Braves Fall To The Mets 3-2

Game One of the “Jason Heyward Bats Second” experiment didn’t produce the results everyone expected.

right….

Keep a tape of this game around to show everyone how not to manage a game.

Overmanaging 101

I can’t really say Gee outpitched Hanson. 6 base runners allowed, not including the intentional walk to Emaus. 9 strikeouts and one IBB.

Regardless, pretty poor game all around. One of those annoying losses.

Suicide play was just that…….Suicide. Hinske at 3rd…. Hanson bunting… are you phucking kidding me? Have Hanson strike out (have him swing late if anything else) just so Prado gets his shot. In my mind, that could have been key.

Ok, so, any time Hicks steps into the box it’s an automatic out. Cool beans. He’s the Anti-Infante.

what are the braves in pinch hitting situations now like 1 for 20

With every at-bat, Brandon Hicks is proving that using the SSS in Spring Training to “earn” a spot on the team is ludicrous thinking. The guy has never hit and he has a good spring. They asked him the keys to success and he said he’s made “key adjustments in his swing”. Well….no shit.

I mean, what’s he supposed to say? “Well, I really can’t hit my way out of a paper bag, but I’m just closing my eyes and wacking away, and luckily, the bat hits the ball purty good”.

Brandon Hicks is a glove guy that is being used as a PH because we have to use him. He’s never going to see the field at SS, so why wouldn’t FW have made the smart move and have given the job to someone who can actually hit: Ed Lucas?

Between the roster construction, the lineup construction, and the bunt calls, I’m sort of fed up with upper management early on this year.

Before I get attacked, I’ll say this: I think Fredi Gonzalez and Frank Wren are good at their jobs, but there have been poor decisions made these first couple of weeks.

Send down Hicks! He offers nothing!

So maybe we lost, but hey, look on the bright side! At least we…..uh…well…we at least,um………………………go Braves!

ALL of our pitchers are suffering from terrible run support. But that will start to change, hopefully pretty soon.

Heyward batting 2nd.

We would have won this game.

but he’s starting to piss me off.

A suicide squeeze attempt in the 3rd inning of a 2-1 game on a 2-2 pitch with one out and our worst bunter at the plate? That’s just stupid.

While pinch hitting Chipper for Freeman in the 7th was OK, I didn’t like the move at the time and it might have cost us the game. Freeman has been killing the ball lately and the kid needed the opportunity to come up with his first big hit.

And finally, STOP BUNTING. Giving away an out (especially in the 9th inning) is incredibly stupid and he did it with Alex Gonzalez, who hit the ball well yesterday. He had Matt Young and Brooks Conrad coming up next, and no offense to either guy, but neither is a very good hitter.

#FUFG.

but he’s starting to piss me off.

A suicide squeeze attempt in the 3rd inning of a 2-1 game on a 2-2 pitch with one out and our worst bunter at the plate? That’s just stupid.

While pinch hitting Chipper for Freeman in the 7th was OK, I didn’t like the move at the time and it might have cost us the game. Freeman has been killing the ball lately and the kid needed the opportunity to come up with his first big hit.

And finally, STOP BUNTING. Giving away an out (especially in the 9th inning) is incredibly stupid and he did it with Alex Gonzalez, who hit the ball well yesterday. He had Matt Young and Brooks Conrad coming up next, and no offense to either guy, but neither is a very good hitter.

#FUFG.

but he’s starting to piss me off.

A suicide squeeze attempt in the 3rd inning of a 2-1 game on a 2-2 pitch with one out and our worst bunter at the plate? That’s just stupid.

While pinch hitting Chipper for Freeman in the 7th was OK, I didn’t like the move at the time and it might have cost us the game. Freeman has been killing the ball lately and the kid needed the opportunity to come up with his first big hit.

And finally, STOP BUNTING. Giving away an out (especially in the 9th inning) is incredibly stupid and he did it with Alex Gonzalez, who hit the ball well yesterday. He had Matt Young and Brooks Conrad coming up next, and no offense to either guy, but neither is a very good hitter.

#FUFG.

Is Freddi’s obvious lack of understanding of random variation. It has been 16 games and Freddi is talking about needing to “create runs.” He has a lineup with at least 5 above average to star level regulars, and he doesn’t beleive they will score runs? The present issues will correct themselves as they regress to the mean, but not if our manager is acting with the same amount of patience as a 5 year old in line for dessert. Please, give the players a chance to play and stop giving away outs.

if you’re going to make that call – you gotta know if your pitch can bunt or not – I see a learning curve here…

I’m just glad that so many people have said the things that I feel and that I don’t even have to create a post saying it. This is my post saying that I agree with some thing(s) on this thread.

Here is my slightly-OT-but-not-really observation/question: I’m seeing people complaining that Prado takes the first pitch, and some people complaining that he was swinging away too much…maybe my memory is just bad, and no one really complained about him swinging away too much? Someone please enlighten me.

Also, perhaps Prado is being told to take the first pitch…

OR maybe this is all a conspiracy by the Marlins, with whom Fredi is secretly in cahoots, to destroy the Braves internally so they can be the champions of the world!

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