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I think most of us are frustrated at Braves players and management decisions. The bullpen use of Moyland and Gonzelez. They are basically the only two we use so why are we wasting roster spots for everyone else down there. Is Manny Acosta still in the bullpen? Feels like he is never used.

We can second guess and make our assumptions after the fact, but we aren’t down there with Bobby in the heat of the game. I’m sure we all wouldn’t make good decisions all the time. We get to see the action after the fact and then we go and question. Some of us, me included, need to get off our high horses.

It’s a marathon. Losing close games and blowing leads isn’t fun, but every team does it.

Let’s just see what kind of adjustments the Braves make in the second half. Hopefully the stellar SP remains stellar and the bats start to come alive.

This is my first FanPost, so please don’t be too harsh on me, and please pardon any formatting/mechanical/grammatical issues. It’s late. Go Braves, and at least Jeff Francoeur looked good tonight.

Haha, I guess we are that bad for this disclaimer to go up on most posts.

As to the content, you’re right, but second guessing is easy in this case. The bunt, in this case, was probably the right move (as much as giving up an out is). I like it because it puts Frenchy in tag up position. But I think Bobby didn’t do so badly in that situation as to warrant second guessing; execution should’ve been better, that I agree with.

What I take Bobby to task for is his use of Gonzalez. We have other pen options, lets see how they work out! It’ll be better than seeing Gonzalez trot out there for 90 appearances a year removed from Tommy John surgery.

I like the post and agree with it. I do have one thing though. Anderson has been really good lately (on offense). I know he sucks on D, but his bat is really coming around. Honestly, he has been better than Diaz at the plate over the past month or so.

As for the grammar/punctuation/spelling thing: it isn’t like we ridicule someone who forgets to use an apostrophe or something like that…we just get onto the people who post like they are in 3rd grade.

Walls of text, no spacing, run on sentences, etc. Things that make something difficult to read are what we don’t like. If you post like you actually give a shit, you won’t be criticized at all.

Good post.

i think Little Things was a good charlotte song.

Now the Rockies have force outs available at any bag. Advantage: CO.

You would rather have a runner on 2nd base and 1 out than a runner on 1st and 2nd with 1 out?

Since Brooks failed to get the bunt down, and we’re on the road with 2 above average-to-fast runners on base with only one out, baseball logic usually tells us it’s time to take a chance since we don’t have final at-bat. I see this as an opportunity to double steal. Like I said, we have two good baserunners, and the double steal gives the catcher the opportunity to decide which base he wants to throw down to, possibly resulting in a bad throw if the steals don’t work outright.

Jeff Francoeur is not nearly a good enough base runner to ask him to steal bases, especially not 3rd. Risking outs and baserunners this way when you have good hitters coming up is just silly.

I disagree with advocating the double steal in that situation. For his career Jeff Francoeur has been 14 for 26 in base stealing. He was relatively proficient in the minors, but this is not an aspect of his game that is particularly strong (as if there was one aspect). He has been much better this year 5 for 6, but still. I don’t trust FYF stealing third. Another thing is that Blanco hasn’t been that efficient either (at least according to his minor league numbers). That really doesn’t matter, because the would most likely try to throw out FYF at third and Blanco would tke 2nd easily.

I also think that pinch hitting Chipper makes sense. he is our best hitter. You want your best hitter up in that situation. Your are right it is questionable because you know they are just gonna walk him to set up the force at any base. But they would probably do that no matter who is batting (so maybe you pinch hit chipper for Prado or McLouth, but probably not).

the only mistake we made was not getting the bunt down (and like u admitted Conrad should have been swingin away anyways). I agree we need to know how to bunt for when the opportunity arises, but that opportunity should be sparse.