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2017 Atlanta Braves Offseason Thread: Acuna #1 by multiple sources

The Twins ate up almost all of Garcia and Recker's contract. It was a money dump to acquire a controllable higher priced starter.

Essentially if we land said starter, he could help for this season, next season, and even next next season.

Also, looks like Sims will take Garcia's spot in the rotation even though Blair is starting Wednesday.
 
I am highly skeptical that the Braves end up acquiring Sonny Gray (and frankly hope they do not).
 
Folty showed a lot of maturity tonight. Didn't have everything working but he battled to the end.
 
With the way Camargo is playing what are they going to end up doing with Dansby for the rest of the year? Any option to send him back to AAA for reps? Not sure how all of that works.
 
Get a pitching machine that is capable of throwing sliders, make him hit/lay off 1,000 sliders per day in the cage. Done.
 
Learn to hit and field. Kind of important in baseball.
 
Too bad they didn't make this decision a month ago. Hopefully, this regime will learn from this mishandling.
 
Yep. Hope The other kid can keep it up. Been playing well so far.
 
I think the root cause of the Dansby mishandling is Snitker being on a one year contract, and thus being incentivized to win as many games as possible. So, with Camargo being the "hot hand," he wanted to play him over Dansby. This is obviously a bit of an issue, as the priority for the team right now should be developing players, but the front office kind of asked for this by just giving Snit a one year deal.

On Dansby specifically, looking at advanced stats, Dansby's biggest issue this year has been bad luck --- his batted ball profile is essentially identical to last year, as are walk and K percentages, but this year his BABIP is .266, rather than .383 like it was in his brief stint last year.

So, last year he looked a lot better than he actually was, this year he looks a lot worse than he actually is.
 
GPDeac said:
I think the root cause of the Dansby mishandling is Snitker being on a one year contract, and thus being incentivized to win as many games as possible. So, with Camargo being the "hot hand," he wanted to play him over Dansby. This is obviously a bit of an issue, as the priority for the team right now should be developing players, but the front office kind of asked for this by just giving Snit a one year deal.

On Dansby specifically, looking at advanced stats, Dansby's biggest issue this year has been bad luck --- his batted ball profile is essentially identical to last year, as are walk and K percentages, but this year his BABIP is .266, rather than .383 like it was in his brief stint last year.

So, last year he looked a lot better than he actually was, this year he looks a lot worse than he actually is.
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or the fact that he cannot hit a slider to save his life...last time i saw, he was hitting something like .080 against sliders. pitchers will expose that.
 
YoungBuck95 said:
or the fact that he cannot hit a slider to save his life...last time i saw, he was hitting something like .080 against sliders. pitchers will expose that.
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Yeah. Bad luck is cancelled out by the law of large numbers. Further, he has the 22nd best fielding percentage amongst MLB SS. That's bad. He wasn't ready this season.
 
DeacsOrDie said:
Yeah. Bad luck is cancelled out by the law of large numbers. Further, he has the 22nd best fielding percentage amongst MLB SS. That's bad. He wasn't ready this season.
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Fielding percentage is probably the worst stat in all of baseball, and whether he can hit a slider or not, when he puts the ball in play he should still be hitting about .300. The fact that he is hitting in the .260s is bad luck, especially given his line drive rate.
 
The fielding % rate is on par with the good vs. bad defensive SS's. You think dansby has been fielding the ball well this year?

He's not hitting .260. He's hitting .213
 
Agree that fielding % is not the best means to determine defensive prowess.

According to Fangraphs, Dansby Swanson is #15 out of 30 MLB SS in defensive rating. So to date in 2017, Dansby is adequate defensively. FWIW, Andrelton Simmons is still the #1 rated defensive SS according to Fangraphs.

The top 5 are:

1. Simmons
2. Jose Iglesias (DET)
3. Brandon Crawford (SF)
4. Didi Gregorious (NYY)
5. Alicides Escobar (KC)
 
The Fangraph top 5 are both in the top 7 in fielding %.
 
In his book, Keith Law calls fielding percentage "one of the most useless stats baseball has ever seen." There is not a single major league team that uses it for any purpose.
 
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