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Braves and Marlins, Game 1
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Sorry crew. I don’t have time to do a proper game thread, so chat it up right here.
Use code “Journal” for a 5% discount.
The rare first inning cycle by the Marlins off of Elder.
Acuna leads the world in OBP at this point. .417 on base pretty good.
And Acuna goes first to home on a soft line drive up the middle. What the heck is that?
Doesn’t look like Brad Hand should pitch in meaningful games
Or have that seven million option picked up for next year
Brad Hand is garbage.
What is the opposite of a Grybo, where you come on with nobody on and 2 outs and somehow end up giving up 3?
Brad Hand won us a one-run game in Philadelphia by not allowing the Manfred Man to score in the 10th. I mean, I know that we’ve firmly established that any good a bullpen member does should be ignored and any bad should mean automatic DFA, so I don’t even know why I’m saying this…
It’s true, but it should be noted that even the worst major league pitchers get batters out 70% of the time.
Not exactly. Of the 50 pitchers who are qualified for the ERA title, so probably not the worst pitchers, only 23 of them have allowed OBPs below .301, i.e., have gotten out 70% of the batters they’ve faced. (None of them have allowed batting averages quite as high as .300, but I’m sure some decent relievers having poor years have.) Charlie Morton has allowed a .338 OBP, though he’s made up for it with a better-than-average slugging percentage allowed.
Brad Handed the game to the Marlins.
Braves dealt a bad Hand
Yeah, he has games like that. There’s a reason he was so available at the deadline. We needed more arms. He’s about the best lefty we could’ve gotten for Alec Barger, I’d guess.
He also has games like he had in Philly. He’s bullpen depth. He’s clearly behind Iglesias, Jimenez, Johnson, and Yates on the depth chart.
Any game the Marlins win by getting two home runs from Arraez is pretty fluky, anyway.
Shanah tovah, y’all!
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