Show #120: The Braves Post A Surprising 5 – 2 Week
The Glavine ceremony. Medlen, KK, Minor. The hole at 1st base. Wagner and the closer role.
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August 15th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
I have no camera phone, so I cannot be responsible. Go Braves!!
August 15th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
“Vincente Padilla, not so much”
How about: “Braves… yes so much” instead?
Padilla’s ER per game in his last 10 starts before today:
4, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 2, 4, 2
Versus Braves: 8
C’mon, man. Give the hitters some credit, as unlikely as that seems.
August 15th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
* unlikely that the Braves’ hitters would be responsible, Curt, not unlikely that you would credit them.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
“I guess over the last two months I’ve come to the realization, not to sound brash or anything, that I’m more valuable than I thought I was,” said Jones, ”
Albatross contract.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Bub, I was sort of messing with you knowing your deep love for all things Vincente.
Great game today. Now we can revert back to normal and score 2 runs a game for the next 3 weeks.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
“Now we can revert back to normal and score 2 runs a game for the next 3 weeks.”
I guess you’re just being flip. There are no 3 week stretches in the season, not even in April, where the Braves scored 2 runs per game. I would be surprised if there were any where they scored 3 runs per game. They averaged 3.9 runs per game from opening day until they’re lowest point of the season, May 9th.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Does torrential downpour give the Mets any sort of advantage?
August 15th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
In fact, what many overlook is that, while the offense obviously improved from April/early May (3.9 RPG) to the hot streak of May 10 till the break (5.0 Runs Per Game), the pitching improved almost as dramatically at the same time, dropping from 4.4 runs allowed per game down to 3.5 runs allowed per game.
We are now in between. In the second half, still allowing only 3.5 runs per game, but now only scoring around 4.3 runs per game.
I know that’s a garbledy post, so here are the numbers again in plain sight:
April/ Early May: 3.9 runs scored, 4.4 runs allowed
May 10 – break: 5.0 runs scored, 3.5 runs allowed
Break – now: 4.3 runs scored, 3.5 runs allowed
So, you can see, we are still playing winning baseball, scoring .8 more than we’re giving up. But we were a point and a half per game in the plus during the hot streak.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
TJ for Meds. Sadness.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
TJ for Meds is happiness, Mara. You don’t want a partially torn ligament haunting you every outing, waiting for the rubber band to pop.
We’ll have a brand new Medlen this time next year. Teheran will also be ready then. We don’t have much breathing room between now and then, but if we can get there, we’ll be set like never before in pitching.
August 15th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Does anyone know what’s happening with Arodys Vizcaino? I know he had similar injury to Medlen’s, but I wasn’t sure if he was going to have the TJ surgery.
August 15th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Nate, last I heard was a 6 week rehab somewhere in Florida. It’s been 6 weeks since the injury – in fact, almost exactly, as I believe it was around July 1. Talking Chop hasn’t mentioned it lately – unless I missed it – and they usually keep pretty close track.
August 15th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Now who’s the Mary Sunshine?
August 15th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Who, me? No, I think it’s possible they’ll go into an offensive funk. Chipper, Heyward, Prado, and (the good) Glaus, is an awful lot to go missing from this line up.
I’m just saying it hasn’t happened yet, and 2 runs per game is an exaggeration, considering our worst offense scored twice that.
August 15th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Yes. Flip. Of course.
Broader point I was trying to make was that we tend to score lots of runs in 1 game and then hibernate for a few. But hopefully May Troy will now get going and he can carry us now that the Chipster is done.
August 15th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Curt, not to drag this out, but most teams feel like their offense either scores a bunch or nothing. Since the Braves have averaged between 4 and 5 runs per game whether hot or cold, I’m going to assume that the zero, one, and two run games are the ones that qualify for “nothing,” and we’ll let the Braves off the hook for the “ALL” half of all-or-nothing. Mainly because I don’t want to count any more stuff.
So, how many times have the Braves scored zero, one, or two runs? 28 times.
Meanwhile, the Phillies, who have scored more runs than the Braves, have a whopping THIRTY SIX games in which they’ve scored zero, one, or two runs.
(And since they’ve scored more in total, you know that means they’ve had more big-scoring games on the top end of all-or-nothing.)
So, in any case, in whatever sense it’s true that the Braves have an all or nothing offense, it’s more true for the Phillies. Since I didn’t check any other teams, for all I know the Phillies are the worst all-or-nothing offense in the game, and the Braves are 2nd. I don’t know. But I doubt it.
August 15th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Okay, had to check the Yankees. Used 0, 1, 2, and 3 runs for the nothing end of their offense because they score 5 and a half runs per game. 39 times they fell to the nothing end. Lots of zeros and ones in there, too.
So, on the skimpy end of all-or-nothing, the Braves have shot a “nothing” 28 times, the Phils 36 times, and the Yankees 39 times.
August 15th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
See Bub, I let you do my math to make me feel better.
I still have the faith. There’s just a finer line now.
August 15th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
It’s a little finer for me, too, Curt.
August 15th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
I really would have liked for a couple of today’s runs to cross the plate last night. Not sure what that does to your math but sure woulda been handy.
August 15th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
You guys should get a good one tomorrow.
August 15th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Doesn’t do anything to the math.
The math shows that it happens to everybody.
Yankees scored zero today. Eight yesterday.
LA scored 15 last Tuesday. Zero the next day.
Phillies scored 10 on Thursday. Zero on Friday.
And that’s just one quick scan in one month on three screens I already had up.
August 15th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
I wish we weren’t going to get a good one, lol. Billingsley skeers me. But maybe Tommy’ll be up for the task.
August 16th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Um…did everyone see my comment about a picture? When I say livid I mean stark raving mad.
August 16th, 2010 at 12:12 am
WE’RE DISCUSSING IT RIGHT NOW ON EMAILS, MARA. Sheesh.