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PCA goes down in flames again. Looks like the worst version of a left handed Javy.

Move Happ back to leadoff now that he’s starting to heat up so bullpens can stop exploiting the lefty heavy top of the order

Brewers will end the day with the highest run differential in baseball by 6 runs as of now. A week ago cubs and brewers were separated by 24 runs.

Another nail biter against the ****** Orioles. This team hasn’t Been fun to watch since Fourth of July weekend.

This has been more competitive than the Royals series at least.

Meatball after meatball

A’s finished their final 63 games of 2001 49-14. Second best so far

Maybe he meant center infielder? term that he invented on the spot? Odd error to make.

Are they though?

Rea got away with another 2 strike meatball.

The finger he jammed vs the Reds in June?

Are they at least still top 10 in rRC+ vs left handed pitchers?

Braves up 3-2 over Cincinnati in the 6th inning. That’s should cheer everyone up

I wonder if that terrible pitch he swung at for strike 3 was a result of that egregious collar high strike 3 call earlier in the game.

3 home runs hit in the last 6 games and 6 total from the big 4 since the all star break.. Time to start finding the bleachers again. Wind blowing in from right/center at 8 mph.

Probably had more to due with projecting a weak division and padding some wins vs Milwaukee which obviously isn’t the case. 6 months of a healthy Steele and Taillon and it’s not that unreasonable. Neither is high 80’s either and would be a disappointing finish with where they’re at.

A lot of similarities to Reinsdorfs mid 2000’s Whitesox with even more complacency at winning 85 games thanks to the 6 playoff seeds. I think they want to be Braves, but the disparity between their net revenue and payroll is alarming.

Zips projected 91 wins before the season started. There’s no bad faith on my part, I’m telling you the pulse of the average fan. Coupled with being traumatized by Milwaukee since 2018 you’ll have a lot of people in panic mode fair or not. The Dodgers are defending World Series champs and a modern dynasty and are given the benefit of the doubt that they’ll figure things out eventually. Yankees and Phillies are also seasoned playoff contenders outside of the Yankees, there’s less question marks about the other two teams. People crave dopamine hits and the lack of an 8 game winning streak for example has left that void. If this was a seasoned playoff contender then people would be less concerned. Top of the order coming through and stepping on the throats of teams by completing sweeps, pulling away with insurance runs and a lack of home runs during this mediocre stretch is what needs to be fixed, as well as the number of lopsided losses. People expect little of the pitching staff so the offense bars the brunt of some of the blame. People focus on this more than the lack of any long losing streaks or stretches of losing baseball. It is what it is. If Busch, Suzuki, PCA, Kelly, Boyd etc Were seasoned all star caliber players like they’ve played up to at this point of the season and not all having career years that may or not stick then people would give them the benefit of the doubt like the dodgers. right now they’ve been playing 500 ball for 2 months without the assurance that some of the teams top performers are who they are or played above of their weight in the early months, which hasn’t been 100% the case either at all. Not with PCA at least. I’m not at all on any ledge but trying to play devils advocate here.

The season has been more of a Ferris wheel than a roller coaster ride and the lack of winning streaks stretching longer than 5 games has left fans in need of a dopamine hit. April-May set the bar high in fans minds and haven’t yet accepted the fact that this is very likely a low 90’s win team as projected before season started and still chasing that early season dragon.

I’d love to know how many times a team had a hitter go 4-4 with a pitcher throwing 7 shutout innings in a loss.

Fair or not, April-may has set a bar in the minds of fans that this team hasn’t reached since. Unsurprisingly Suzuki is no longer on pace for 40+ home runs, Busch’s OPS has dropped into the 800’s and people are chasing that dragon that wasn’t sustainable and haven’t yet come to grips with the fact that this team will likely be a low 90’s win team as projected before the season started., which they would’ve accepted at the beginning of the season. It’s also uncommon for a team to consistent in terms of very little highs and lows and long, sustained winning streaks where people can point to that and say they’re capable of going on a heater at any time including the playoffs. They’ve been more of a Ferris wheel ride than a roller coaster with only a 5 game winning streak and a 3 game losing streak.

This is the first time they’ve trailed by a run heading into the 9th since June 24th interestingly enough. They haven’t really had a late inning comeback since that Sunday in Cincinnati in late May and haven’t had a 9th inning comeback since Amaya homered vs LA with 2 out to tie the game at 10. They’ve had opportunities but haven’t really had any comebacks of late.

If PCA Busch Suzuki Kelly and Boyd have officially arrived then we’ll be in good shape. The above 3 hitters will finish with between 30-40+ homers, and all 4 a mid-high 800 OPS from all of them and no dead arm from Boyd in the final months. We’d have to assume they’ll break out of their collective slumps in the case of Tucker Seiya and Busch to a lesser degree back to their pre all star break trajectory. If this dwindling impressive sample size holds up and trends back positively. Are they is key here. We’ll need them to be with a so so pitching staff and for Tucker to pick things up which I am confident he will. PCA is the real deal but to the incredibly high degree he’s been as a slugger, we’ll find out.

They’re not. Not according to how it’s calculated in wOBA. Walk’s are weighted at .69 while singles are weighed at .888 as an exponent in their calculation. This website would agree with you and it’s disappointing that you only have 1 thumbs up.

I wonder how many times a team’s had a player go 4-4 with a starting pitcher throwing 7 shutout innings in a loss. What a fitting way to honor Sanbergs career as a Cub. It would’ve been even more eerie if Nico was playing second base.