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1 hour ago, Born Again Georgian said:

How has this squad been so Jekyll and Hyde all year?  The consistency at which they maintain this is depressingly impressive.  🧐

The Braves never cease to amaze. Such a disappointment. If this isn’t an indictment of Brian Snitker nothing is. Can’t win 2 games in a row. Can’t get above .500. Can’t even get to .500 anymore.

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54 minutes ago, TheTrue7 said:

Haven’t you been saying you weren’t watching until we get over .500? 

That’s right.  I haven’t watched any games this year since we haven’t been over .500 but I still check the game cast occasionally and review the box scores.  I watch the highlights also

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3 hours ago, 007dawg said:

That’s right.  I haven’t watched any games this year since we haven’t been over .500 but I still check the game cast occasionally and review the box scores.  I watch the highlights also

Seems like you’re pretty well vested. May as well watch.

2 hours ago, Born Again Georgian said:

Duvall killing us twice from two different squads. 

Yea.. I never really understood the allure. Granted, he certainly didn’t cost much. :shrug:

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1 hour ago, TheTrue7 said:

Seems like you’re pretty well vested. May as well watch.

Yea.. I never really understood the allure. Granted, he certainly didn’t cost much. :shrug:

Baseball will take second place to football soon regardless, but I hope the Braves are still in contention in a month 

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12 hours ago, falconsd56 said:

He loves the braves and he brings power and defense.....but also a **** ton of strike outs.

 

So you’re saying he’s pretty much Dansby Swanson… He’ll excite you for a day or two then revert back to his ugly self. 

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11 hours ago, 007dawg said:

Baseball will take second place to football soon regardless, but I hope the Braves are still in contention in a month 

I think the Braves will pretty much be right around .500. Not sure about Phillies and Mets

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57 minutes ago, Adam Duvall said:

I think the Braves will pretty much be right around .500. Not sure about Phillies and Mets

We have not had our run yet. I would tell you this about worst case scenario. I think we will run a streak of wins together and end up +10 to .500 ball or so. I also think that will win our division.

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5 minutes ago, JDFIII said:

We have not had our run yet. I would tell you this about worst case scenario. I think we will run a streak of wins together and end up +10 to .500 ball or so. I also think that will win our division.

The next 3 weeks starting with Tuesday’s game is the best time to have it. 
 

at STL, vs Wsh, vs Cin, at Wsh. at Mia, at Bal. 

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2 hours ago, Adam Duvall said:

So you’re saying he’s pretty much Dansby Swanson… He’ll excite you for a day or two then revert back to his ugly self. 

Your Dansby hate is borderline comical at this point. Dans is 13 for his last 39. He had a 7 game stretch before his 0-4 outing yesterday where he was for 10 for his last 26.

"excite you for a day or two"?

Pretty sure you confused him with your boy...

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1 hour ago, brdu4 said:

The next 3 weeks starting with Tuesday’s game is the best time to have it. 
 

at STL, vs Wsh, vs Cin, at Wsh. at Mia, at Bal. 

The Mets also have a BRUTAL 2 week schedule starting August 13th:

3 vs Dodgers

3 at Giants

4 at Dodgers

3 vs Giants

That is 13 straight games vs the top 2 teams in the NL West........and deGrom will be pitching in none of those games.

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33 minutes ago, TheTrue7 said:

Your Dansby hate is borderline comical at this point. Dans is 13 for his last 39. He had a 7 game stretch before his 0-4 outing yesterday where he was for 10 for his last 26.

"excite you for a day or two"?

Pretty sure you confused him with your boy...

It’s not Dansby hate. It’s true he goes on runs where he loses his way and does nothing but strike out. I really like the guy but he’s streaky

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32 minutes ago, TheTrue7 said:

Your Dansby hate is borderline comical at this point. Dans is 13 for his last 39. He had a 7 game stretch before his 0-4 outing yesterday where he was for 10 for his last 26.

"excite you for a day or two"?

Pretty sure you confused him with your boy...

Yeah...Dansby had a fantastic July a .298 average with a cool .944 ops.

Those numbers got bumped up a little bit the last few games of July but even before that he was still hitting around .280 with an .800 ops

... That is a whole month's worth of stats and not just a couple games.

 

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2 minutes ago, Adam Duvall said:

It’s not Dansby hate. It’s true he goes on runs where he loses his way and does nothing but strike out. I really like the guy but he’s streaky

You give him a bit of hate.. outsby? Comparing him to Duvall? 

1 minute ago, falconsd56 said:

Yeah...Dansby had a fantastic July a .298 average with a cool .944 ops.

Those numbers got bumped up a little bit the last few games of July but even before that he was still hitting around .280 with an .800 ops

... That is a whole month's worth of stats and not just a couple games.

 

Ding ding.. 

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The thing with Dansby is that he has extremes.

He has played 4 months this season.... Two of the months are All-Star caliber... near .300 average with .850ish ops with plenty of power and RBI's....plus fantastic defense.

 

The other 2...the exact opposite.

Low average...lots of strike outs....not taking walks..... replacement level player.

He needs to find a way to have a happy medium between those two.

 

 

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4 hours ago, JDFIII said:

We have not had our run yet. I would tell you this about worst case scenario. I think we will run a streak of wins together and end up +10 to .500 ball or so. I also think that will win our division.

Can't have a run when you can't start by winning 2 games in a row.

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1 hour ago, Unknøwn said:

Dansby is frustrating because of those extremes. We all see what he can be, hes a really good hitter when hes on. Hes a really bad hitter when hes cold. He just has to find that consistency. 

I think it's because he gets too homerun happy. Dansby's at his best when he uses the RF gap. But he gets extremely pull/homerun happy and it leads to a crap ton of strikeouts and cold streaks.

I've said it time and time again, I'd gladly rather see Dansby sacrifice a few homeruns at the expense of raising his average 30-40 points. Dansby doesn't have to hit .300 but there's absolutely no reason he shouldn't hit .270-.275. Give me a .275 average with 15 homeruns over a .230 average with 25 homeruns any day.

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9 hours ago, AUTiger7222 said:

I think it's because he gets too homerun happy. Dansby's at his best when he uses the RF gap. But he gets extremely pull/homerun happy and it leads to a crap ton of strikeouts and cold streaks.

I've said it time and time again, I'd gladly rather see Dansby sacrifice a few homeruns at the expense of raising his average 30-40 points. Dansby doesn't have to hit .300 but there's absolutely no reason he shouldn't hit .270-.275. Give me a .275 average with 15 homeruns over a .230 average with 25 homeruns any day.

100% disagree. Swanson never seems home-run happy. He struggles when he tries to hit good breaking balls instead of taking them. He's better when he keeps it simple and hunts fastballs. When he doesn't he gets late on the fastball and he's not good enough to hit good offspeed.

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9 minutes ago, K26dp said:

100% disagree. Swanson never seems home-run happy. He struggles when he tries to hit good breaking balls instead of taking them. He's better when he keeps it simple and hunts fastballs. When he doesn't he gets late on the fastball and he's not good enough to hit good offspeed.

So you don't see him get pull happy?

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