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Post by rennymadeit on Oct 2, 2024 22:40:21 GMT -5
Pretty good year considering Murphy's Law was in effect......and Sarge was our manager. 89 wins exceeded my expectations. I was targeting 85 to 88 at most. The acquisitions did help a little, they just couldn't make up for the devastating loss of key players. I still believe, even with our b string lineup , we would have had a good chance to advance with Sale, Lopez, S’bach and Fried. We’ll never know now.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Oct 3, 2024 6:42:21 GMT -5
Look, I'm no Brian Snitker, but I would have started Fried yesterday. Would things have been different? Probably not, but turning to him and saying "we need you tonight" might have inspired him. I just believe in crazy sheet like that. I am a huge believer in the baseball gods choosing to shine upon you are crap upon you based on how you play and manage. When smart decisions are made on the field and in the dugout, good things happen. When Sarge in his infinite wisdom decided the best starting option was to throw out the AAA guy who pitched in one MLB game all year and was known for giving up HR's... in a 3 game series mind you.. I knew the baseball gods were going to slap us very hard. They did... with the predictable game 1 loss and the ridiculous 4 infield hits at the beginning of game 2. Almost every year we head into the post season with our manager making bizarre starter choices or being down a starter due to our willingness to use random players as our 5 and 6 all year. Remember his starter choices a few years back in LA I think it was? We're a great 162 game organization, but we have neither the roster nor the MANAGER to prepare ua for and handle a short series. AJSS in game 1 of a 3 game series... sheesh. Absolutely Fried should have started game 1 on short rest. Hell... telling Morton to go give us 3-4 innings and then we'll turn it over to the pen would have been a better choice. Ian Anderson because of experience would have been a better choice. We might not have a had a different result as we lost because of our lack of offense, but the baseball gods may not have dropped that game 2 deuce on us as well... I believe that. 4 infield singles making every at bat high stress that early on... SMH Well... we tried. Thanks everyone
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Post by joeyg39 on Oct 3, 2024 12:47:19 GMT -5
Thanks again Max for the great effort last nite. Our fan base couldn't have asked for anything more. You left it all out there on the field... Snit did you a favor last nite by pulling you after 2 innings. 2 innings...8 hits...5 runs...1 bomb. Oh... almost forgot, 45 pitches.
Great parting effort. If you get more than $20m/year, you should be arrested for stealing money. I've been saying all along, when some in here considered you elite, that you were a fraud. This final outing will kill that argument...forever. This was your magnus corpus last nite. At least you showed up healthy... no flu, no blister, no stomach vurus. And we saw what a healthy Fried can do when his team and fan base needed him most. Not like that loser Sale (presumptive Cy Young winner btw), who is solely responsible for this team getting as far as it did this year.
Happy trails Max...
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Post by rennymadeit on Oct 3, 2024 15:50:02 GMT -5
Guess you didn’t see the part where he got drilled in the oblique? or hip? or buttocks? Idk by a screaming damn baseball ….exit velocity who knows? …by a player who looked like he was aiming his swing using MF as the target. Don’t imagine that had something to do with the way he pitched after that? Yeah, didn't think so. No excuses, not a good night ….. blooped to death in a Murphy’s Law kinda night. He’s not a pitcher on your team anyway so why do you care? You’re obviously on the wrong baseball board. This is the BRAVES FANS bored.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Oct 3, 2024 16:21:09 GMT -5
I hate it that Sale wasn't available for us at the time we needed him most, but he wasn't.
Sale was 1-3 with a 6.35 ERA for his post-season career, but there are certain people with an agenda that are going to continue to ignore that. That's okay... we know their allegiance.
I'm going to laugh when Fried gets his next contract. I'm glad we're not going to be paying it, but it's going to be funny when a baseball GM decides differently than a random Phillie fan.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Oct 3, 2024 16:37:56 GMT -5
Chris Sailure let us down more than Fried did.
Who could have possibly foreseen any concerns about the great Sailure’s health.
Now we’re stuck paying him a lot of money for two more years where he’s likely to be gimped most of the time and either a playoff flop or no show again.
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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Oct 3, 2024 17:28:59 GMT -5
Chris Sailure let us down more than Fried did. Who could have possibly foreseen any concerns about the great Sailure’s health. Now we’re stuck paying him a lot of money for two more years where he’s likely to be gimped most of the time and either a playoff flop or no show again. I'm glad we have Sale, but you can't count on him being available for game 163. I'm not even worried about his historical post-season results; you just can't count on him being available at that point, and most reasonable people know that.
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Post by joeyg39 on Oct 3, 2024 17:49:53 GMT -5
Chris Sailure let us down more than Fried did. Who could have possibly foreseen any concerns about the great Sailure’s health. Now we’re stuck paying him a lot of money for two more years where he’s likely to be gimped most of the time and either a playoff flop or no show again. Now who's trolling? Stuck paying a guy who won the triple crown for pitchers? In all likelihood would've been a 20 game winner had Sgt. McNutts managed differently. And only 3 losses? And was healthy for 95% of the season. We just shouldn't have forced ourselves to rely on an average pitcher in a must win game. Wow... massive hate, on by any metric, was the best pitcher in baseball... Surely you can't be as dumb as you sound...
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Post by joeyg39 on Oct 3, 2024 17:57:03 GMT -5
Chris Sailure let us down more than Fried did. Who could have possibly foreseen any concerns about the great Sailure’s health. Now we’re stuck paying him a lot of money for two more years where he’s likely to be gimped most of the time and either a playoff flop or no show again. I'm glad we have Sale, but you can't count on him being available for game 163. I'm not even worried about his historical post-season results; you just can't count on him being available at that point, and most reasonable people know that. You could say that for the most part about any pitcher... But to hate on a guy who is a true warrior and competitor... and didn't choose to be hurt. It was back spasms. Not obliques which kept Murphy and Riley out collectively for about 25 games I guess? Not an elbow or shoulder issue... Back spasm can happen to anyone. Would I rather have it flair up at game 63 instead of 163? Sure. But he had no control over that... And in the end doomed us.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Oct 3, 2024 18:47:33 GMT -5
Chris Sailure let us down more than Fried did. Who could have possibly foreseen any concerns about the great Sailure’s health. Now we’re stuck paying him a lot of money for two more years where he’s likely to be gimped most of the time and either a playoff flop or no show again. I'm glad we have Sale, but you can't count on him being available for game 163. I'm not even worried about his historical post-season results; you just can't count on him being available at that point, and most reasonable people know that. What we really needed him for was the playoffs and he failed. We don’t make the playoffs without his regular season performance, but what good did it to us to make the playoffs. When we look back at the last 30 years of regular season success and playoff failures do we list personal achievements? Like yeah we lost in whatever year but remember the year Chipper had that year? Yeah we lost but Smoltz was awesome. No we don’t. We’ve had enough regular season success to make me vomit considering our playoff failures. So this is one more of those failures, with our best pitcher not there for the fight that mattered. So…….fail.
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