re: ATL Thread 9/23 | Braves (Odorizzi) @ Phillies (Frick) | 6:05 CST

20 consecutive scoreless innings and the Grissom run is over

It's a joke that Odorizzi was still in.

Feels like we've quit.

Hopefully we'll turn it back on for the postseason, but I worry that the majority of the team is just exhausted at this point. Just from a starting pitching standpoint, it feels like every one of the outings for the last two weeks has been a chore to keep the pitch count under 80 pitches by the 5th inning.

When Harris is struggling in the outfield it’s time to change the channel.

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what an absolute joke this team has been the last 3 days.

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More like a 6 weeks, outside of five games a week ago.

By the way, of fricking course Freddie leads MLB in batting average this season, while Olson is out here whiffing with runners on second on a nightly basis.

Freddie’s approach and swing makes him more immune to changes with the ball. I think Olson has just struggled plus the ball change hurt him a bit too, I don’t think it’s solely one thing or the other

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Freddie’s approach and swing makes him more immune to changes with the ball.

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Which is why it was dumb we held out on a 6th year when negotiating with him just because we were scared of the age thing.

I guarantee you Freddie will still be hitting at a decent clip in 6 years.

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Freddie wanted to be a Brave he would have been. Stop crying about it.

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And if the Braves really wanted him, they could’ve had him. Both sides are to blame and now Freddie is playing at an MVP level on a better team.

We lost that gamble.

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Which is why it was dumb we held out on a 6th year when negotiating with him just because we were scared of the age thing.

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Eh, it made sense of we were going to be a 150ish mil payroll team going forward like we were this year. But it looks like we will be a 200 millionish payroll team, and at that point not signing Freddie is straight idiotic in retrospect.

Strider to the IL