Sometimes Chipper’s Too Outspoken
August 22, 2009 at 1:49 pm by Capitol Avenue Club under Atlanta Braves, Pitching, Quotes
And that’s mainly when he’s wrong. Take, for example, this article about Hanson. And I quote:
We’d have four or five more wins if [Hanson]‘d been here all year
I don’t know if it was money related or not. Maybe it was just to get him a little more experience. All I know is that our record would be a lot better if he’d been here from the start.
First of all, don’t lie. We all know it’s money related. You do too.
Secondly. Chipper, buddy, unless Hanson were hitting 40 home runs during that 2-month period, you weren’t going to win any more games. But let’s look at this from an objective standpoint.
The Braves played 8 games using either Kris Medlen or Jo-Jo Reyes as the starting pitcher before Hanson got called up. They went 3-5 in those 8 games. The three wins were won by scores of 8-7 (in back of a horribly pitched game by Reyes, the extra innings one in NY), 2-1 (behind a strong, 7-inning 1-run performance from Reyes), and 9-3 (behind a quality start from Medlen). The five losses were lost by a score of 4-0, 9-0, 10-0, 6-10, and 5-7. The 6-10 one was maybe the starter’s fault. The 5-7 one was a bullpen meltdown (this was during Moylan’s “I suck but Bobby’s going to use me anyway” phase). The other 3? Well, Chipper, if I’m not mistaken, you have to score some runs to win a game. That’s your fault. Not the starting pitcher.
This team might have one more win if they’d brought up Hanson from the get go. It clearly isn’t worth it. But don’t say we’d have about 4-5 more wins. That’s lunacy.
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We’d have 4 -5 more wins if Chipper and Mac knew how to produce, hell we’d have 10 more wins if they knew how to produce. As I was writing that I realized the bottom of the order was the problem in the beginning of year, now its the middle.
There’s a lot of games we’ve lost for various reasons. Bullpen meltdowns, playing the wrong player, etc.
Do you guys not like Chippers performance this year? His line looks pretty good, gets on base a ton. But his WAR is average, which is way down, obviously.
He needs time off, but when Diory Hernandez was the back-up infielder, you sort of don’t want to give him time off. Because Diory Hernandez sucks. Hopefully with Infante back, Chipper will get regular rest and be more productive.
Peter, I am doing another Cover it Live at 4 for the FOX game, spur of the moment, last minute thing…
http://www.statisticianmagician.com/
Diory is in Gwinnett…
No shit. That’s why I said now that Infante is back maybe Chipper will get some rest.
Geshh! Your nice… Anyways I never got a reply from you.