Show #180: The Braves Dominate with Bats and Starters
The 5 – 2 week. Hudson’s return. And the back end of the bullpen.
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April 24th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Not a good sign when we start the game 0-3 with RISP.
April 24th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
That should’ve been a bigger inning.
April 25th, 2012 at 12:30 am
Uggla looks horrible defensively.
April 25th, 2012 at 12:39 am
I hate the camera angle for the bunt
April 25th, 2012 at 12:56 am
PRADO!
April 25th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Biggest win of the year so far! And it was a one run game.
April 25th, 2012 at 8:42 am
Prado=pure awesomeness. It turned out well but I was concerned when Fredi brought EOF in to get the last out I the 7th. If only he didn’t act like he ha an eating disorder in the mound….I think he’d pitch better.
Go Braves!
April 25th, 2012 at 9:05 am
Nice way to wake up. I was sure that one was a goner when I went to bed last night. Great win.
April 25th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
The Braves are 7th in the majors in wOBA and are bunched with teams in the 5th-8th range (Braves are at .332, and the other teams in that range are between .333 and .331).
wOBA is Weighted On-Base Average and takes into account the run value of walks, it-by-pitch, steal, caught stealing, outs and each type of hit.
They are also 5th in the majors in total bases.
So the fact that they don’t look all that impressive in terms of on-base and slugging is somewhat misleading.
April 25th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
wOBA essentially weighs hits and walks more accurately than on-base or slugging. Slugging, for example, treats a double as twice as valuable as a single. wOBA weighs singles and doubles and other events according to their run values.
April 25th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
We need more stats in baseball.
April 25th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Yeah there’s just not enough information out there to evaluate players and teams.
April 25th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
They are all so accurate.
April 25th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
No way I make it through a rain delay.
April 26th, 2012 at 12:11 am
Wow. 680 The Fan’s Matt Chernoff Tweeted that Beachy is a number four starter. As you can imagine all Twitter hell broke loose. Good stuff.
April 26th, 2012 at 12:13 am
Curt @61, not more. Just better ones than those that are on the backs of baseball cards.
April 26th, 2012 at 12:50 am
Love seeing our guys rally like this. So clutch.
April 26th, 2012 at 12:56 am
Hell Yeah
April 26th, 2012 at 1:07 am
Huge win to finish off a huge series.
April 26th, 2012 at 7:06 am
Shaun, perhaps true. I just worry that stuff like that allows people to over-think things and situations.
Really sorry I missed the bulk of the last two games. Stupid job and my stupid early show up times.
April 26th, 2012 at 8:50 am
Great sign of the week: FANTASTIC road trip. When’s the last time we had such a great west coast? GO Braves!
April 26th, 2012 at 9:36 am
Now I’m no Major League manager. But if my closer takes a line drive to the face I’m pulling him. I don’t care how fine he says he is. Mercy!
April 26th, 2012 at 10:34 am
Curt @70, I see your point. However, perhaps some more thinking needs to be done so that we don’t, for instance, judge individual players on stats like pitcher wins and RBI.
Now, to get sort of philosophical…
Hopefully people dig into what stats are actually measuring to get a sense of how useful they are or are not. I don’t think the folks that do such things should avoid trying to construct better, more telling stats in order to keep people from over-thinking.
There’s always the danger that bringing in more stats will open the door to those who want to quote batting average against LHP on Wednesday day games on natural grass.
If one doesn’t want to dig into the meaning behind certain stats, probably best to use no stats than the wrong stats, i.e., “baseball card” stats.
April 26th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
great ball game
lets sweep the Rats.
losing a series against weak/marginal teams killed us last year…
April 26th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Watch out NL, the Braves are playing like a complete team.