re: 2019 Atlanta Braves season long in-game thread

Sounds like Dansby will be back Friday or Saturday. I guess you slot him in behind Donaldson. Can’t move Ozzie out of 2 right now.

That will be a welcomed return.

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Good thing Dansby is coming back

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not so fast my friend

today on the braves reddit someone named bravesthrowaway66 created an account and said they worked in the front office and were passing along info. the first piece of info was, paraphrasing

riley hurt his knee, it's pretty severe, you will know I am legit when you see him go on the DL today or tomorrow

so then like 5 hours later they announce riley to the DL so obviously this dude is legit; also the mods confirmed that he provided them proof that he worked in the front office

the other info he posted that I can remember:

dansby rehab is not going great and not to expect him back until late august/early september

braves made offers to the blue jays for stroman and sanchez

marlins wanted pache, riley, and anderson for realmuto; FO thought Realmuto would be re-signable; alex wont give up big prospects unless he feels someone is re-signable

Luke jackson not comfortable in the closer role and wants to be middle relief; AA loves him at his value and lots of teams reached out at the deadline about him

braves checked in on greinke at the deadline but that was already reported

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marlins wanted pache, riley, and anderson for realmuto

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I'll have what Jeter is smoking. Holy frick. That's the kind of prospect haul you ask for if you're looking to trade an Acuna or Freeman level player with more than two years of control left.

Yeah it wasn’t necessarily damning. I suppose disclosing Riley and Dansby’s injuries could be used as intel for other teams maybe.

I remember the Marlins being dickheads to us about Realmulto, asking ridiculous requests for him.

The whole JD “is too expensive” next year was probably the most intriguing part. With Riley possibly injured, coupled with his troubles with the breaking balls, JD is becoming a near must-sign piece for next season. I honestly don’t know what the 3B market looks like for the MLB, but at the same time it would be hard to fault JD if he goes after as much $$$ as possible at 34 years old next season. Although he’s said before that he’s happy to be in ATL.

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It is clear as crystal that Jackson is more comfortable in middle relief as opposed to closing.

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Not really. He looked like shite yesterday and was shitty last year when he wasn't the closer.

His problem is he is a one pitch pitcher just like Gausman (slider for Luke, splitter for Gaus). Hitters just spit on his nasty sliders and wait on him to hang one or throw his terrible straight-as-an-arrow fastball. It's extremely hard to succeed with one effective pitch unless that pitch is a cutter and you are Mariano Rivera.

Luke should probably go the Sergio Romo/Turk Wendell route and just throw his slider 80-90% of the time. I realize he has been unlucky this season with batted ball luck, but the guy also gives up a lot of hard contact and too many walks/dongs.

And we’re making another average pitcher look like degrom.

one of those nights...

Hell yeah, love that show.