Ya win one. Ya lose one. It’s hardly worth being upset about as Kyle Wright got back on the mound and took another step toward being playoff ready. At this point, it’s hard to see what role Kyle would play in the postseason, especially considering it’s already 9/12 and that likely means he gets, at the most, 3 more starts before the postseason. Hopefully he can find his release point and get back to painting like he did last year.
Jesse Chavez and Ehire Adrianza Nearing Returns
Jesse Chavez and Ehire Adrianza begin rehab assignments in Gwinnett tonight. It’ll be the first game Chavez has played in since his injury on June 14th. Adrianza has been playing in Rome a little over a week with good results and he’s going to be joining Chavez in Gwinnett.
Braves Going to Have Some 40-Man Work this Offseason
As of right now, the Braves have 50 men on their 40-man roster due to 10 players being on the 60-day IL. Those players are Kolby Allard, Nick Anderson, Jesse Chavez, Yonny Chirinos, Daysbel Hernandez, Tyler Matzek, Michael Soroka, Huascar Ynoa, Ehire Adrianza, and Sam Hilliard. My guess is Allard, Anderson, Yonny, Ehire, and Hilliard find homes elsewhere, the Braves signed Chavez back on an MiLB deal (with intention of selecting his contract before the season begins), but that still leaves a ton of players. I’m sure it will work out like it always does, but something to keep an eye on.
Braves Lineup
- Ronald Acuna Jr.
- Ozzie Albies
- Austin Riley
- Matt Olson
- Marcell Ozuna
- Travis D’Arnaud
- Eddie Rosario
- Orlando Arcia
- Michael Harris II
Goodness. Zack Wheeler typically has our number. Instead, they hung three homers on him in the blink of an eye and Ronald’s is one of his patented morale-destroyers. He’s like Pete Maravich before the 3-point line – he hits it so far it oughta be worth more.
To continue the discussion from the previous post, Ronald’s SB are fun, but .333/.415/.587 accounts for a lot more of his value.
I like the morale-destroyer concept. I suppose it would be a combination of situation and distance, but the ones that spring to mind, all in the postseason, are Soler, Bautista, and going back a few years, Kirk Gibson off Eckersley and Brett off Gossage. I suppose Mazeroski and Joe Carter’s WS walkoffs were big too, but I don’t remember any of them being emphatically crushed, and morale destruction may not matter as much when the season ends on the HR.
I know he’s been mostly decent, but giving up Malloy for one year of Jimenez was not a good trade by AA.
I’ll disagree. Good middle relievers are not easy to come by, and depth in good middle relievers is awfully hard. Malloy is the definition of surplus talent. I wish him well and hope he becomes a perennial 25-homer guy in the majors, but he couldn’t crack this lineup and the Malloy for Jimenez trade absolutely embodies the principle of trading from organizational surplus to address needs in other part of the lineup.
Jimenez was pretty shaky early on. Since then, tonight notwithstanding, he’s been quite good. The occasional stinker will happen. But regardless, I think that the process was right. Trading B- prospects for middle relief is one of AA’s favorite things to do, and it’s hard to argue with the results: he traded Travis Demeritte and Joey Wentz for Shane Greene; Bryce Wilson and Ricky Devito for Richard Rodriguez; Kolby Allard for Chris Martin (then reacquired Allard for Jake Odorizzi); Sean Newcomb for Jesse Chavez; Tucker Davidson and Chavez for Raisel Iglesias (then reacquired Chavez off waivers); and, of course, Justyn-Henry Malloy for Joe Jimenez.
I don’t think he undervalued a single one of the guys he let go; indeed, he was often able to reacquire them for a song. This is not exactly Wainwright for Drew. Jimenez is a pretty good 7th-inning guy, and on a team with designs on October, that’s one of the more important spots to fill on the entire roster.
I feel Malloy would be ready to take over for Rosario next year.
And our bullpen has an excess of bodies that will have to be trimmed for the playoffs….depth is good, but I didn’t see the pressing need at the time.
I do understand and respect you points, though.
If Malloy flounders in the majors, well, consider me a big dummy.
At what point is it OK to worry about this bullpen? The Night Shift, it isn’t.
Jimenez thinks 96 down the middle is the right choice. This bullpen is going to be our undoing in the playoffs. These guys are not the night shift
Baaaaaarf.
Walking the nine-hole hitter is brutal in a one-run game bottom of 8. It means Bryce is gonna get a swing off aight in the ninth.
I love TDA but he really is becoming a bit of a liability, especially on defense. He struggles to control the running game and seems to give up a lot wild pitches that seem to be blockable
Can’t let Iglesias pitch to Harper next inning, unless he doesn’t rep the typing run.
Harper is 5 for 8 vs. Iglesias, w/ 4 HRs in his last 5 ABs (including the tying shot yesterday).
Walk him, if nec.
Yeah… my confidence level is not high that Iglesias can shut the door here against 2-3-4.
This seems like an inevitable implosion. Trying to remember baseball is random and things can turn just as easily as they seem inevitable
Well…
Iglesias will prevent this team from winning it all.
Among others
Maybe, but if the rest of the bullpen stopped giving away the large leads, this would be a non issue
Yeesh.
Lol this bullpen is a joke
I just keep telling myself that none of these games matter.
Our relievers can’t seem to throw strikes when they need to. Iglesias put himself in a bad position by missing badly in pitcher’s counts, throwing non-competitive pitches. Tonkin came in with a 5-run lead and walked 2 batters right away. Jimenez also felt he had to lay one in there after missing badly on multiple pitches. Contrast with Alvarado who came in painting at 100.
Not what I expected, but… OK, let’s win this…
Too much negativity here tonight…. We’re having fun! Free baseball! Manfred Men! Forrest Wall!
Hahaha. Manfred Men 😂😂😂
TDA is getting on my nerves….sub .100 BA in his last 15 games, and now he ruins an easy SB from Wall.
Not that Murphy has been lighting it up either.
Right now, Travis’s job is to keep Murphy’s knees rested for October.
Lol Hand. Fortunately anything can happen in baseball.
Brad Hand…the lefty McHugh to save the day.
Always good to go with a guy that pitches to contact instead of strikeouts with the extra inning rules.
Edit- and then Hand strikes out Marsh and gets Rojas…didn’t see that coming. A win is a win though
Had em all the way!!!
There it is! Baseball is a crazy game! All the pessimism and air of inevitability of collapse and we pulled it out. And so glad it happened to the Phils.
And what if I’d told you Iglesias would blow games 1 and 3 in this series? I would imagine we’d be swept.
Ho hum. Another routine win
We never lose a game when Forrest Wall is the DH.
Tonight is on Jimenez. But I wish Snit would pay attention to history. All three guys at the top of the Phillies lineup had good results against Iglesias and all got on base tonight. Iglesias and Jimenez gave up HRs yesterday too.
But like I said yesterday with Jimenez, Minter, Pierce, Yates, and Hand, we have several guys with closing experience. Yesterday, it was Yates. Today Hand. The bullpen will be OK, but I think Snit needs to make better choices instead of trying to always go with the “standard”. We never should have had to go to extras with a 5-run lead.
I really think both Tonkin and Minter were great and Jimenez and Iglesias were bad. But it was predictable based upon historical results.
I really like this Braves team that wins extra inning games. Makes me hate the ghost runner a little bit less.
Rough loss for the Phils, actually.
So, as Mel Allen might say, “How about that?”
I don’t get all the complaining about Iglesias. He was the winning pitcher both yesterday afternoon and tonight!
I thought pitcher “wins” were statistically meaningless. Considering those “wins” came with two blown saves, I think the complaints are legitimate. I think we need to be more matchup oriented than standardized roles.
Iglesias sure knows how to win!
Recap will be in the morning.
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Thanks for this bit of positivity.
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