I just heard the Phillies have lost Harper to a pulled Hammy, and Schwarber to a pulled groin. Let's see how the Phils handle a little adversity with their great starting pitching.
Honestly with the way Phillies fans have been talking about Acuña and Strider.... Good. Im never the type of person to say that. But karma is a bitch ... And I'm an asshole
@@LockedOnBraves Yes 100%...... I think a team should have a team player spokesman, a captain that can sit down with the manger - coaches and maybe make a suggestion that might be needed to help the team, with the understanding of, no hard feelings of whatever may be the circumstances.
Thanks Jake for telling it like it is instead of talking about how they're still hitting the ball hard or some other statistic that means nothing at the moment. At this point this isnt a rut, this team just STINKS right now!!
I called your broadcast late. But jake, I agree with everything you said. The braves offense is pathetic. I don't see that fire they had in years past. And I don't see our manager starting one either. And why is that? It's almost July. I know I'm frustrated! Thanks Jake for the video!
I would like to see more of Short in short. At least he has good at bats and gets on base. Yesterday, after Wall, a great base stealer and our fastest player, lead off with a bunt single, and neither Duvall nor Arcia took a single pitch. They swung at everything.
I’m from Louisville, I have a UofL baseball tattoo, I played softball with his older brother. I’ve known him since he was in high school. But Duvall just can’t hit right now. He’s the bad ozuna and has been for awhile. He needs to be strictly a short end platoon guy at this point. Maybe we need to go Uber athletic in the of and give Eli white, and Forrest wall in the corners a shot. I’m sure snit will let him ride it out and we will turn it around but man I’m ready to see something change. All of that said Marcells ball should have gone out and we win.
Didn't know you were a Cardinal. Yea, I'm just ready to try something different. This lineup needs other ways to score than just waiting on Duvall to finally hit another home run.
@joemi1219: Of all the weeks to acknowledge being a Cardinal!😂😏 Sorry couldn't resist. Nonetheless nice having You at the table as a Braves fan. And as I am also a Browns (as in Cleveland and maybe St. Louis back in the day) Superfan I sometimes think what would have happened had the Browns drafted Browning Nagle!🤔⚾️🏈B.W.
Yes. Being quite whimsical and quite aware all at once. Other than of course Johnny Unitas (or Lamar Jackson and as a Browns guy it stings to say that) maybe the best known UofL Cards QB would be Erik Watts, son of the Legendary Pro Wrestler "Cowboy" Bill Watts.🤔B.W.
Adam Duvall = DFA. Bottom line!! Hard to believe he is getting millions for strike outs. Like you said, I have heard he is a really great guy but facts are facts and outs are outs. I'd go with Wall full time.
Hi Jake, everyday’er since last year, thanks for producing a great podcast. I know it would be costly, and the Red Sox are still very much in contention for a wild card spot, but what would it take to trade for Jarren Duran? Not a ton of power, but he gets on base and has some speed.
Baseball is an incredibly frustrating game. There is a reason the rash, quick acting people who love the game are only fans. You can’t be that way and succeed at the highest level. This team makes me want to gronk spike my phone and I think I’m pretty rational.
We need to start cheering for Duvall. Surprising loud. Maybe that’ll jump start him. Kinda like Philly did to Trae. The guy can hit it’s in the back of his baseball card. Be he needs a wake up call.
At this point, I think that the Braves not going to the All-Star Game is a good thing. Of course I would prefer that they were playing good enough to be All-Stars, but given our reality, I think our offense NEEDs this break to try to reset and adjust for the 2nd half and the postseason. Especially given the fact that this lineup regulars don't take days off, and can't take days off.
Question for all of the guys on here? If you were to go down our regular everyone healthy lineup how many guys would say that their offensive weakness is too much swing and miss?? To me it is everyone. We have not one single hit over power, put the ball in play, control the zone, control the bat guy. It’s our organizational philosophy to chase power and launch and if baseballs don’t fly we are looking towards a long summer at the plate.
I don't know why Braves fan seem to love Snit so much. I really don't. He's make changes at a turtle pace. He doesn't really go to bat for his players against umpires. He keeps players in the lineup through massive slumps. This whole let's not blame coaches and managers, it's the players who have to perform. Sure, but when their not performing, Snit's not letting them ride pine. Duvall should not be in the lineup. DFA him. His MLB career is over. The entire fan base was like, put Kelnic in the leadoff spot, yet Snit platoons Arcia and Harris, which was a disaster he refused to change a failing experiment until Harris got hurt. I think Snit is a horrible manager that's been lucky enough to manage a team put together by one of the best GM's in baseball history.
Jake, ur right. Braves have reached their low point. Nowhere to go but up. Seriously though, two thirds of the starting outfield (minus Kelenic needs to b upgraded
I do not understand why Snitker chose to let Duvall start in this game over Laureano... Laureano as you said has been solid since coming up... So why would you sit someone who has been crushing the ball with a top 5-10 worst hitter in all of baseball? I genuinely think if Laureano would have started we would have won that game today
Yep, Laureano should have been playing since the Braves were facing a right hander who Duvall has been terrible against. But Laureano has at least put up a .347 xwOBA against right hander, which is good metricly, even though his results haven't been great in this short stint.
Braves ranks for barreled balls. #30 in all 4 metrics. BA-xBA -.129 OBP -xOPB -.140 SLG-xSLG -.527 wOBA-xwOBA -.261 The Braves would rank #3 in BA, #2 OBP, #6 in SLG, and #6 in wOBA if the results matched the expected stats. I do think it's interesting how much it's impacting the Braves compared to the rest of the league. Even if we sort it by solid contact and barrels the Braves are still bottom 5. You can say "change your approach" but baseball is hard and they are crushing the ball. As a hitter, you want to hit the ball hard and the Braves are doing that. As for Laureano vs Wall... So, let's check the numbers. VS RPH pitching in 2024: Adam Duvall: BA 0.76, xBA .140, OBP .105, xOBP .167, SLG .087, xSLG .268, wOBA .091, xwOBA .189. R. Laureano: BA .174, xBA .268, OBP .174, xOBP .268, SLG .261, xSLG .555, wOBA .187, xwOBA .347. Forrest Wall: BA .308, xBA .230, OBA .400, xOBP .333, SLG .308, xSLG .335, wOBA .329, xwOBA .302. As we all know, Duvall cannot hit RHP. He was brought in to play against lefties who he absolutely destroys so this is no secret. So really it's Laureano vs Wall. Ramon has 23 ABs vs RHP and Wall has 13. So very, very small sample sizes here. That being said, Wall has outplayed Laureano thus far. Ramon has been pretty bad against RHP. Could be a bit of bad luck as his expected stats show but still pretty bad.
Duvall gives you no offense. And Matt Olson is my favorite player but the only question when he steps to the plate is: will it be a strike out or a pop up?
If Duvall is such a stand up guy, why doesn't he remove himself from the line up out of personal embarrassment. He's such a good guy I hate to make that comment but it's the truth.
As Ben Ingraham said, the White Sox are playing at a pace that will leave them with the the most losses in MLB HISTORY, about 120. And with their ace pitching, the Braves still lost.I was just stunned, I guess. You seem frustrated and angry, Jake, but I feel resigned and apathetic. It ain't happening this year. These Braves might not even make the postseason. Forget the World Series.
I still believe. They've played well against good teams and good pitchers this year. But then they just let us down in games like these and it's frustrating.
Ernest from Savannah any body other than Duvall is a plus you can not have a below 200 average the other team will find him no matter where he hits Wall and others are better do not need Peterson, Pillar or others just as bad what are your thoughts.
Too many easy outs in the lineup. Duvall pull hitter only at best 220. Arcia pull hitter many holes in his swing. Olson pull hitter only 220 hitter. If you are pitching to pull hitters get the ball on the outer half of the plate and you get a ground ball.
So they have beaten a number of bad teams as well. Look at their schedule since the season started. The loss today stings but the Sox have shutout more than a few teams that should have beaten them. The Braves are not the only team that is dealing with some struggles. The past two weeks have shown they are very much headed in a better direction. The last two weren’t good but it’s not the end all be all man
@@LockedOnBraves You're right but it seems when Olson is hot so is the rest of the team but when he's not they're not either. I've zeroed in on Olson I guess because he replaced Freddie Freeman and Freeman is doing really good in LA.
hey jake the braves are done we need joc peterson now but alex refuses to get star players i am sorry but its over for the braves i hope they fire alex soon
this is one of the wildest statements i’ve ever heard, AA has been great this year and i’m sure duvall will be gone by the deadline and we’ll get new acquisitions, but saying AA needs fired is objectively wrong
and also the braves are far from done, they showed signs of greatness this year and will figure it out eventually…. hopefully in october when it all matters
Alex invests in players the team needs. If it’s a star then he will but it would take selling the whole street to get some names and a lot of teams are in contention so they don’t want to sell at this time. AA is the most prolific GM in baseball without him no Sale, no López, no Jarred Kelenic, No Olson, no Murphy, no Iggy, no Pierce Johnson, no Joe Jimenez. Heck the 21 season ended the way it did because of him. Firing him would be the single dumbest thing you could do. The last few games Ozzie, Matt, and Marcel have cooled off and it’s showing in the past couple games. You can’t throw in the towel. Don’t let 2 not great games ruin a lot of good progress. Over the past 12-13 games they’ve scored 6+ runs in 7 games. They constantly work at making adjustments and bettering themselves and surely they will be doing that after tonight.
I just heard the Phillies have lost Harper to a pulled Hammy, and Schwarber to a pulled groin. Let's see how the Phils handle a little adversity with their great starting pitching.
Honestly with the way Phillies fans have been talking about Acuña and Strider.... Good. Im never the type of person to say that. But karma is a bitch ... And I'm an asshole
They were without Trea Turner for a time and did fine. That pitching staff has been it's real strength.
Okay if those two injuries happened at the same time they were probably doing some gay stuff in the shower
Excellent analysis of Duvall. I'm hoping Alex A. calls a needed meeting soon with Snicker about what to do with you know who.
Someone is going to have to tell Snit not to play him or he'll just run him out there every day.
@@LockedOnBraves Yes 100%...... I think a team should have a team player spokesman, a captain that can sit down with the manger - coaches and maybe make a suggestion that might be needed to help the team, with the understanding of, no hard feelings of whatever may be the circumstances.
Thanks Jake for telling it like it is instead of talking about how they're still hitting the ball hard or some other statistic that means nothing at the moment. At this point this isnt a rut, this team just STINKS right now!!
They have to find other ways to score.
the Laureono and Wall combination works fine. But Snit keeps sticking Duvall in there
He's loyal to a fault.
I called your broadcast late. But jake, I agree with everything you said. The braves offense is pathetic. I don't see that fire they had in years past. And I don't see our manager starting one either. And why is that? It's almost July. I know I'm frustrated! Thanks Jake for the video!
You're welcome!
This season is so frustrating
I would like to see more of Short in short. At least he has good at bats and gets on base.
Yesterday, after Wall, a great base stealer and our fastest player, lead off with a bunt single, and neither Duvall nor Arcia took a single pitch. They swung at everything.
Short has given some good at-bats. But history tells us he isn't an everyday player.
I’m from Louisville, I have a UofL baseball tattoo, I played softball with his older brother. I’ve known him since he was in high school. But Duvall just can’t hit right now. He’s the bad ozuna and has been for awhile. He needs to be strictly a short end platoon guy at this point. Maybe we need to go Uber athletic in the of and give Eli white, and Forrest wall in the corners a shot. I’m sure snit will let him ride it out and we will turn it around but man I’m ready to see something change. All of that said Marcells ball should have gone out and we win.
UofL? I'm fine with Eli White against left handers and Wall against right handers as a platoon.
Didn't know you were a Cardinal.
Yea, I'm just ready to try something different. This lineup needs other ways to score than just waiting on Duvall to finally hit another home run.
@joemi1219: Of all the weeks to acknowledge being a Cardinal!😂😏 Sorry couldn't resist. Nonetheless nice having You at the table as a Braves fan. And as I am also a Browns (as in Cleveland and maybe St. Louis back in the day) Superfan I sometimes think what would have happened had the Browns drafted Browning Nagle!🤔⚾️🏈B.W.
UofL = university of Louisville cardinals my Alma Mater.
Yes. Being quite whimsical and quite aware all at once. Other than of course Johnny Unitas (or Lamar Jackson and as a Browns guy it stings to say that) maybe the best known UofL Cards QB would be Erik Watts, son of the Legendary Pro Wrestler "Cowboy" Bill Watts.🤔B.W.
THink about giving Brian Anderson a shot. In the recent past he gave the Braves fits with defense and timely hits.
He out for like another 4-5 games with an infection
I'm fine with that. He's hit righties well over his career and was hitting lefties well at Triple-A this season. Give him a shot. Can't be much worse.
Adam Duvall = DFA. Bottom line!! Hard to believe he is getting millions for strike outs. Like you said, I have heard he is a really great guy but facts are facts and outs are outs. I'd go with Wall full time.
Or you could go with Duvall against left handers only, who has produced a 146 wRC+ against left handers this year?
It's a harsh reality.
Hi Jake, everyday’er since last year, thanks for producing a great podcast. I know it would be costly, and the Red Sox are still very much in contention for a wild card spot, but what would it take to trade for Jarren Duran? Not a ton of power, but he gets on base and has some speed.
Baseball is an incredibly frustrating game. There is a reason the rash, quick acting people who love the game are only fans. You can’t be that way and succeed at the highest level. This team makes me want to gronk spike my phone and I think I’m pretty rational.
Haha. Same.
We need to start cheering for Duvall. Surprising loud. Maybe that’ll jump start him. Kinda like Philly did to Trae. The guy can hit it’s in the back of his baseball card. Be he needs a wake up call.
Maybe. I'll try anything.
At this point, I think that the Braves not going to the All-Star Game is a good thing. Of course I would prefer that they were playing good enough to be All-Stars, but given our reality, I think our offense NEEDs this break to try to reset and adjust for the 2nd half and the postseason. Especially given the fact that this lineup regulars don't take days off, and can't take days off.
And maybe they just need the mental break before the second half.
Olson gets up to bat and swings first pitch and pops up after the pitcher just walks someone
He at least swung at a good pitch, he just missed it.
Question for all of the guys on here? If you were to go down our regular everyone healthy lineup how many guys would say that their offensive weakness is too much swing and miss?? To me it is everyone. We have not one single hit over power, put the ball in play, control the zone, control the bat guy. It’s our organizational philosophy to chase power and launch and if baseballs don’t fly we are looking towards a long summer at the plate.
I agree. This lineup was built to do one thing great, and that's hit home runs. Now that home runs have been nerfed, it's a real issue.
I don't know why Braves fan seem to love Snit so much. I really don't. He's make changes at a turtle pace. He doesn't really go to bat for his players against umpires. He keeps players in the lineup through massive slumps. This whole let's not blame coaches and managers, it's the players who have to perform. Sure, but when their not performing, Snit's not letting them ride pine. Duvall should not be in the lineup. DFA him. His MLB career is over. The entire fan base was like, put Kelnic in the leadoff spot, yet Snit platoons Arcia and Harris, which was a disaster he refused to change a failing experiment until Harris got hurt. I think Snit is a horrible manager that's been lucky enough to manage a team put together by one of the best GM's in baseball history.
I agree this year, Snit hasn't done enough to try and change things up.
Jake, ur right. Braves have reached their low point. Nowhere to go but up. Seriously though, two thirds of the starting outfield (minus Kelenic needs to b upgraded
I do not understand why Snitker chose to let Duvall start in this game over Laureano... Laureano as you said has been solid since coming up... So why would you sit someone who has been crushing the ball with a top 5-10 worst hitter in all of baseball? I genuinely think if Laureano would have started we would have won that game today
Yep, Laureano should have been playing since the Braves were facing a right hander who Duvall has been terrible against. But Laureano has at least put up a .347 xwOBA against right hander, which is good metricly, even though his results haven't been great in this short stint.
Yea, I'm not sure. Should have been Laureano.
2nd and 3rd and Duvall and Arcia automatic outs,Atleast Arcia is playing a gold glove SS
Should be able to live with him batting 9th if everyone else is performing.
Braves ranks for barreled balls. #30 in all 4 metrics.
BA-xBA -.129
OBP -xOPB -.140
SLG-xSLG -.527
wOBA-xwOBA -.261
The Braves would rank #3 in BA, #2 OBP, #6 in SLG, and #6 in wOBA if the results matched the expected stats. I do think it's interesting how much it's impacting the Braves compared to the rest of the league. Even if we sort it by solid contact and barrels the Braves are still bottom 5. You can say "change your approach" but baseball is hard and they are crushing the ball. As a hitter, you want to hit the ball hard and the Braves are doing that.
As for Laureano vs Wall... So, let's check the numbers. VS RPH pitching in 2024:
Adam Duvall: BA 0.76, xBA .140, OBP .105, xOBP .167, SLG .087, xSLG .268, wOBA .091, xwOBA .189.
R. Laureano: BA .174, xBA .268, OBP .174, xOBP .268, SLG .261, xSLG .555, wOBA .187, xwOBA .347.
Forrest Wall: BA .308, xBA .230, OBA .400, xOBP .333, SLG .308, xSLG .335, wOBA .329, xwOBA .302.
As we all know, Duvall cannot hit RHP. He was brought in to play against lefties who he absolutely destroys so this is no secret. So really it's Laureano vs Wall.
Ramon has 23 ABs vs RHP and Wall has 13. So very, very small sample sizes here. That being said, Wall has outplayed Laureano thus far. Ramon has been pretty bad against RHP. Could be a bit of bad luck as his expected stats show but still pretty bad.
Duvall gives you no offense. And Matt Olson is my favorite player but the only question when he steps to the plate is: will it be a strike out or a pop up?
Also, how about if Albies cuts down his swing when we have a chance to tie the game. Same thing for Murphy.
Maybe skenes can supply the power and some of these barrels will go out.
I like that theory.
Adam Duval hasn’t acted like he wanted to be in Atlanta all season,he’s been lack luster from the beginning
He loves it here. Has nothing to do with his lack of production.
Braves fans need to start booing them
If Duvall is such a stand up guy, why doesn't he remove himself from the line up out of personal embarrassment. He's such a good guy I hate to make that comment but it's the truth.
Nobody is going to do that.
Wouldn’t Flaherty and DelaCruze be nice trades,would be the perfect trade targets but I doubt the Braves have enough to get it done
Maybe Flaherty.
I get so angry with this team!!! I quit watching !!I listen to you and game replays!!!!!!
Thanks for listening. Hopefully the team gets better to watch.
As Ben Ingraham said, the White Sox are playing at a pace that will leave them with the the most losses in MLB HISTORY, about 120.
And with their ace pitching, the Braves still lost.I was just stunned, I guess.
You seem frustrated and angry, Jake, but I feel resigned and apathetic.
It ain't happening this year.
These Braves might not even make the postseason.
Forget the World Series.
I still believe. They've played well against good teams and good pitchers this year. But then they just let us down in games like these and it's frustrating.
Ernest from Savannah any body other than Duvall is a plus you can not have a below 200 average the other team will find him no matter where he hits Wall and others are better do not need Peterson, Pillar or others just as bad what are your thoughts.
Wall would be a perfect fit as leadoff hitter with all his speed he could hit 300 and steal lots of bases
Jazz or Rooker. If they are going to play like this I would rather not go to the playoffs. What happened to Brian Anderson?
Rooker is a DH only, as he has some of the worst metrics in the outfield defensively.
Jazz is overrated and will cost too much because of that. Rooker can't play in the outfield.
Too many easy outs in the lineup. Duvall pull hitter only at best 220. Arcia pull hitter many holes in his swing. Olson pull hitter only 220 hitter. If you are pitching to pull hitters get the ball on the outer half of the plate and you get a ground ball.
Seems to be the strategy for a lot of pitchers this year.
adam duvall got to go, he not getting close from hitting the ball
He has hit against left hander only.
He's looking rough.
What about Taylor Ward?
Would be a solid option.
Pathetic lol.....
That sums it up. The Braves game on Thursday, not the podcast (right.?)
@@LockedOnBraves The game, of course LOL. Not the podcast!
THIS TEAM IS HOT GARBAGE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
This week has not been great.
Braves finish under .500 thus season.
I'm not a betting man, but I'd take that bet.
I believe Duval has vision problems.?? He is type one diabetic.
Can’t believe he doesn’t get checked??
I think it has more with him being an aging player who's game doesn't fit the current environment.
They keep doing the same old caca win vs Good teams and lose to bad teams the only team that does that sht. Very disappointed. -
So they have beaten a number of bad teams as well. Look at their schedule since the season started. The loss today stings but the Sox have shutout more than a few teams that should have beaten them. The Braves are not the only team that is dealing with some struggles. The past two weeks have shown they are very much headed in a better direction. The last two weren’t good but it’s not the end all be all man
Duvall's numbers vs LH pitching are actually good. But he should NEVER face RH pitching for any meaningful ab's for the rest of the year. Horrific.
@@dougibele3217 Very true, so far he's been a 146 wRC+ hitter against them this year.
It gives me hope for the postseason that at least they rise to the occasion against good teams.
Olson is garbage right now, this team goes as he goes and he's not going anywhere now.
It can't be dependent on one person.
@@LockedOnBraves You're right but it seems when Olson is hot so is the rest of the team but when he's not they're not either. I've zeroed in on Olson I guess because he replaced Freddie Freeman and Freeman is doing really good in LA.
AA the Genius label is not looking so good right now, huh…
Not ready to say that.
hey jake the braves are done we need joc peterson now but alex refuses to get star players i am sorry but its over for the braves i hope they fire alex soon
this is one of the wildest statements i’ve ever heard, AA has been great this year and i’m sure duvall will be gone by the deadline and we’ll get new acquisitions, but saying AA needs fired is objectively wrong
and also the braves are far from done, they showed signs of greatness this year and will figure it out eventually…. hopefully in october when it all matters
Alex invests in players the team needs. If it’s a star then he will but it would take selling the whole street to get some names and a lot of teams are in contention so they don’t want to sell at this time. AA is the most prolific GM in baseball without him no Sale, no López, no Jarred Kelenic, No Olson, no Murphy, no Iggy, no Pierce Johnson, no Joe Jimenez. Heck the 21 season ended the way it did because of him. Firing him would be the single dumbest thing you could do. The last few games Ozzie, Matt, and Marcel have cooled off and it’s showing in the past couple games. You can’t throw in the towel. Don’t let 2 not great games ruin a lot of good progress. Over the past 12-13 games they’ve scored 6+ runs in 7 games. They constantly work at making adjustments and bettering themselves and surely they will be doing that after tonight.
been saying this for a while he goes after the cheap no name players instead of the good ones
It's Joc Pederson, and he can hardly play outfield. Joc is your big solution? You're fired!