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Post by kaybli on Jun 23, 2024 9:51:41 GMT -5
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Post by bumper on Jun 23, 2024 10:18:18 GMT -5
guess we'll find out how severe stanton's injury is. he has been put on the 10 day IL awaiting the results w peraza being called up. as much as he's "hated", the lineup becomes a lot shorter w/o him and his production will be missed. at this point really need gleyber and DJ to step up and play more to their expectations to pick up some of the slack.
nestor coming off 2 solid outings including 6 scoreless against the mighty O's. hopefully he can continue what stroman started last night. needs to be on his game because fried is tough.
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 23, 2024 10:42:37 GMT -5
Geez, the bottom half of this lineup. The bench is even worse with Peraza, Jones and Wells.
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Post by Max on Jun 23, 2024 10:59:57 GMT -5
Geez, the bottom half of this lineup. The bench is even worse with Peraza, Jones and Wells. I hope Grisham hits the cover off the ball. But I thought maybe Wells would DH, yeah I know he's a lefty but so is Grisham.
The other side of the coin is that I guess it's a chance to give Judge 2 days off from playing CF. |
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Post by Max on Jun 23, 2024 11:06:11 GMT -5
Who's going to win the Fried-Rice matchup?
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Post by JEGnj on Jun 23, 2024 11:19:53 GMT -5
I missed most of the game yesterday. Not being a jerk but can someone explain how a guy that doesn't play or run pull a hammy?
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Post by Renfield on Jun 23, 2024 11:39:22 GMT -5
I missed most of the game yesterday. Not being a jerk but can someone explain how a guy that doesn't play or run pull a hammy? Somewhere in the slow transit between 2d and home he tweaked it. He didn't seem to be moving very fast, but that's never stopped him from getting hurt before. |
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Post by nw on Jun 23, 2024 11:40:28 GMT -5
I missed most of the game yesterday. Not being a jerk but can someone explain how a guy that doesn't play or run pull a hammy? He was "running" from second to third, rounded third, and came up lame. The guy can sure hit the ball when they pitch it to his bat, but he literally has no other baseball skills left. |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 23, 2024 11:42:34 GMT -5
I missed most of the game yesterday. Not being a jerk but can someone explain how a guy that doesn't play or run pull a hammy? Somewhere in the slow transit between 2d and home he tweaked it. He didn't seem to be moving very fast, but that's never stopped him from getting hurt before. He might've done it when he awkwardly returned to 2B on Rice's line drive out. |
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Post by Renfield on Jun 23, 2024 11:42:35 GMT -5
I'm going to think snide thoughts about Grisham's hitting. It worked last night.
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Post by nw on Jun 23, 2024 11:43:21 GMT -5
I'm going to think snide thoughts about Grisham's hitting. It worked last night. The fans should keep chanting "we want Soto". |
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Post by Renfield on Jun 23, 2024 11:43:37 GMT -5
Somewhere in the slow transit between 2d and home he tweaked it. He didn't seem to be moving very fast, but that's never stopped him from getting hurt before. He might've done it when he awkwardly returned to 2B on Rice's line drive out. That's very possible. |
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Post by Renfield on Jun 23, 2024 11:50:54 GMT -5
Geez, the bottom half of this lineup. The bench is even worse with Peraza, Jones and Wells. Torres and DJ really need to step it up. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 23, 2024 11:56:36 GMT -5
guess we'll find out how severe stanton's injury is. he has been put on the 10 day IL awaiting the results w peraza being called up. as much as he's "hated", the lineup becomes a lot shorter w/o him and his production will be missed. at this point really need gleyber and DJ to step up and play more to their expectations to pick up some of the slack. nestor coming off 2 solid outings including 6 scoreless against the mighty O's. hopefully he can continue what stroman started last night. needs to be on his game because fried is tough. As I said last night in a late reply in the game thread... Not to worry, bumber. Stanton will be back in August. Of 2026. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 23, 2024 11:57:01 GMT -5
Lefty Max Fried starts the rubber game for the Braves. Now an 8-year veteran, Fried has very quietly reached 30 as one of the top 12 starters in the majors over the last five-plus seasons, at least according to fWAR. Drafted by the Padres with the 7th pick of the 1st round in 2012, he pitched OK in Rookie and Low-A ball in 2012 and 2013, but missed most of 2014 and all of 2015 because of elbow problems that finally led to Tommy John surgery in August of 2014. In December that year, he was traded to the Braves with 3 other prospects, including OF Mallex Smith and INF Jace Peterson, for OF Justin Upton and a pitching prospect. Fried pitched OK for the Braves in low-A upon returning from the surgery in 2016, but struggled in 2017, mostly at AA. In spite of his difficulties (2-11 with a 5.92 ERA in AA), the Braves called him up in late 2017, and he made 4 starts and 5 relief appearances, going 1-1 with a 3.81 ERA in 26 innings. After a strong showing in the Arizona Fall League, the Braves again started Fried in AA in 2018. He made two strong starts there, and they moved him up to AAA and he bounced between AAA and the majors 4 times, finally being called up for good in September. In AAA he was 2-6 with a 4.61 ERA in 13 starts, but in his 4 stints in the majors, he was 1-4 with a 2.91 ERA in 4 starts and 9 relief games.
He was in the rotation the whole season in 2019, breaking out with a 17-6 record and a 4.06 ERA. Over the next 3 seasons, he was one of the top 7 pitcher in the NL, going 35-14 with a 2.68 ERA in 69 starts. He was top 5 in the Cy Young voting twice and even won 3 Gold Gloves. In the 2021 postseason, he went 2-2 in five starts with an ERA of 4.23 as the Braves won it all. On Opening Day last season, he injured his left hamstring, and missed 2 1/2 weeks. He came bck to make three great starts, but in the fourth he struggled. He went on the IL with a strained left forearm, and missed the next 3 months. He came back in early August, he made 9 starts down the stretch and did very well, going 6-0 with an ERA of 2.79. On the season, in 14 starts, he was 8-1 with an ERA of 2.55, helping the Braves run away with the NL East by 14 games. He started game 2 of the NLDS against the Phillies, pitched ineffectively for 4 innings, but the offense took him off the hook in a 5-4 Braves win, their only win of the series.
This season, he's picked right up where he left off. In 14 startes, he's 6-3 with a 3.11 ERA. In 84 innings, he's allowed just 63 hits, 32 runs, 29 earned, 6 HR, 27 BB and struck out 76. He currently sits 10th in the NL in ERA, 6th in WHIP, and 5th in fewest HR per 9 innings. He's the only pitcher in MLB with 2 complete games, and one of just 10 pitchers who've thrown a shutout this season. The Red Sox and the O's did some hitting against him 3 starts ago and 2 starts ago, but nothing brutal. In the last 3 starts, he's 1-1 with a 3.63 ERA. Not superhuman, but still pretty good.
Fried is making his 3rd career start against the Yanks. He's pitched very well in the first two, winning both. The first was a 6-inning start in 2020, holding the Yanks to 4 hits, 1 run and 1 BB with 5 K's in a 2-1 win over the Yanks in Atlanta in late August. In the 2nd, the Yanks did a little better, getting 8 hits, 2 runs, and a BB off him in 6 innings, and he struck out just 2, but the Braves hammered the Yanks 11-3 in Atlanta in mid-August last year. This is his first-ever appearance against the Yanks at the Stadium; let's hope they can find all of IdiotSmoltz' ShortPorches in whatever field they happen to be hiding. His career WHIP against the Yanks is 1.167, and their team quadruple slash line against Fried is .279/.304/.326/.630
Repertoire: A lanky 6-4, 190 lbs, Fried is a kitchen sink 7-pitch lefty with good velocity. He throws both types of fastball, both types of slider, a cutter, a curve and a change. He gets average extension, and his FB spin has always been well below average, but his curve spin is among the highest in the game, year after year. Not quite up there with yesterday's starter, Charlie Morton, but not far behind. He gets exceptional "rise" on his 4-seamer and cutter, but if I'm reading the leaderboard at Baseball Savant correctly, his FB gets hugely negative run; it seems to act like a fast cutter, breaking gloveside on righties. If that's right, then his sinker also cuts some, but not by as much as the 4-seamer. The pitch mix, and quite a mix it is, for this season so far: 4-seamer averaging 94 about 32% of the time, curve 74-5 about 21%, sinker 93-4 about 15%, change 86 about 14%, slider 84 about 8%, cutter 89-90 about 7%, and sweeper 79-80 about 4%. I know that adds up to 101%, but he's got a lot of pitches for a hitter to have try to recognize, and it deserves an extra rounded-up percent.
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