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[Nightmarez]

Ohtaniiiii

Looked great.

Braves getting Folty to outduel Mad Max lol.

[Da Gyps]

Royals and Tigers...

A match-up of....baseball teams...I guess...

[Spencer 555]

Circa 2013

[Sanosuke]

Braves crushing Nats. I'm erect.

Why is Freddie Freeman so good? Also a note on ESPN Fantasy Baseball:

"Freeman has faced the lowest percentage of pitches in the zone among all hitters who faced at least 50 pitches through Monday's games, Mark Bowman of MLB.com reports.
Spin: Just 30.1 percent of pitches thrown to Freeman have been in the zone, which ranks last in the group of 189 hitters. It's a continuation of a trend from last year, where Freeman's 42.9 percent rate ranked 308th out of the 314 hitters who faced at least 1000 pitches. It's likely that Freeman will continue to get very few pitches to hit while Nick Markakis remains behind him in the lineup. That will help Freeman get on base and could give him a boost in on-base percentage leagues, but could cut into his home run and RBI totals."

People fear Freddie more than 98% of the league's hitters.

[KBHoleN1]

Freddie leads the majors in runs scored, RBIs, and walks. He's going to have a monster season now that the rest of the lineup is hitting well. But that stat about zone pitches might say as much about Markakis as it does Freeman. The lineup is working, so I hope we don't make changes as long as the offense is performing like this, but I see Preston Tucker hitting cleanup at some point - that will get Freeman some more pitches.

[Sanosuke]

Freddie leads the majors in runs scored, RBIs, and walks. He's going to have a monster season now that the rest of the lineup is hitting well. But that stat about zone pitches might say as much about Markakis as it does Freeman. The lineup is working, so I hope we don't make changes as long as the offense is performing like this, but I see Preston Tucker hitting cleanup at some point - that will get Freeman some more pitches.

I'm not gonna buy into the Tucker hype yet. They're walking/pitching around Freeman to get to Markakis most times, but that doesn't work very well because Markakis is an excellent contact hitter. I want the rest of the fans (not you specifically) to temper their expectations on Tucker. I saw some outrageous article saying it'll be a hard choice between Acuna and Tucker. I hate Braves media most times, especially lately in our mediocre years because they'll literally grasp at anything to cling to potential success.

[Spencer 555]

Yup. Freeman is a juggernaut. Been sayin he was underrated in drafts for about 3 years now.

Marez, what u think of my trade in a dynasty league:

Send: Lester, Lynn, Chapman

Receive: Urias, Finnegan, Karns, Clevinger.

My team is a fringe playoff team, and I'm trying to make the playoffs this year, but the goal is to try and really compete next year. I think I fleeced the dude because I feel like the combination of clevinger, karns, and Finnegan might very well outperform Lester and Lynn this year, and I only had to give up my declining saves asset (chapman) for Urias (saves is a bit of a strength for my team). What are you're thoughts on the SPs involved?

[Nightmarez]

Yup. Freeman is a juggernaut. Been sayin he was underrated in drafts for about 3 years now.

Marez, what u think of my trade in a dynasty league:

Send: Lester, Lynn, Chapman

Receive: Urias, Finnegan, Karns, Clevinger.

My team is a fringe playoff team, and I'm trying to make the playoffs this year, but the goal is to try and really compete next year. I think I fleeced the dude because I feel like the combination of clevinger, karns, and Finnegan might very well outperform Lester and Lynn this year, and I only had to give up my declining saves asset (chapman) for Urias (saves is a bit of a strength for my team). What are you're thoughts on the SPs involved?

I freaking love Clevinger. He's probably my guy among SPs this year. The other three are closer to dart throws to me, but I agree it comes down to the saves asset. Because I do realistically believe that Clevinger could supplant Lester decently well this year and getting some young talent is nice. I like Finnegan and Urias has the potential obviusly to pay off huge.

[Spencer 555]

Lolol true. Tucker will be a good fit to push acuna tho. If acuna struggles at all, Tucker is serviceable.

[Sanosuke]

They could just put Tucker at 3rd or rotate tucker as the 4th infielder to rest Inciarte, Acuna, Mark