.

 

[BhamToTexas]

Sucks to drop that last one but a 4-2 road trip is still good.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

a chance to get to .500 and of course they lose to the worst team in MLB.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Should have known that talking about it would mean they lose. Oh well, 14-16 after being 4-13 just 14 days ago is not bad.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Fan falls from 21-foot Clemente Wall at PNC Park in Pittsburgh during Cubs-Pirates game | AP News

 

[DzynKingRTR]

and the braves blow yet another chance to get to .500

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Did you watch Snit, the dumbest manager on the planet, pinch hit Rosario for Eli White with the tying run on 1st and 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th. Literally took out the team's best hitter right now for the team's worst. Would White have tied the game or won it, nobody knows but, who in their right mind decides to take the bat out of the hands of your best hitter and place it in your worst.

Snit, that's who.

And yet there will still be people who support him all because the team won the WS in '21. Wake up folks, he's the worst in-game manager in the MLB.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Did you watch Snit, the dumbest manager on the planet, pinch hit Rosario for Eli White with the tying run on 1st and 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th. Literally took out the team's best hitter right now for the team's worst. Would White have tied the game or won it, nobody knows but, who in their right mind decides to take the bat out of the hands of your best hitter and place it in your worst.

Snit, that's who.

And yet there will still be people who support him all because the team won the WS in '21. Wake up folks, he's the worst in-game manager in the MLB.

Btw - can anyone tell me a specific move Snit made in the 2021 post-season that was stellar and really made the difference? We basically kept the games close. It took EIGHT PITCHERS (seven relievers) to win Game 2 of the LCS and get out of Atlanta 2-0. Number 77 almost single-handedly lost Game 3. The Dodgers scored EIGHT RUNS in the 8th inning of games. And the overall score was 28-27 in six games in our favor, pretty evenly matched.

Then in the World Series...okay MAYBE Snit deserves credit for pulling Dillon Lee before we got blown off the mat in Game Four.


But then again who was the one who STARTED Lee in the first place? I thought that was a mistake then, and I still do.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Oh, I agree. I have always said that the 2021 team won the WS in spite of Snit, not because of him. In fact, I think he tried his best to ruin the year for the Braves because he is always making head scratching in-game decisions. He always has. in 2021, the team was talented enough to overcome them.