Atlanta Braves News

[GT_EE78]

Braves/Indians on ESPN tonight 7:08 pm
TEAM STATS

Braves
10-10
.259
AVG
27
HR
103
R
4.73
ERA

Indians
12-8
.209
AVG
14
HR
78
R
3.47
ERA

 

[CINCYMETJACKET]

This feels sillier by the day for me. Are we just gonna yo-yo our staff up and down all season every time they don't dominate? Touki had a bad showing so we send him back down? He saved our *** the other day with 6 innings of clinical work. He's one of the best we have, keep him up and let him get better.

Who's running this sh*tshow?

I suspect that this is a roster decision to bring in more pitching for today after a lot of bullpen innings yesterday. Toussaint wouldn't be available to pitch again for a few days, he has options, and the Braves need pitchers for today. I imagine that he'll be back up when he's eligible to be called back up.

 

[THWG]

HAHA. Right now he is a strike out machine; but "drawing great walks" is the braves narrative. Would have been great to spend all our FA money on positions of need

You want to revise this statement?

 

[Buzzbomb]

still don't like him.

Me too, buddy!
Although if we can get E$PN to televise our games every Sunday night, let Donaldson play!!

 

[sidewalkGTfan]

Let’s see if the Braves can hold on to this lead. Fried needs to come out throwing strikes.

 

[GT_EE78]

Let’s see if the Braves can hold on to this lead. Fried needs to come out throwing strikes.

well, 3 walks in 3 inn is enough to keep nervous, need to get this lead up from 8-0 into double digits just to allow more margin for our bullpen.

 

[herb]

I guess the Braves didn’t take too lightly to Bauer’s statements after the game

 

[Buzzbomb]

Dear Alex;
Please do not trade Max Fried, under any circumstances. No, not even for a proven reliever. Keep Reggie Smith on the payroll. He was a good hire this Spring, because Maxie has known him since being a youngster at his camps. Yes, spend some money? Sooner than later. We are challenging for the lead in the division as we go past the 1/8th part of the season now, in case your calendar fell off the wall with the Liberty Media logo on it.

Leave some seats behind the plate for my friend, Jake. Tell Josh that Milwaukee is charting his at bats, and I’m sorry for bad mouthing Donaldson and the Bullpen for most of the first 20 games. Can you send Mike a password that he can remember, so we can hear from him again, before the relief pitchers go up and down in the masses or GT’s opener with Clempson? Possibly he will remember a passcode like “Go Braves, starters all go nine.”

Thanks,
BuzzB.(your buddy, win or win).

 

[kg01]

Quick @Milwaukee , say you "wish kg never wins the lottery."

'Cause apparently you got some sorta reveese-juju going on since poor-mouthin this Donaldson cat.

 

[Buzzbomb]

Maybe @Milwaukee will try it on the ‘Pen too? Can’t hurt, can it? Wow, “A Star (Pitcher) Was Born,” the newest version of an old classic with Max Fried as the leading man-and the relievers almost self-destructed with a double digit lead when they entered in an 11-1 game.

Gas Can Alley is in Madison, Wisconsin. We have our own Gas Can’s located in the back half of professional baseball games in Atl., which @Milwaukee is well aware of.

 

[GTJake]

Over an incredible high/low weekend of Braves baseball, the most amazing thing for me was Shane Carle pitching 3-2/3 innings of scoreless baseball in Game 2 ...
After Parsons bullpen meltdown in Game 1, I was thinking Touki was going to shut them down, that didn't happen, but Carle turned out to be the unlikely bullpen hero !
In today's AJC, Smoltz is still pining for Kimbrel and nothing I have seen has changed my mind ...
I don't know what the un-likeability is of Donaldson, maybe getting off to a slow start or maybe his haircut, but keep hitting like yesterday and I'll learn to love him !!

 

[MWBATL]

I do wonder if Kimbrel is "over the hill". It doesn't take much loss of speed for an elite pitcher to suddenly become a very ordinary pitcher.

 

[sidewalkGTfan]

The Yanks officially released Gio Gonzalez today. I'm wondering if the Braves should kick the tires on him. We could use a veteran to go with all of the young guys we keep throwing out there.

 

[GTJake]

The Yanks officially released Gio Gonzalez today. I'm wondering if the Braves should kick the tires on him. We could use a veteran to go with all of the young guys we keep throwing out there.

That's the other thing with Kimbrel, even if he's lost a little, I think we need the veteran arm, he'd be a good mentor for AJ Minter and the rest of the young guys ... and he'd still be our best bet as closer !

 

[Buzzbomb]

At the end of the season, Kimbrel was mid-90’s. Typically, throwing strikes. He’s learned to pitch, so I would take my chances(Minter is around 94 mph, and he is our closer right now).

We lost Vizcaino for 2019. Not coming back this year.

 

[sidewalkGTfan]

Jesse Biddle has turned into a walk machine out of the pen.

 

[GTJake]

Jesse Biddle has turned into a walk machine out of the pen.

Yes, I couldn't believe after his wild pitch to move the runners to second and third, Snitker intentionally walked the next batter !!
I know it's "the book" to load the bases with less than two out so you have an out at any base and a potential double-play scenario ... but Biddle hasn't pitched well and has been a walk machine !!
... and ends up walking in the winning run.
FYI, AJC article says Folty will be back in the rotation Saturday.

 

[kg01]

Hey, one-a y'all do a wellness check on @YellowJacketFan2018 aka MikeJ.

*knock* *knock*

MikeJ? You forget your password again? Wake up, bro.

But seriously, has anyone seen him lately?

 

[panther42]

I am going to the Braves game this Friday (I know I will be missing the Spring Game), and wanted to know how early I need to have the kids there in order to get a bobble head. I think the first 15000 get one, and gates open 2 hours before first pitch. If anyone has any experience, or tips please let me know.

 

[GTJake]

Good quality start by Soroka last night ! But the best stat for me was out of the bullpen ... Winkler, 2K's - 0 BB's and Minter, 1K-0BB's.