re: The ATL Thread 7/13: Mets @ Barves

Add a few batteries for old times sake.

There's a number of guys that throw 98mph, but kimbrels must look 102 because I dont see ridiculous swings against those guys like I do kimbrel. Chapman is the only guy in the same class as kimbrel.

Barves win

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Damn nats keep winning. Their collapse is coming

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I don't think they will collapse. The Mets are a much better candidate for that. That said, they have to have a rough stretch where they lose 7 of 10 or something. They will start to feel the pressure soon if we stay within 3 or 4 games of them.

I'm just saying, they have to have a big injury (ala beachy, Simmons, venters, vicaino for the braves, gee, bay, pelfrey-mets, Halliday,utley,Howard-phillies, Stanton, bonifacio, Ramirez (hurt recently)-marlins) that will throw them off. And yes, I know werth has been hurt all year but I think thats been a blessing since its allowed Harper to be called up and be their spark plug/pizzazz.

We are 4 games back, and at the beginning of the year I thought we had no shot; however, now I believe we make a trade at the deadline and continue better hitting combined with a nationals rut that allows this division to come down to the wire

Be interesting how well they do w/o Stras

All their injuries have occurred at positions of substantial depth. They will probably have an injury at some point that will really hurt them. Also they havent really gone through a stretch where they can't buy a win. They will hit this patch at some point, as almost every team does almost every season. This is when the braves will strike. The braves have been up and down all year long, the nats have mostly only been up, and the braves are still only 4 back. Nats should have a much bigger lead by now. It's like a basketball game where one team is dominating all game, you look up at the scoreboard at halftime, and it's surprisingly just a 6 point game.