It was a great day for the Atlanta Braves franchise, who reported 35,792 paid attendance. Chat GPT estimates gross revenue for the day (including the Battery area) as approximately $3.5 million. The Braves close their June schedule with their stock up over 13% for the month. Win, win, win.
The only negative is that some of that gross revenue has to be paid to players, such as Sean Murphy, who hit a far and high 451 foot homer to dead center field to account for the Braves only run, and Spencer Strider, who pitched 7 innings of 5 hit, 2 run ball. Murphy and Strider are relatively expensive, but never fear, with players like Eli White, Stuart Fairchild, and Nick Allen in the starting lineup and barely exceeding the league minimum, that stock price will stay high for as long as fans accept this.
Los The Angels Angeles come to town Tuesday at 7:15 Eastern, Didier Fuentes and Tyler Anderson scheduled.
This is pitch-perfect Rusty S.
On the plus side, at least we won’t have to go through the drama of Spencer Strider boycotting the White House visit next summer.
One way you can always tell when Braves Journalers are getting testy is that someone decides to try to skirt the longstanding “no politics” policy.
Sigh.
Ranger Suarez absolutely owns the Braves. I can’t think of any pitcher in the last 5 years that has dominated us more than him. Marlins about to pass us.
You’re right, he owned us in the playoffs a couple of years ago too.
We suck. Just sell. Of course, as an eternal optimist, right when I say that, they’re gonna win 12 straight.
But nah, there are just too many holes. Way too many holes. And now that Ozuna is very clearly injured, then they have a hard decision: keep playing him injured, or IL him so he can get healthy and come back before the deadline. There are just not that many sellers and we need to be one of them with our sellable assets being at the highest value they can be.
Regarding Ozuna, it seems pretty clear that early in the season he was hurt and taking walks to avoid swinging hard. Now that it’s common knowledge, he isn’t getting walked. But it must still hurt to swing, so he’s still taking pitches. He needs to be shut down because he’s becoming the 5th black hole in a lineup 4 strong (Harris, Verdugo, Allen, and Albies). He should have been DL’d a few weeks ago, but now seems like a good time, too.
they have to IL Ozuna. If he is not hitting he has zero use so jjst do it. Let Baldwin and Murphy DH. Not that its a great solution, but what the heck, try it.
I think I remember them saying he has something torn in his hip that will require surgery. So I don’t think an IL stint just to rest it until it heals will work.
Then get him surgery. Having him flail around giving the good old try isn’t helping anything. I have had both hips replaced and unless this would be some type of invasive correction he shouldn’t be out for the rest of the season. I was running and playing basketball a few weeks afterward. Granted, I am not a professional athlete, but I was also not in professional shape either.
Let’s play GM for a moment and assume that there are just too many holes to fill with the current state of our farm system to make up the ground we have to make up just to get in the playoffs.
Who we selling? What are we trying to get?
I’m for selling any member of the bullpen, including Raisel, Montero, de los Santos, Johnson, Bummer, and don’t kill me, but also Lee. It wouldn’t take much for me to add Dodd, but I’m kind of curious to see if he becomes a decent bullpen pitcher or goes back to being a pumpkin. Aside from Lee and possibly Raisel (if he can string another week or two of solid pitching), I don’t know that there’s much value there, but I would at least listen. Maybe someone gets desperate.
I would also listen to offers on Holmes in the rotation and anyone but Baldwin and Acuna on offense. I don’t think its realistic to trade Albies, Harris, and the other members of the black hole squad (though we do need six dozen bats and six dozen balls, so who knows?), nor am I a fan of trading low on Riley. But I think I need to listen, at least.
We just acquired reliever Hunter Stratton from the Pirates. Gave up 7 runs in 2 2/3 for the Pirates. He fits right in with our team concept.
Sale to 60 day IL. https://x.com/DOBrienATL/status/1940155465352028312
Sale could be back just in time for our stretch drive!
Dumping our relievers would be fine but I don’t see us getting anything from all our relievers other than maybe cash and a b level prospect or two. The other side of that is do we have anyone in AA or AAA that is actually potentially a major league reliever? You think we are painful to watch now?
Michael Tonkin should be available. I don’t think the Twins are doing much with him. The Angels just DFA’d Hector Neris. We haven’t had him for a while.
We could probably trade a prospect or two for Craig Kimbrell.
The announcers noted before the game that Tyler Anderson has been pitching poorly this season for the Angels. But he’s just the kind of soft tossing, crafty lefty that gives the Braves fits. That phenomenon (struggling against the junk balling southpaws) seems to have gone back for decades.
Man, Grant Holmes has become a very solid starter. The starting pitching almost makes this team watchable. But then once again they strand a runner at third with no outs, reminding us yet again (as if we needed it!) why this team is so frustrating.
Holmes has definitely been a silver lining to this crappy season.
In the last 2 games Holmes has pitched, he’s given up 2 ER & 9 H in 12 IP w/ 16 Ks… and the Braves have scored 0 runs for him.
Glad that this will likely be Verdugo’s last game.
Sellers. No reason to wait for the deadline.
Ugh. My recap will not be enthusiastic.
The longer Acuña is around Hyers, the worse he’s getting.
Fire Hyers now before he does any more damage.
I have a suggested Braves Journal Glossary entry. It is a Verdugo homerun. It is any flyout within 20 feet of the warning track.While Verdugo has not hit any homeruns for us, I bet he’s hit at least 10 Verdugo homreuns. I bet Nick Allen has hit at least 5 or 6 Verdugo homeruns.
Recapped.