Lindsay - Very good breakdown of Holmes’s pitching on the post-game podcast. I haven’t seen any stats to back this up, but is Holmes’ control better? He seems to be hitting his spots more and fewer balls are leaking into the hitters’ hot zones. (The Soler bomb notwithstanding). What are your thoughts on managing the workload for the pitchers in the minors. I saw Ritchie had an outstanding outing this week and went 7 innings. My thought was, if he’s got 120-130 innings in him this season, what’s he doing going 7 in the minors. Braves may need those innings.
I've actually got something on the prospects coming as a bonus newsletter and podcast tomorrow, most likely.
I'm with you, though - no need to shoot those bullets in Gwinnett unless they're trying to see if he can do it ahead of a call-up. I do know for a fact that AA was there to see Ritchie's start in person and left soon after, so I imagine he's aware of it and likely okay with it, for whatever reason.
IMO the turning point was really Holmes wriggling out of bases loaded, no out only allowing 1 run (and retiring Neto and Trout to finish!) The complexion of the game is radically different if Peraza and Neto hit their 7th inning double and single in the 2nd instead.
Yeah, but I wanted to save that for the MVP section. Should have found a better way to bridge those two half-innings, IMO. Start with B2 and finish with T3 and then use the MVP section to maybe talk more about his fastball usage today or something. Lesson learned
Lindsay - Very good breakdown of Holmes’s pitching on the post-game podcast. I haven’t seen any stats to back this up, but is Holmes’ control better? He seems to be hitting his spots more and fewer balls are leaking into the hitters’ hot zones. (The Soler bomb notwithstanding). What are your thoughts on managing the workload for the pitchers in the minors. I saw Ritchie had an outstanding outing this week and went 7 innings. My thought was, if he’s got 120-130 innings in him this season, what’s he doing going 7 in the minors. Braves may need those innings.
I've actually got something on the prospects coming as a bonus newsletter and podcast tomorrow, most likely.
I'm with you, though - no need to shoot those bullets in Gwinnett unless they're trying to see if he can do it ahead of a call-up. I do know for a fact that AA was there to see Ritchie's start in person and left soon after, so I imagine he's aware of it and likely okay with it, for whatever reason.
This 18 year old undrafted.Augusta outfiellder Merritt went.2 for 3, a double, 2 walks, no strikeouts, 3 rbis.
Played right field.......batting..313, OPS over .800
IMO the turning point was really Holmes wriggling out of bases loaded, no out only allowing 1 run (and retiring Neto and Trout to finish!) The complexion of the game is radically different if Peraza and Neto hit their 7th inning double and single in the 2nd instead.
Yeah, but I wanted to save that for the MVP section. Should have found a better way to bridge those two half-innings, IMO. Start with B2 and finish with T3 and then use the MVP section to maybe talk more about his fastball usage today or something. Lesson learned