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Post by keystone61 on Sept 21, 2024 7:50:05 GMT -5
Harris is coming off a 4 homer series in Cincinnati and was 3-5 tonight. Timing ain't your thing is it, Philly fan?
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 21, 2024 8:18:30 GMT -5
Harris is coming off a 4 homer series in Cincinnati and was 3-5 tonight. Timing ain't your thing is it, Philly fan? Harris has a .914 OPS with 7 HRs and 15 RBI in the month of September, so yeah he’s probably the reason we are losing.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 21, 2024 8:32:16 GMT -5
The real gripe would be that Laureano really should be batting second since Harris has settled in at leadoff (even though he’s supposedly fat and can’t take the pressure). Laureano has an .863 OPS with us, and is right at .330/.370/.560/.930 for August and September combined. And still prone to sit in favor of Kelensuck any day that Snitwit gets a wild hair and has to get his boy in the game. With Ozzie not in form and batting right handed against RHP he shouldn’t be hitting second. Laureano has speed too, so it just makes too much sense to bat him second right now. And he’s hitting pitchers from both sides.
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Post by PABraveFan on Sept 21, 2024 8:47:36 GMT -5
The real gripe would be that Laureano really should be batting second since Harris has settled in at leadoff (even though he’s supposedly fat and can’t take the pressure). Laureano has an .863 OPS with us, and is right at .330/.370/.560/.930 for August and September combined. And still prone to sit in favor of Kelensuck any day that Snitwit gets a wild hair and has to get his boy in the game. With Ozzie not in form and batting right handed against RHP he shouldn’t be hitting second. Laureano has speed too, so it just makes too much sense to bat him second right now. And he’s hitting pitchers from both sides. I am ready to fly with Laureano next year and surely making an arb offer. Kelenic not so much. I'll take Laureano's .250 with 15-20 HR, 75 RBI and a .750 OPS. He's got almost double the war in 40% less AB's than Kelenic. I would have also signed Profar for cheap last year. The Padres got quite the bargain.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 21, 2024 8:53:02 GMT -5
Laureano is not a sure bet, he’s had some decent seasons and some poor ones, but Kelensuck is a sure bet, a sure bet to not hit. He’s also one of Snitker’s baseball player guys. My guess is we’ll end up with both of them as basically our backup outfielders with Kelenic getting the nod until he sucks his way down the ladder again.
We’ll sign Kelensuck cheap for four years, the last three to be spent in the minors.
Imagine what we could have had in LF this year if we had spent that $13M or $16M on an outfielder who could actually hit instead of Kelensuck.
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Post by joeyg39 on Sept 21, 2024 9:25:01 GMT -5
Harris is coming off a 4 homer series in Cincinnati and was 3-5 tonight. Timing ain't your thing is it, Philly fan? One series makes a player in your estimation... Got it. Maybe that's why he's up to a whopping 2.2 war. He isn't a leadoff hitter. He doesn't get on base, and he strikes out way too much and is not selective at the plate. All things that don't seem to matter to you other than having a good series in Cincinnati. Me? I'd rather have my best player get to the plate as many times as possible in the course of a game. Especially if I'm severely hamstrung with key injuries.
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Post by PABraveFan on Sept 21, 2024 9:32:36 GMT -5
Laureano is not a sure bet, he’s had some decent seasons and some poor ones, but Kelensuck is a sure bet, a sure bet to not hit. He’s also one of Snitker’s baseball player guys. My guess is we’ll end up with both of them as basically our backup outfielders with Kelenic getting the nod until he sucks his way down the ladder again. We’ll sign Kelensuck cheap for four years, the last three to be spent in the minors. Imagine what we could have had in LF this year if we had spent that $13M or $16M on an outfielder who could actually hit instead of Kelensuck. Here's another guy I mentioned several years ago that we could have obtained for cheap as he was having an off year. He would have looked pretty good in a Braves uniform this year.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Sept 21, 2024 13:43:51 GMT -5
Laureano is not a sure bet, he’s had some decent seasons and some poor ones, but Kelensuck is a sure bet, a sure bet to not hit. He’s also one of Snitker’s baseball player guys. My guess is we’ll end up with both of them as basically our backup outfielders with Kelenic getting the nod until he sucks his way down the ladder again. We’ll sign Kelensuck cheap for four years, the last three to be spent in the minors. Imagine what we could have had in LF this year if we had spent that $13M or $16M on an outfielder who could actually hit instead of Kelensuck. Here's another guy I mentioned several years ago that we could have obtained for cheap as he was having an off year. He would have looked pretty good in a Braves uniform this year. I don’t know a thing about his defense but I’ve had him on my fantasy team about four years in a row and he’s been steady and productive. I still wonder if something is up with Ozuna, it’s never made much sense that we took on so much salary with Soler to have two DH’s. When we did it I said I was really surprised because Soler was so bad in the field and a few people kept saying ahhhhh we’ll live with it, but it didn’t take long to see an issue. The two options I see is we’ll go ahead and sign Ozuna for one more year and live with Soler’s defense, or we might sign Ozuna then trade him, we could get a pretty good player in return even with Ozuna having just the one year on his contract.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Sept 21, 2024 18:58:41 GMT -5
Harris is coming off a 4 homer series in Cincinnati and was 3-5 tonight. Timing ain't your thing is it, Philly fan? One series makes a player in your estimation... Got it. Maybe that's why he's up to a whopping 2.2 war. He isn't a leadoff hitter. He doesn't get on base, and he strikes out way too much and is not selective at the plate. All things that don't seem to matter to you other than having a good series in Cincinnati. Me? I'd rather have my best player get to the plate as many times as possible in the course of a game. Especially if I'm severely hamstrung with key injuries. You do know that WAR is a cumulative statistic and that he missed a third of the season, right? You are aware that he has a career OPS of .790 and OPS+ of 116.... right? lol "one series".. You really shouldn't try and display your smarts, although I'll give you that he's not an ideal leadoff hitter, but you understand this is a unique season for this cobbled together lineup... right? Surely?
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Post by joeyg39 on Sept 22, 2024 11:45:55 GMT -5
...**although I'll give you that he's not an ideal leadoff hitter...**
Now, if you can contain your hubris and negate anything that came before...and after the above quotes, you will have affirmed my complaint. Surely...
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