It’s weird seeing Max Fried‘s name beside a record of 3-1 in the month of August. What’s not so weird is the stellar ERA that’s sits aside his name: 1.69. Nice. His enemy number 1, SP for the Pirates Quinn Priester, has a very similar ERA to Fried, but where Fried’s starts with a 1, Priester’s starts with an 8. Yikes. While baseball is wildly unpredictable from game to game, I think it’s safe to say that Vegas is taking the Braves tonight.
Vaughn Grissom Deserves a Promotion
Every time I’m watching MLBTV, they have a quick minute commercial that shows 30 MLB players sporting their team’s hats and I find it curious that MLB chose, of all Braves players, Vaughn Grissom. In Statcast’s “Outs Above Average”, Grissom still ranks as the Braves worst defender with -8 OAA. Pretty extraordinary considering he only played in 19 games. And honestly, the eye test supported the numbers. Grissom looked wonky. Yet, when I browse the Gwinnett Stripers boxscores, or flip to their game during a Braves commercial break, I’ll see Grissom parked at SS and I just don’t understand why.
However, offensively, Grissom is on a mission.
To put these numbers into perspective, one has to understand that it’s not due to a power surge, as Vaughn only has 4 AAA HRs on the year. This kid is walking, singling, doubling, tripling, and limiting strikeouts. As of right now, he doesn’t have a place on the field and the Braves org seems dead-set on him being a SS even when the evidence is staring into their souls that he’s just not cut out for the position long-term. I hope we see Vaughn moonlighting as an OFer very soon because he could be a very welcomed addition to a postseason roster.
Can Vaughn pitch into the fifth inning? That’s what we really need!
I wouldn’t mind seeing him replace Eddie Rosario in left field, but that’s really the only opening I see outside of the starting pitching rotation.
Listening to Francouer’s story about Wash working him out at first base makes me think that was the day that Wash concluded it’s incredibly hard.
I didn’t realize Chirinos pitched again tonight. We make Hayes look like Babe Ruth
Sixth inning at bats for Riley have been terrible lately. Men on second and third tonight, he whiffs. Last week – think it was against the Cubs – he fanned with the bases loaded in the sixth inning in consecutive games. Simply need your three-hole hitter to drive in runs in those situations!
I think the Braves have left Grissom at short to keep from lowering his trade value. There just isn’t any room for him in the major league infield and I don’t think he has the power to play left everyday. I bet he is moved this off-season.
A third inning of McHugh is like hitting on 19.
It’s like Snit keeps him long enough to give up a run
If they don’t overturn this, I hope Snit throws an absolute nutty.
Nice! Outstanding send by Wash with the 2B catching that ball!
Iglesias will ensure this team does not win a World Series. Good enough, he is not.
Whew!
Well, he’s certainly no Will Smith
Are there any lockdown closers any more?
A closer, A closer, my Kingdom for a lockdown closer
Outside of Mo, were there ever? I remember Smoltz having more traffic than I’d have liked. When Kimbrel came up, he couldn’t find the plate, though he figured that out for a few years. Hoffman and Wagner were pretty good, I’ll grant you. And I never saw Joe Page. But I’m going with the null hypothesis on this one.
Recap is up.