Show #196: A Week of Good Signs for the Braves
The pitching, offense and defense all start clicking. Credit to Frank Wren and the six man rotation debate.
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August 13th, 2012 at 11:54 pm
6 man rotation acometh
August 14th, 2012 at 9:46 am
5.5 games back seems so much worse than 4.5. Amazing that you have that run and then lose 2 games back-to-back and seemingly lose all momentum. The freaking Nats.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Wow. That Hanson stuff makes absolutely no sense to me. Seems pretty customary for any player coming off an injury, especially a pitcher, to go on a minor league rehab assignment.
Reminds me of Andruw Jones getting upset and the hubbub over him being placed on revocable waivers that August several years back.
August 14th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Is B.Mac blind again?
August 14th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Great Win. Wow no activity on here tonight.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
The Braves’ potent offense entered Tuesday averaging 4.58 runs per game, the second most in the National League.
did not know that…
August 14th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Great to see Chipper on the verge of 2700 hits. I’m driving down for the Sat. game against LA, might be my last chance to see him play. Good win tonight, let’s keep it going!
August 15th, 2012 at 10:26 am
finally
August 15th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
@Ken_Rosenthal: Just announced by #MLB: #SFGiants’ Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for testosterone.
August 15th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
Melky….drinkning too much “milk” I guess. Serves him rigth after those games with Atlanta. What a jerk…..
Him getting 50 games susp is almost the best news I have heard all year.
August 15th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
My Mark DeRosa curse continues…sorry, MattyD. Go Braves (sans exclamation point)
August 15th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Wow Melky you let your team down. You are a free agent and you just lost alot of money. You lost respect. You were the MVP of the All Star Game and your team is in the middle of a playoff race. Horrible just Horrible. Maybe you can get off with the Ryan Braun defense. Try it. Who knows?
August 15th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Gearrin just threw my kid a ball!
August 15th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Just catching up on the Melky news. Now we’ll all be suspicious when players slim down and start hitting. Disgraceful.
August 15th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Wish they caught Melky tomorrow.
August 15th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
After that throw back heckler yelled at Bourn “how many colors on that rainbow?”. Michael laughed.
August 15th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
The boy and I are sitting just under Uggla’s bomb to LF! Did you guys see me?
August 15th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
8-2 road trip for the Nats
August 15th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Leah – that is so awesome about the ball from Gearrin and Ugglas’s HR. Sorry to miss you. I was there yesterday and will be tomorrow.
August 15th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
So… McCann & Uggla have career worst years, Beachy out for the year, Venters blows up his ERA, Jurrjens implodes so badly he could be DFA’d in the winter, and Tommy Hanson isn’t far behind him. Minor, Delgado, and Teheran post ERA’s of 4.93, 4.42, and 8.31 respectively. Starting SS completely flops. His replacement breaks his hand.
Result: on pace for 94 wins. Just like we drew it up.
August 15th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
@45 – It really is crazy and a good reminder not to get too down about losing streaks. Wait, Bobby, WAS right.
August 15th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
And the craziness for JJ continues. He just left his rehab start because of dizziness.
August 15th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
@ Bub
We needed super years from Bourn, Prado, Chipper, and Kimbrel to overcome those things. Not to mention improvements from Freeman and Heyward. The outfield defense has been stellar and so has our GM. And dare I say it, I have not criticized Fredi Gonzalez in over a month. He’s still not a good manager though.
August 15th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Walker, that’s a nice group of high achievers, but it’s still, just by the eye-ball or feeling test, a modest improvement compared with the seeming disasters.
Or, at least, I would have expected those performances, at the most, to put us back to evens. We haven’t won 94 times in a season since Mike Hampton won 13 games for Atlanta…
August 15th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Also, yes, Fredi has improved quite a bit, deserves some credit, and still sucks so bad that he changes the tide in the Gulf of Mexico on home stands.