Show #147: Braves Get Another Series Win Against Phillies
Characterizing the Braves. Chipper’s knee. Heyward’s shoulder. Uggla at the plate. And the Civil Rights game.
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May 18th, 2011 at 8:27 am
Since 2007, the Phillies are 56-22 against the Nationals. The Braves are 40-38. That’s a 16-game difference. Last season, the Braves went 23-20 against Washington, Florida and Arizona. That’s 6½ games worse than the Phillies did (29-13). The difference in the division race was six games.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:28 am
Gotta love David Ross (see TEAM PLAYER):
“When he hit his first home run, the first person I high-fived was Fredi for putting him in.”
May 18th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Curt, you didn’t cherry pick, did you? If I look up us and the Phils against the Pirates, Mets, Cubs, Astros, etc, it’s not gonna swing back some, is it?
May 18th, 2011 at 10:44 am
What’s it look like when you switch out the Mets for the Diamondbacks? Conventional wisdom says to win your division, you win in your division.
May 18th, 2011 at 10:46 am
Eric, to your point, the Phils won 6 more games in the NL East than the Braves.
May 18th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Here’s another stat which surprised me: So far this season, the Braves have played the 2nd strongest schedule in the majors.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi/_/sort/sos
Taking it at face value, we should expect our record to even get better when things even out and we get to play more sub-500 teams. But then this goes back to the discussion that we don’t seem to gear up against teams like the Nationals.
May 18th, 2011 at 11:22 am
Bub, in full disclosure, that stat came from Jeff Schultz. I just thought it was interesting. I spent too much time the other night researching the Braves record against sub-.500 teams, and couldn’t find anything.
May 18th, 2011 at 11:23 am
I am so ready for some 9:40pm baseball tonight.
May 18th, 2011 at 11:45 am
I think the Braves should save their major trading pieces for the
off season. We have some big holes to fill this winter because McLouth, Alex, and Chipper may not be back. So we may have to find a major league third basemen, shortstop, and centerfielder to be competitive. Minor, Delgado, Schafer would bring these back. I hope Frank Wren doesn’t go too crazy at the summer deadline. All we need is some bench help and a couple of relievers. We should think about the future.
May 18th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Walker, unless the Braves get sold to some deep pocketed billionaire, they are filling all those spots from their farm system. Schafer might very will be the CF, or Jose Costanza, Wilkin Ramirez. You’ve got guys like Diory, Hicks, Pastornicky, etc. to play infield. They might go out to fill one of these spots. No way they do it to fill all 3.
May 18th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Curt , if you are right we are in some deep trouble next year. Hicks at SS and Schafer at CF? Those are two black holes. I’m not sold on Schafer anymore. He should be hitting .300 at AAA and he’s not.
May 18th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Agreed on all of it. I just have watched how the Braves have plied their trade the last couple of years, and replacing 3 positions on the team with high priced, and/or moderately priced, free agents isn’t part of the plan.
May 18th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Bub – can you link to the comments from Chipper about the team not getting up for lesser teams? I can’t find them.
May 18th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2011/05/14/braves-phillies-a-fair-fight-that-might-last-deep-into-october/
Try this article, Steve.
May 18th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
#64
As a friend of mine used to say “I was going to think that…”
Unfortunately, the four or five baseball reasons to remove him from the major league roster do not outwiegh the 1.5 million non-baseball reasons to keep him on the major league roster, as far as the Braves are concerned… (Can you say K.K.?)
I guess hope springs eternal that he will “return to form” (again, can yo say “K.K.”? Did Linebrink ever really have “form”? Is that like saying “get back into shape” implies that at one point in time you were “in shape”…?)
May 18th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Mark, Linebrink has been absolutely terrible for all of 2009, all of 2010, and thus far in 2011. No bad luck BABIP. No unfortunate strand rate. Just very, very bad pitching. He will cost the Braves on this road trip unless we are very lucky.
May 18th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Thanks Bub.
May 18th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I can go be terrible for 1.5 million… shoot, I’ll do it for 1 million, save the Braves 500K… Where do I sign up?
May 18th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
And I am certainly better than Linebrink as I don’t have a track record of being terrible for the previous two years
May 18th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Linebrink had a great year in 2005. Has found suckers to pay him ever since. A real clutch pitcher his whole career: 7 saves in 40 opportunities. Maybe Wren can get him to extend his contract.
May 18th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
For certain, you will only see Linebrink in games Braves are basically conceding.
May 18th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
I’m fairly certain Braves will go with the youth as starters. Question: will Rodrigo Lopez be used as trade bait for bench strength?
May 18th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
All ready for baseball…in 3…hours.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
2 hours, yeah?
May 18th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
1 hour?