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mr.checkerboards said:
Here's the 1 thing about arcia.

I believe this upcoming year is the last on his contract..... They have Nacho in AAA, as a fan we all want Arcia replaced because he isn't good, but I wouldn't put it past the Braves to run him back because Nacho will be here in 26.
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Arcia has two years on his deal but he make $3M/year so it’s easy to move or cut
 
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zjcvols said:
Some Brian Snitker facts for our great clubhouse leader go get em' manager

- Braves are now 1-6 to start the postseason under Snitker (lone win, 2020 COVID season, won a 1-0 game in 13 innings)
- Braves are now 5-6 in Game 1's under Brian Snitker, 3 of those Game 1 wins in 2020. The other 2 in 2021. Only one series have they won where the lost game 1 (Milwaukee 2021)
- Braves are averaging 2.0 runs in their postseason opener. 6 of those runs game in the 9th inning in 2019 and 2022 where they were down by 4 going into the 9th. That's 14 runs in 64 innings, take out those two 9th innings and it's 8 runs in 62 innings.
- In 11 Game 1's under Snitker, the Braves average 3.4 runs per game. Again, 2 of those inflated by 9th inning rallies down big. If you take those two 9th innings out, the Braves number goes down to 2.8 runs.
- If you take out the COVID season, in eight Game 1's under Brian Snitker, the Braves average 2.75 runs per game
- Braves are 0-5 in elimination games under Brian Snitker. They are 5-7 in games where they had a chance to clinch the series.
- If the Braves lose tomorrow, taking out the 2020 COVID season, the Braves would be 3-6 in postseason series under Snitker.
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We aren't far enough removed from the WS for the majority of fans to realize this yet.

The whole "the Braves can't finish in the playoffs" narrative took hold quicker in the 90s because they came out of nowhere to make it to the WS in '91 and then did so again as a team expected to be good in '92. And then of course they went on to lose 2 more WS after that. The Braves completed a rebuild quicker than expected this time, but once they made the playoffs it was more of a steady build that culminated in a WS.
 
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Team has absolutely zero diversity of skill set. We’ve been standing around waiting for the 3 run homer for 35 years.
 
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There have been 3 postseason games ever with a team that struck out 15 times and walked 0

2 of those belong to the Braves the last 3 years
 
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zjcvols said:
Some Brian Snitker facts for our great clubhouse leader go get em' manager

- Braves are now 1-6 to start the postseason under Snitker (lone win, 2020 COVID season, won a 1-0 game in 13 innings)
- Braves are now 5-6 in Game 1's under Brian Snitker, 3 of those Game 1 wins in 2020. The other 2 in 2021. Only one series have they won where the lost game 1 (Milwaukee 2021)
- Braves are averaging 2.0 runs in their postseason opener. 6 of those runs game in the 9th inning in 2019 and 2022 where they were down by 4 going into the 9th. That's 14 runs in 64 innings, take out those two 9th innings and it's 8 runs in 62 innings.
- In 11 Game 1's under Snitker, the Braves average 3.4 runs per game. Again, 2 of those inflated by 9th inning rallies down big. If you take those two 9th innings out, the Braves number goes down to 2.8 runs.
- If you take out the COVID season, in eight Game 1's under Brian Snitker, the Braves average 2.75 runs per game
- Braves are 0-5 in elimination games under Brian Snitker. They are 5-7 in games where they had a chance to clinch the series.
- If the Braves lose tomorrow, taking out the 2020 COVID season, the Braves would be 3-6 in postseason series under Snitker.
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I'm not a big Snit fan (he makes terrible bullpen decisions IMO) but some of those numbers are a little misled. In 2018 and 2019 we made the playoffs but had no shot at winning the whole thing. This year to me is a lot like the 18 & 19 years, we don't have the dudes because of injury and that is not on Snit.

NOW, 22 & 23 are inexcusable. We should have at least gotten to the LCS in those years.
 
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LotteryPick said:
And that’s exactly what I’m saying. We got lucky, but MOST teams do. I’m not going to use that to discount the happiest sports fandom moment for me.
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The 1998 Vols got a metric ton of lucky breaks

- 4th down DPI call at Syracuse
- Collins Cooper missed FG in OT
- Stoerner stumbled and fumbled
- Facing a backup qb in the natty

Don’t care, still our trophy
 
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LotteryPick said:
And that’s exactly what I’m saying. We got lucky, but MOST teams do. I’m not going to use that to discount the happiest sports fandom moment for me.
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Shouldn’t impact fan happiness

Shouldn’t impact front office (or higher) decision making

Fan can be happy with whatever makes them happy

Decision makers can’t shrug their shoulders at the process because a random positive outcome
 
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TBrown said:
I haven’t read but for the haters
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Someone in the comments to that article made a point I hadn't thought about. Baseball has a lot of older fans who are probably more available to watch the games during the day and don't stay up really late. If the NBA had a similar age demographic, I wonder if they'd start slates of quarterfinal games at noon or 1:00.
 
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