The ATL Thread 5/19 - Bummer released, Drake to the IL

Good thing we built a cushion on the Phillies when they were struggling. We're going to need it.

Don’t look now, but Matt Olson is ice cold over the last 10. Can’t survive that with a banged up roster and non existent Riley.

Ozzie is likely cooked. April was random. I fear we’re in for a rough next month.

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Ozzie is likely cooked

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Idk about that, granted I said he was likely cooked before the season started.

He has still been working counts better than usual, just not getting hits anymore.

Dubon likely will never have the output at the plate that he did in April though. That was way more random than Ozzie.

Here's hoping Ronnie back to form and can make up the difference

Wish we kept Heim.

Mateo is playing well and should get some starts at 2nd to give Ozzie a break.

I'm assuming the Ritchie thing is just to get an arm up. Haven't had an off day since May 11 and next one isn't until May 25.

Philly is 16-4 in their last 20.

This thread has some bad takes in it no offense. At the very least extremely hyperbolic.

Ozzie has been an extremely streaky hitter his entire career. What had made him valuable is he puts up power numbers. He is doing that this year.

Riley has been one of if not the best hitter on the team after Drake over the last 10-14 days. His barrel % in that timeframe is insane and likely not going to remains THAT high but should settle in a very good number. He is also putting a very large number of his balls in play as hard hits so 95 mph evo or more in that timeframe.

Olson has just been taking bad ABs but it’s only been like a week of him doing this.

Dubbon was likely always to see some regression to a mean. He is still immensely valuable because of his defensive versatility and if he ends up settling at a .700 ops for the season that’s major win. He’s still got a .771 ops right now.


Baseball is a 162 games long. There are ebs and flows


Why no posts about how Yaz has totally come alive? Or any other of the countless positive things people could be posting instead of going full doomer because we got blown out last night in a single game of 162

We still have the best record in baseball and a 7 game lead on Philly who will not continue to go 16-4 in 20 game spans


The Yankees are 3 games back in their division to the rays who are the second best team in baseball with one less win than us. I wonder if their fans are going full melt because they looked like world beaters and had a slight down week which happens all the time every season to every team

Meant to say like a week or so. My bad

I agree no one is melting

There are some bad takes though from knee jerk reactions

Yes, Ozzie has been streaky for most of his career. But with the exception of April, he has been ours guy bad for a year and a half with downward trend bat speed. That’s why I use the word cooked.