Atlanta Braves Open 2026 Season with Shutout Victory Over Royals
In episode 352 of the Hammer Territory Podcast, Brad Rowland and Scott Coleman break down the Braves season opening victory over the Royals, 6-0, featuring a strong performance from Chris Sale and three homers from Ozzie Albies, Drake Baldwin and Michael Harris II.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the HEMORH Territory Podcast.
Speaker 1: This is episode three five two. My name is Brad
Speaker 1: Roland and I'm joined on this opening day for the
Speaker 1: Braves by my good friend Scott Coleman. Scott, in contrast
Speaker 1: to last season, the Braves are one to zero.
Speaker 2: How's it feel, hello, Brad, God bless that we are
Speaker 2: not going to start another baseball season zero to seven.
Speaker 2: That was they really put us through our paces.
Speaker 1: A year ago.
Speaker 2: But hey, a great win for the Atlanta Braves tonight,
Speaker 2: a clean win, six nothing over the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 2: The team pitched well, the team hit well, the team
Speaker 2: played really good defense just across the board. This was
Speaker 2: a perfect start to the season and hopefully a sign
Speaker 2: of things to come down the road.
Speaker 1: Absolutely an encouraging performance from the Braves to begin the season.
Speaker 1: And we should also say at the top for anybody
Speaker 1: that might be new joining us for the first time,
Speaker 1: we're going be coming back from the all season. We
Speaker 1: are Henry Territory. We are part of the Vallie Territory Network.
Speaker 1: We cover the Braves all season long and really all
Speaker 1: year long. And with that, let's mix it up. Engineered
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Speaker 1: what became a six nothing win for the Braves eleven
Speaker 1: hits only five US allowed. It really was kind of
Speaker 1: a cruise control victory. And that's not a huge surprise
Speaker 1: given that Chris Sales on the Mountain and generally was
Speaker 1: speaking when Chris Sales on the Mountain thinks are good
Speaker 1: for the Braves. But it was their first opening day
Speaker 1: at home in a long time. Some interesting nuggets along
Speaker 1: the way. They had an interleague game, which I thought
Speaker 1: was odd, and then I realized from Braves pr that
Speaker 1: actually was odd, the first time ever had interleague to
Speaker 1: begin the season. But what was your biggest takeaway? I mean,
Speaker 1: because we'll talk about this later on. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of line up discourse and fun stuff, But what
Speaker 1: do you want to lead with on this Friday night
Speaker 1: after a again kind of cruise control victory.
Speaker 2: I thought the lineup was I mean, the lineup was
Speaker 2: great tonight against Cole Reagan's, one of the very best
Speaker 2: lefties in baseball. I know Cole Reagan's is maybe not
Speaker 2: a household name for every fan base, but Reagan's is
Speaker 2: nasty from the left side. It gets a ton of
Speaker 2: swing and miss a ton of strikeouts, and the Braves
Speaker 2: did a fantastic job tonight with the bats. And truthfully,
Speaker 2: when you saw the lineup come out today, which is
Speaker 2: of course missing a couple of players, it was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, this is our lineup against lefties. At least
Speaker 2: for the first I don't know, a few weeks, first
Speaker 2: month of the season. The Braves were great and they
Speaker 2: got Reagans out of the game. He threw eighty pitches
Speaker 2: over four innings. They really made him work. They didn't
Speaker 2: really give away outs, and they had a couple of
Speaker 2: really clutch hits throughout the night. And I mean it
Speaker 2: was just a smooth, sailing game pretty much the whole way.
Speaker 2: A great start in the first inning Ozzie Alby's homeward,
Speaker 2: and after that it was basically all Braves all the way.
Speaker 1: We might discuss a little bit more of a lineup
Speaker 1: in a second, but what was the funniest thing, for
Speaker 1: sure was that Ozzie Alby's hit third That created a
Speaker 1: lot of discourse on the internet, including for me. I
Speaker 1: have to say, like, I didn't I didn't love that,
Speaker 1: but Ozzie, who you know, I've always been an Aussie guy,
Speaker 1: and look, he has always, basically until maybe parts of
Speaker 1: last season, been incredible against lefties, always like we used
Speaker 1: to do a thing on the show about like basically
Speaker 1: he was Mike Trout against lefties, like prime Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: So maybe he's back to that. I would love for
Speaker 1: that to be the case. But Ozzie hit third, and
Speaker 1: of course hits a home run in his first play appearance,
Speaker 1: and that light theater on a fire. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like a warm blanket. We're back everyone that
Speaker 1: kind of had I wouldn't say I want to say everyone.
Speaker 1: Most people that I saw did not love the Ozzie
Speaker 1: hit third, and it's like, hey, in your face, this
Speaker 1: is baseball. Don't forget you. You'll be humbled if you
Speaker 1: try it with your takes. And I was encouraged. I
Speaker 1: love Ozzie, but just generally speaking, that was fun to see.
Speaker 1: And also it's a reminder like he does have some
Speaker 1: ceiling from the right side, and we's maybe he saw
Speaker 1: that a little bit today. I don't want to overreact.
Speaker 1: It's one game, but I was encouraged.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. If we are going to get Ozzie Alby's back
Speaker 2: to the hitter he has been basically his entire career
Speaker 2: up until last season against left handed pitching. That is
Speaker 2: massive for the Atlanta Braves. It cannot be understated how
Speaker 2: big that is for this team in this offense as
Speaker 2: it tries to bounce back after two very down seasons offensively.
Speaker 2: If Ozzie's going to hit lefties, it is huge for
Speaker 2: this lineup. It's really going to give him a boost,
Speaker 2: especially while Murphy and Hassan Camera both on the injured list,
Speaker 2: who both hit lefties. Well, it's only going to help
Speaker 2: and just one game, but really encouraging. Both Ozzy and
Speaker 2: Michael Harris had a homer later as well, for two
Speaker 2: players the Braves are really hoping can bounce back and
Speaker 2: be more of the players that we have seen them
Speaker 2: be over the years. Really good signs. To have both
Speaker 2: Ozzy and Michael Harris homer tonight on opening.
Speaker 1: Day for sure, and Michael having a home run against
Speaker 1: a quality left hander as well, like him hitting righting
Speaker 1: is not hugely surprising him, and homer against the good
Speaker 1: lefty is really encouraging. And it was it was a
Speaker 1: rocket shot as well that it was probably what broke
Speaker 1: it open. Honestly, the Brais went up for nothing when
Speaker 1: that happened, and they were already in comfortable shape. Now
Speaker 1: we know that now, we didn't know Wily know that then.
Speaker 1: So that was a big swing. And then look Drake Balwin,
Speaker 1: not that we were worried about him at all coming
Speaker 1: off his rookie season. Immediately Homer's in the third ding.
Speaker 1: You know, Drake, it looks like a star to me.
Speaker 1: I think you've said the same, there's always the possibility
Speaker 1: of a little bit of regression, but not today he
Speaker 1: looked like Drake Balwin, and you love to see it. Basically.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about it a little bit so
Speaker 1: far of this winter and into the spring about how,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the issues that the Braves have,
Speaker 1: and we won't talk about that all tonight, about the
Speaker 1: pitching staff and all that stuff, but we have been
Speaker 1: saying repeatedly on the show the last couple of weeks, like, hey,
Speaker 1: that all matters, but if they hit a lot, it
Speaker 1: would be a lot that would be very helpful to
Speaker 1: overcoming that. Like you know, back to twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: basically just mash and everything else figures itself out. They
Speaker 1: kind of mashed in this game three home runs and
Speaker 1: if you do that at the rest of the three
Speaker 1: home runs in a regular basis thirty to win a
Speaker 1: lot of games would be what I would say.
Speaker 2: We really need to see the power come back for
Speaker 2: this team. And we know. I mean, that was the
Speaker 2: bread and butter of the historic twenty twenty three offense.
Speaker 2: Like every night, three homers, four homers. It was really encouraging.
Speaker 2: And I mean, what more can you say about Drake
Speaker 2: Baldwin a one hundred and ten mile an hour off
Speaker 2: the bat rocket ship that just cleared the right field wall.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it hit the wall with like
Speaker 2: two and a half seconds after we made contact at
Speaker 2: the plate. It was just a no doubt or really
Speaker 2: good for Drake.
Speaker 1: I mean, a player who.
Speaker 2: The sky is the limit. This year, I'm expecting a
Speaker 2: really special season from Baldwin, and tonight was a really
Speaker 2: great start again off of Cole Reagan's one of the
Speaker 2: top lefties in the American League for.
Speaker 1: Sure, love us see and even Marisio Dubon got in
Speaker 1: the actual the two run double in the seventh inning
Speaker 1: to kind of that was the final scoring for the Braves,
Speaker 1: but it was a collective effort ironically, the team's best player,
Speaker 1: Rondacunya was the only guy who didn't reach base, and
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about running at all, so that makes
Speaker 1: me feel better. If there's one guy that it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with my getting on base in game one,
Speaker 1: it's Ronnie, who was gonna be awesome no matter what
Speaker 1: I think. So yeah, across the board balance home runs,
Speaker 1: Austin Rile looked great as well, which is very helpful
Speaker 1: and a fun game. We'll talk about the pitching staff
Speaker 1: in a second, and like the run prevention aspect of
Speaker 1: this game. But Sale was great, superb defensively, like he
Speaker 1: was just one of those fun games. And they won't
Speaker 1: all be like that even when they win, Scott, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have some stressful nights when it's not like, hey,
Speaker 1: they're winning every moment of the game basically, but it
Speaker 1: is nice to have a kick your feet up victory
Speaker 1: on a Friday night, great weather in Atlanta Place was rocking.
Speaker 1: I was indoors freaking out about basketball games personally, but
Speaker 1: for everybody that was only watching baseball, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was honestly just a tremendous experience because the brave is
Speaker 1: just like getting off to a good start. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is nice, warm blanket here.
Speaker 2: We are really a great start. And I think it's
Speaker 2: fair to say, especially early in the year, as the
Speaker 2: Braves are going to be piecing this rotation together with
Speaker 2: Scotch tape and a prayer, they have to win Chris
Speaker 2: Sales starts like it becomes even more paramount that they
Speaker 2: win these starts. And of course when Sale is on
Speaker 2: the mound, I'm gonna take the Braves and their chances
Speaker 2: to win just about every night, no matter who the
Speaker 2: opponent is. But really a great, great start to the year.
Speaker 2: Sale looks sharp, really good defense. You mentioned that a
Speaker 2: minute ago. We can go into that a little bit
Speaker 2: deeper here in a minute, but I mean, really, just
Speaker 2: across the board, it was a perfectly played game, some
Speaker 2: timely out Sale ran into some trouble early on, but
Speaker 2: was able to get some timely double plays. It was
Speaker 2: just I mean, I mean, again, maybe we're all still
Speaker 2: scarred from a year ago when they started zero to
Speaker 2: seven and we're like making up new ways to lose
Speaker 2: games that first week out West, just really good, enjoyable,
Speaker 2: clean baseball game tonight and now hopefully they can keep
Speaker 2: it up and at least win a series to begin
Speaker 2: the year.
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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, let us discuss the great work of
Speaker 1: Chris Sale. We just talked about Chrisale a little bit
Speaker 1: in our first segment, but let's rolle down a little bit.
Speaker 1: Six shot innings not a huge surprise. Three hits, three walks,
Speaker 1: struck out six. It's kind of funny. We were as
Speaker 1: we if you're a new a listener you might know this,
Speaker 1: but if you're a recrreentless you probably would. We have
Speaker 1: a document. We go back and forth. Scott and I
Speaker 1: shirt some ideas with each other during the podcast. During
Speaker 1: the game, I should say about the podcast, and it
Speaker 1: was like, hey, christ all doesn't necessarily look incredibly sharp
Speaker 1: by Chris Sale standards. And you look up and it's
Speaker 1: six innings, shut up innings and six base runners and
Speaker 1: six riccounts, and it's like, if that was like a
Speaker 1: B minus Chris Sale start, we're all gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Everything okay, And Chris, it's like just a reminder of
Speaker 1: like how good he is because he can just do
Speaker 1: that without his absolute best stuff, and his best stuff
Speaker 1: was not necessarily president but he still lost.
Speaker 2: And I think, I mean, the first three innings, Chris
Speaker 2: had quite a few base runners and there were a
Speaker 2: couple of double plays that were very timely. It felt
Speaker 2: like the Royals were gonna get a couple of runs,
Speaker 2: and Chris really bared down and got a couple of
Speaker 2: key ground balls, and then a great defensive play in
Speaker 2: left field from Eli White. You know, I kind of
Speaker 2: half joked but half serious said in real time, like, hey,
Speaker 2: Eli White is probably not going to hit the level
Speaker 2: that Jerkson Profar was expected to hit for this team,
Speaker 2: but Eli White defensively in left field is a real asset,
Speaker 2: like a genuinely good fielder in left field. That was
Speaker 2: a huge catch, saved at least one run. Who knows
Speaker 2: where the inning goes if he doesn't make that play.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, it's it speaks to Chris Sales
Speaker 2: talent and ability when he was a little shakier. But
Speaker 2: you look up at the box score and six innings
Speaker 2: scoreless really settled into after those first couple of innings
Speaker 2: was pretty clean. I think he sat down seven in
Speaker 2: a row at one point. He was very much vintage
Speaker 2: Chris Sale, and that's a good thing because that's not
Speaker 2: always the case this early in the season.
Speaker 1: Right And actually, this is kind of a crazy stat
Speaker 1: from front of the podcast Nikowski, who you talked to
Speaker 1: a few days ago on the show People Can that's
Speaker 1: still relevant right now. I know they played a game
Speaker 1: now it's a season preview, but listen to that episode, sej.
Speaker 1: It was great with Scott. But he had the stat
Speaker 1: on Twitter that Sale only induced two ground ball double
Speaker 1: plays all of last season, and he got two tonight,
Speaker 1: which is kind of funny. Sometimes you kind of have
Speaker 1: some good fortune. He had the one in the second
Speaker 1: ending where he kind of wigged out of a paceloaded
Speaker 1: jam because of it. But look, it was a good pitch,
Speaker 1: good execution. I got a little worried when Ozzie's trying
Speaker 1: to turn double play always I'm a little bit terrified
Speaker 1: of Ozzie's throwing arm, But it was comfortably it was
Speaker 1: comfortably out. That was nice to see from Ozzie. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he got some help, but Sale just did
Speaker 1: Sale things, which I certainly was encouraged by. We talked
Speaker 1: about the defense, but it really was like really good
Speaker 1: all the way around, not only a mistake free but
Speaker 1: some high level plays. You mentioned that White Ronnie had
Speaker 1: a nice running grab. Ronne's defense spend a point of
Speaker 1: contention the last year or two. He was good in
Speaker 1: this game. Austin Radley and Met Olsen at the corners
Speaker 1: did what they often do, especially you know, Olsen's an
Speaker 1: elite defender at first base. Rally is always controversial, but
Speaker 1: still a solid to fine defender. And yeah, just the
Speaker 1: little plays and the big plays defensively, and that's maybe
Speaker 1: one thing they can do as well in this stretch
Speaker 1: where the pitching is not going to be maybe fantastical
Speaker 1: across the board. They don't really have a lot of
Speaker 1: places right now that you would point to and worry about. Defensively,
Speaker 1: you might want to have some more bats, like if
Speaker 1: profar I'd been playing left field today, it would have
Speaker 1: been a little bit more worrisome, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But they don't really have anybody that's like a butcher
Speaker 1: out there at the moment, which is nice.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, it's really going to help this team.
Speaker 2: And you know, Mauricio Dubon was challenged a couple of
Speaker 2: times early tonight, and especially in I think the first
Speaker 2: leadoff single for the Royals, and then Bobby Witt just
Speaker 2: smoked a baseball right at Dubon and he had to
Speaker 2: have a quick twitch in order to field it, flipped
Speaker 2: it over to Ozzy, and then Ozzy was able to
Speaker 2: get the double play with a nice throw, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna need that. And we know this is a
Speaker 2: wounded team right now and hopefully in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: a couple of months they're in a healthier, better spot.
Speaker 2: But playing things like clean defense and running the base
Speaker 2: as well, that really does add up over the course
Speaker 2: of one hundred and sixty two games, and just one game.
Speaker 2: We don't want to just forecast anything after one out
Speaker 2: of one hundred and sixty two games here, it's still
Speaker 2: very early. But again, man, just to cross the board
Speaker 2: really encouraging signs from the team, and we'll take it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about you. I'm I'm forcussing
Speaker 1: unbeaten at this point, I mean, how many wins could
Speaker 1: the Braves have thirty?
Speaker 2: Let's go for the start one sixty two and Oho
Speaker 2: is still in play as we sit here on Friday night.
Speaker 1: It is amazing. How will we the vibe shift based
Speaker 1: on a baseball game? One single baseball game March but hey,
Speaker 1: it happened, okay elsewhere we talked about the you know,
Speaker 1: the home runs, but you know Riley. Riley being good
Speaker 1: was encouraging to me. I think that we did talk
Speaker 1: about him a lot this winter, but for folks maybe
Speaker 1: just checking in now. It's not like we're low on
Speaker 1: Riley by any means, but it's worth noting. He just
Speaker 1: hasn't been a superstar level player in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, and maybe that's injuries. And I got people
Speaker 1: I think maybe they don't don't know me or us.
Speaker 1: What's where today? Like, why you guys still low on rally?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not really. I just think he's obviously good,
Speaker 1: but he just hasn't been all capital letters Austin Rally
Speaker 1: for a while. And one game kind of got supply,
Speaker 1: but he didn't get He did not record an out
Speaker 1: in this game, three for three with a walk, look
Speaker 1: great at the plate. Maybe it's the flowing locks I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of. I'm a fan of of Austin's hair
Speaker 1: choices these days. But another guy where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: that goes the right direction. I'd feel so much better
Speaker 1: if he was a star versus just like an okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not even okay, like a pretty good third baseman.
Speaker 1: To star is like a meaningful gap for Austin r.
Speaker 1: And I think he can maybe edge forward that star level.
Speaker 1: That'd be really nice.
Speaker 2: You know, the middle of the order tonight for the
Speaker 2: Braves really did a good job. And you mentioned Acunya
Speaker 2: kind of how many times? And has Ronald Acunya Junior
Speaker 2: gone zero for five with three strikeouts in a baseball
Speaker 2: game in his career.
Speaker 1: He didn't look didn't he didn't look right. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things where if if he had been like
Speaker 1: out of side, out of mine in the spring, somebody
Speaker 1: would send off the tweet like what's wrong with Ronald two?
Speaker 1: I mean, he did just leave Venezuela to the World
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic Championship. And I'm not worried about Ronnie at all.
Speaker 1: I'm sure someone is somewhere, but you're right, you don't
Speaker 1: often see him be as kind of like listless as
Speaker 1: he was in this sky. I think he had a
Speaker 1: challenge that he lost along the way as well, I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I will say no, no, of course not.
Speaker 2: And you know, the middle of the order though, Drake
Speaker 2: Baldwin hit a homer, Ozzie Alby's hit a homer, went
Speaker 2: two for four, Matt Olsen two for four, Austin Riley,
Speaker 2: you mentioned three hits in a walk, Like, the middle
Speaker 2: of the order really did a good job tonight. And
Speaker 2: then you also got some contributions at the bottom. Michael
Speaker 2: Harris had his homer and Mauricio Dubon had kind of
Speaker 2: the hammer in the seventh inning to close it all out.
Speaker 2: After a tough at bat from Eli White, Dubon came
Speaker 2: up and hit a ball to right center field and
Speaker 2: it was awful lefty. And that's something we've talked about
Speaker 2: on the show quite a bit that Mauricio Dubon has
Speaker 2: hit left handed pitching really well throughout his entire career.
Speaker 2: It's the rieties that he generally struggles with. But for
Speaker 2: Dubon to come up after having a couple of opportunities
Speaker 2: earlier in the game where he didn't come through to
Speaker 2: basically put the nail on the coffin and secure the
Speaker 2: wind Braves went up six nothing there. It was really
Speaker 2: big and again it was kind of an everybody eats
Speaker 2: night offensively other than Ronald Acuna Junior. And I mean
Speaker 2: I could not be less worried about Ronald even after
Speaker 2: a tough game tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were on safe page there. We did briefly
Speaker 1: discuss Ozzie hitting third, and if you have anything to
Speaker 1: add on that, feel free. I think that it might
Speaker 1: just be wi He's almost trying to channel the old
Speaker 1: version of Ozzy, like because if you got the old
Speaker 1: version of Ozzy against lefties, he would be the guy
Speaker 1: I might hit him that spot. So it's not crazy
Speaker 1: process wise. I think that it's a little bit hard
Speaker 1: to look at that lineup with the way Ozzie's been
Speaker 1: the last couple years, but it gains against the lefty.
Speaker 1: They Also, we did preview this quite a bit, both
Speaker 1: US and UH and Sean and Steven. The line up
Speaker 1: iguess lefty. This is always going to be dementure these
Speaker 1: first few weeks. That's just the nature of the way
Speaker 1: that things have broken, and like their big ad that's
Speaker 1: still healthy is Michael Scremsky, who can at lefties. So
Speaker 1: it's like you take him away. Uh, you know you
Speaker 1: don't have Sean Murphy even has sunk Kim like you
Speaker 1: don't have obviously Profar So I get why I look
Speaker 1: it that way, but you look up. I have to
Speaker 1: be honest with you. When the latter came out in
Speaker 1: front of Afternoon, Yes, Ozzie was a takeaway, but it's
Speaker 1: also like, Okay, Eli White is hitting sixth in the lineup,
Speaker 1: Jonah him is playing an opening day. It's just not
Speaker 1: what what you wanted to see. Probably, even if it's
Speaker 1: like it all kind of makes logical sense if you
Speaker 1: go through the lineup one by one. I know Alex
Speaker 1: talked about this today on the radio, where they are
Speaker 1: basically going to try to get Baldwin to play all
Speaker 1: thirteen games in thirteen days, and they basically want to
Speaker 1: target Jonaheim against lefties. That is logical, even if it's
Speaker 1: like you're maybe at the plate, you rather maybe play
Speaker 1: Kyle Farmer against lefty than Jonaheim. If you'll let's if
Speaker 1: it allows you to have Baldwin play every single day.
Speaker 1: That's fine. You know we're gonna see Don Smith at
Speaker 1: some point, maybe even tomorrow. But it's like just I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was processing in real time. Not that
Speaker 1: it was surprising, but it was kind of jarring to
Speaker 1: see that opening day lineup and like, hey, the bottom
Speaker 1: third of this is pretty gross. We kind of know
Speaker 1: that already, but it's also just like it's different to
Speaker 1: just see it in person.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And I think it makes sense now folks
Speaker 2: missed it. You alluded to it. The idea early in
Speaker 2: the year is that Jonaheim is going to hit and
Speaker 2: play be the catcher against left handed pitching, and that
Speaker 2: kind of makes sense to me, and I know there
Speaker 2: was a lot of conversations, so we figured we talk
Speaker 2: about it for a minute on the podcast, but you know,
Speaker 2: against right handed pitching early in the season, I think
Speaker 2: the Braves are going to be fine because you get
Speaker 2: Mikeystremsky in there. Dom Smith has historically hit right handed
Speaker 2: pitching pretty well, but against lefties, especially right now, this
Speaker 2: lineup is going to be pretty funky. And we saw
Speaker 2: it on opening day, and of course on opening day,
Speaker 2: everything gets magnified, Everything gets talked about more than if
Speaker 2: a lineup gets released on July fifth, right, But I
Speaker 2: understand what they're going with and if it means that
Speaker 2: Drake Baldwin is going to be in there basically every day,
Speaker 2: I think it's advantageous to get Jonah Him in there
Speaker 2: to keep Drake a little more fresh. They have a
Speaker 2: night game on Saturday, but then a day game on Sunday,
Speaker 2: so it'll be interesting to see how that kind of
Speaker 2: plays out. They're scheduled to face two righty's the next
Speaker 2: two games. But yeah, I mean this lineup when it
Speaker 2: came out, first of all, it was just good to
Speaker 2: have lineup discourse on Braves Twitter, like everyone is like, yeah, baby,
Speaker 2: we are back. We haven't played a baseball game in
Speaker 2: six months, and people are arguing over, well, why is
Speaker 2: Ozzie hitting third?
Speaker 1: And why is.
Speaker 2: Jonah him in there? And why is Michael Harris batting ninth.
Speaker 2: It was just good to have it back in our lives.
Speaker 2: And of course there was just one game, but well,
Speaker 2: I kind of get the feeling this is gonna be
Speaker 2: what Walt Weiss throws out there for the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks.
Speaker 1: I agree, And yeah, there's little stuff for sure. You
Speaker 1: know I listened to that. I know you did too,
Speaker 1: that twenty minute interview that Alex did, and he talked
Speaker 1: about the lineup as well, because it came out actually
Speaker 1: before he talked, which was interesting to get the real
Speaker 1: time in between lineup release and game reaction of the
Speaker 1: GM about the lineup on the radio. That's something that
Speaker 1: you don't usually get and that was interesting to me.
Speaker 1: But talked about for example, Michael being comforabdding ninth like
Speaker 1: they like his speed down there, at least that's what
Speaker 1: he said about weisslacking his speed. And also, look, Harris
Speaker 1: gets lefties. Is not been great for a long while,
Speaker 1: so that's not a huge surprise to me. The heime
Speaker 1: thing makes sense if you look at it a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I didn't love it at first. I do
Speaker 1: think that like Kyle Farmer is just better than Jonah
Speaker 1: him at pitting left handedst leeftendant pitchers. But I also
Speaker 1: get the the reaction and ramifications and it does it
Speaker 1: seem like from what Alex said again that they really
Speaker 1: are like centering on Dom Smith as our DH against
Speaker 1: Righty's like full stop. Like he pretty much said that,
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna go with that. Maybe Farmer is
Speaker 1: just a pure utility guy right now, like they do
Speaker 1: bonds to shortstop, so they like Farmer just becomes the
Speaker 1: utility guy, which is fine and all makes logical sense
Speaker 1: to me. I still will have the reaction I had
Speaker 1: at whatever time it was this afternoon about this lineup,
Speaker 1: but hey, it works, and when they face the riot tomorrow,
Speaker 1: it's gonna feel better. I think Michael Scrumsky's name on
Speaker 1: a lineup card will make me feel better because he
Speaker 1: is baber Ruth after all. But he's just a better
Speaker 1: player than some of these guys. And that was the
Speaker 1: plane all along, so it'll feel better than in the
Speaker 1: meantime TBD. But they scored runs today, so no complaints.
Speaker 1: I will just always say, if you're new to the pod,
Speaker 1: we do like to talk about process over results. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Ozzi should hit that should have
Speaker 1: hit third in this game because he hit a home
Speaker 1: run today, Like maybe maybe Scott will say that on
Speaker 1: the podcast, but it worked today. Hey, kudos, it works.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you win games, what else, that's all it matters,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who cares?
Speaker 2: How you know what they could hit Ronald Coccuna Junior ninth.
Speaker 2: If the Braves win one hundred games this year, I
Speaker 2: really don't care.
Speaker 1: I do like that was bait. I'm baiting you on
Speaker 1: opening or a crash out on Friday night. That's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that. If Ronnie hits seventh again,
Speaker 1: at any point, I'm gonna have to leave the podcast. Okay, Scott,
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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, Before we look ahead to the rest
Speaker 1: of the weekend and get out of here on a
Speaker 1: Friday nights, we should at least get on the record
Speaker 1: our predictions. Often we would have done like a show
Speaker 1: of this with with us, but you know, see when
Speaker 1: and Sean gave some of theirs. The way the way
Speaker 1: the calendar felt opening day, I hated it. By the way,
Speaker 1: while we're here, I hated that the rains we're not
Speaker 1: playing on Thursday. Hated it, like thirty five percent of
Speaker 1: the league is playing, everyone's getting underway, everybody's fired up.
Speaker 1: Seeing all the tweets, I'm like, oh, the Braces will
Speaker 1: play on tomorrow. That's that's not you know, it's weird.
Speaker 2: The Raids were originally supposed to open the season on Thursday,
Speaker 2: and then the date moved, so I don't know if
Speaker 2: that was TV network related or I don't know if
Speaker 2: maybe there was another event in the area and they
Speaker 2: were worried about traffic. I have no idea, but anyway, yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree, it was imagine that. I'd be funny that
Speaker 1: was the reason in Atlanta, where traffic is just a
Speaker 1: disaster every single day in my life. But right, no,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I remember that that same thing, and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm poking fun I also know that in the
Speaker 1: past we've discussed how annoying it is to have the
Speaker 1: second day of a season be it off day. That's
Speaker 1: not the case this time around. That's the that's that's
Speaker 1: the trade off. We had to wait it extra day.
Speaker 1: But now they have a game every day for two weeks,
Speaker 1: so we'll get baseball plenty. What that said, I want
Speaker 1: to know what you think of this baseball team. Now again,
Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to cheat a little bit, they're
Speaker 1: want to. Oh, I did not change my predictions. In fact,
Speaker 1: I wrote I wrote them down on the dock before
Speaker 1: the game today, so I wouldn't cheat. In fact, when
Speaker 1: you hear my one player prediction, you're gonna laugh based
Speaker 1: on what happened today. With that said, I will let
Speaker 1: you fire off as many as you want to Scott predictions,
Speaker 1: anything you want to get out there, and then tell
Speaker 1: me your National League East finishing order, and of course
Speaker 1: how many wins the Brave might get by the end
Speaker 1: of the year plus one from today.
Speaker 2: So if I had to pick one bold prediction, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say that Austin Riley finishes top five in NL MVP.
Speaker 1: Oh baby, it just.
Speaker 2: Feels like assuming he can stay healthy and Austin was
Speaker 2: iron Man up until the last two years. But I
Speaker 2: would say that Austin Riley receives top five votes in
Speaker 2: National League MVP. I'm gonna say he gets back to mashing.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say he flirts with forty home runs, drives
Speaker 2: in a million runs. Like I just feel really good
Speaker 2: about Austin. Maybe it's the luscious locks that he has
Speaker 2: grown out. Maybe it was the fact that he just
Speaker 2: crushed the ball in spring training and even before today
Speaker 2: getting on base four times was a great sign. But
Speaker 2: I'm very optimistic in bullish on Austin this upcoming season.
Speaker 2: Call it a hunch, call it a bounce back from
Speaker 2: a really talented player, but I'm all in on Austin
Speaker 2: Riley in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: And that's not crazy. I think people might think that's high,
Speaker 1: but Austin once had three straight seasons where he finished seventh, sixth,
Speaker 1: and seventh in MVP voting, so like he's showing that
Speaker 1: kind of upside in the past, so that's very realistic.
Speaker 1: I have two. One is a quicker one doesn't want
Speaker 1: to have like a number attached. I think Michael Harris
Speaker 1: is going to have like a true bounce back season,
Speaker 1: and I'm you know, I saw a thirty thirty out there.
Speaker 1: I'm not going with that necessarily. I think Michael Harris
Speaker 1: is gonna have like a one ten w RC plus,
Speaker 1: which may not sound sexy, but that's like a five
Speaker 1: win player.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, yeah, that's gonna be one of
Speaker 2: the most valuable players in baseball if he can do that.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do. That's kind of a kind
Speaker 1: of a bold shot, and I wouldn't like bet on
Speaker 1: that happening like one one B one, but I think
Speaker 1: that's that's in there. And then my more conventional one
Speaker 1: is the final one from earlier. Ron Akunya is the
Speaker 1: last person to win n L m VP that's not
Speaker 1: an actual alien, which is Shoyotani. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: do it again. I think Ronnie, despite the oh for
Speaker 1: five today, is going to win nationally nationallygue MVP, and
Speaker 1: he will. If he does it, that'll be two in
Speaker 1: four years. And uh Otani, by the way, has one.
Speaker 1: I believe if you go back to the American League,
Speaker 1: I think he's won four of the last five he
Speaker 1: was eligible for and the other one he didn't win
Speaker 1: was second to Aaron Judge. So it's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to beat Otanian MVP race, which is why this is
Speaker 1: kind of bold. But I think Ronnie is like maybe
Speaker 1: the only player in the National League who has the
Speaker 1: upside to be show Tommy and an MVP race. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so cold shot.
Speaker 2: Anyway, you know what if we get an MVP season
Speaker 2: from Ronald and we get a top five MVP season,
Speaker 2: from Austin Riley, like we're cooking with gain.
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny if you go through like the high
Speaker 1: and outcome of everyone. I thought about giving an Ozzie
Speaker 1: bounce back prediction because I think it's gonna be better
Speaker 1: this year. You just gave the Riley prediction. I think
Speaker 1: matt Olsen is like hard to go like high upside with,
Speaker 1: but matt Olsen is like awesome and everyone kind of
Speaker 1: knows that now. I think, hopefully if if all that
Speaker 1: stuff comes up, I mean, Drake Baldwin following it up, like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pathways to them being really good
Speaker 1: and some of those we just talked about. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to go to to too crazy with the
Speaker 1: optimism despite one game. Okay, let's go nationally East order,
Speaker 1: do you have one at the ready? I do?
Speaker 2: I do, And I'm gonna say this with my heart,
Speaker 2: I really do think and my he two. But I
Speaker 2: think the Raids are going to bounce back. I don't
Speaker 2: think we are going to have another just awful year
Speaker 2: like we had last season. That being said, I am
Speaker 2: very concerned about the starting rotation, like full stop if
Speaker 2: ten is as concerned as I can humanly be and
Speaker 2: one is not a care in the world. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: already at like a seven and we've played one game.
Speaker 1: I almost asked you earlier in the show to react
Speaker 1: to Alex's first answer today on six a eighty of
Speaker 1: the Fan about the rotation, but I didn't want to
Speaker 1: send you spiraling early in the podcast not related enough
Speaker 1: from I'm kind of asking you about it right now,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm with you, by the way on the rotation.
Speaker 1: We've been play our hair out for a little while
Speaker 1: now about that, and I think that answered it. It
Speaker 1: did not help Scott process things. If you missed it.
Speaker 1: Alex kind of downplayed all those things that he's said before, basically,
Speaker 1: but it was like, all right, man, cool, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: felt good about our rotation.
Speaker 2: Depth and the start of the offseason and we didn't
Speaker 2: expect there to be injuries and yeah, if you want
Speaker 2: to listen, I think it was six' eighty The fan
Speaker 2: Where alex talked for about twenty, minutes AND i, mean
Speaker 2: he says a whole lot of. Nothing he is very
Speaker 2: good at talking for twenty minutes and not actually saying.
Speaker 2: Anything BUT i digress to answer the. QUESTION i think
Speaker 2: The braves are going to bounce. Back, Unfortunately i'm really
Speaker 2: high on The, mets which just feels awful to say
Speaker 2: out loud on a. Podcast but If i'm trying to
Speaker 2: be at least somewhat, OBJECTIVE i will officially predict that
Speaker 2: The mets win The east by a game or. TWO
Speaker 2: i will say The braves take, second AND i do
Speaker 2: worry a bit about The phillies and their. Age they
Speaker 2: are really getting up. There i'll say The phillies finished,
Speaker 2: third BUT i think all THREE Nl east teams make
Speaker 2: the playoffs this.
Speaker 1: Year, YEAH i actually think this might be kind of.
Speaker 1: HOT i Think i'll get a similar to. YOU i
Speaker 1: THINK i might pick The phillies to miss the playoffs,
Speaker 1: narrowly like they probably would make, it but like they
Speaker 1: might be like the like the sixth, seed seven, seed
Speaker 1: kind of like they're they're on the they're on the
Speaker 1: they're on the. Fringe, MAN I i've Just i've been
Speaker 1: thinking about this all day. Long if you asked me
Speaker 1: a month, AGO i would have said up picking the
Speaker 1: race to win The National eeast me. Too it's. Hard
Speaker 1: it's harder to do that now with what we know about.
Speaker 1: Everything profar and. That profar and the and the pitching.
Speaker 1: Injuries we we kind of knew we've a month. Ago
Speaker 1: we knew About, murphy we knew About. Kim we did
Speaker 1: not Have profi or the pitching. Stuff that, combination combined
Speaker 1: with not doing anything else yet to add to the. Team,
Speaker 1: MAN i THINK i still might take The. Braves Maybe
Speaker 1: i'll be the homer every once in a. While i'm
Speaker 1: not usually the homer on the. Podcast i'll do. It
Speaker 1: i'll do. It But i'm also gonna say it's like
Speaker 1: an like an eighty nine to ninety win division. WINNER i,
Speaker 1: THINK i think The i'm not picking The braves to
Speaker 1: win ninety seven games LIKE i have at times in the.
Speaker 1: PAST i don't feel that it's, possible very, Possible BUT
Speaker 1: i wouldn't pick, that nor DO i think that's like
Speaker 1: reasonable to. Pick i'm gonna, say and look the the betting, Markets,
Speaker 1: fangraft et. Cetera all have The, Braves, phillies And mets
Speaker 1: within like two or three. Games so it's like supposed
Speaker 1: to be a tight race between those three teams for
Speaker 1: a good. Reason i'll Go, Braves, Mets phillies in that.
Speaker 1: Order AND i, say maybe my boulder prediction is that
Speaker 1: no one wins more than ninety in The National. EAST
Speaker 1: i think we get like a almost like a three
Speaker 1: way race the whole, time but like they all finish
Speaker 1: between like eighty five and ninety at the, end so
Speaker 1: there's no. Separation it'd be, fun it also be. Terrifying
Speaker 1: it'd like be a lot of tense games late this.
Speaker 1: Season Then i'll, Go i'll Go, Braves, Mets. PHILLIES i
Speaker 1: tend to pick The mets, too but we can't both
Speaker 1: have The mets that, now, guess no, Way i'll take
Speaker 1: them on this. One on, total do you have A, SCOTT.
Speaker 2: I will say The braves win eighty nine games and
Speaker 2: they are the number one wild.
Speaker 1: Card i'll say ninety flat and a one game division
Speaker 1: win over The. Mets so we're pretty much the exact.
Speaker 1: Same But i'm just gonna sound cooler to the homers around,
Speaker 1: us so you know, what you, know you don't have
Speaker 1: to see people in the wild LIKE i cover games
Speaker 1: in person and people yell at me a home with The.
Speaker 1: Braves i'm.
Speaker 2: Kidding the eternal, optimist never wavering in his support of
Speaker 2: his fandom for his.
Speaker 1: Team so it really is so funny people that we
Speaker 1: might have some new people, tonight but especially in the
Speaker 1: last year and a. Half this is not unique to this.
Speaker 1: Situation Have this is WHEN i cover The hawks as.
Speaker 1: Well when the team doesn't do, WELL i get accused
Speaker 1: of being super high homework. Guy when the team does,
Speaker 1: WELL i hate the team And i'm too low on the,
Speaker 1: team which which is. Interesting i'm just SAY i don't
Speaker 1: Think alexanthopolis is the dumbest person, alive unlike my mentions
Speaker 1: every single. Day for, example NOW i have my, qualms
Speaker 1: we shared them on this podcast.
Speaker 2: Already he, ANYWAY i agree that's a great way to put.
Speaker 2: IT i do not think That Alex nthopolis is the
Speaker 2: dumbest person on. Earth BUT i do think he has
Speaker 2: maybe lost a couple of miles on his fastball and
Speaker 2: he's having to figure some things, out or there could
Speaker 2: be some real.
Speaker 1: Problems, YEAH i think it is very. Reasonable in, fact
Speaker 1: again we've given many a critique this, winter so we
Speaker 1: were not like pomp pumming For alex this. Winter in,
Speaker 1: fact we're not on this. PODCAST i think it's very
Speaker 1: reasonable to be lower on him right now than people
Speaker 1: have been in the. PAST i also think it's fair
Speaker 1: to say he's not a, buffoon AND i think he's
Speaker 1: been characterized that way in slip. Circles, anyway that was
Speaker 1: just an example of my too high to low thing around.
Speaker 1: Here so unless you have more, Predictions, scott we can
Speaker 1: we start getting out of. Here The braves have two
Speaker 1: more games we're recording This friday, night two gour games this.
Speaker 1: Weekend oh, QUICKLY i, forgot and so right. Now shouts
Speaker 1: To Jason, hayward who retired Today brave's. LEGEND i gotta,
Speaker 1: say one of my personal favorite. PLAYERS i know he
Speaker 1: was to some. DISAPPOINTING i, MEAN i get. It he
Speaker 1: was supposed to be Like Hank aaron and he, wasn't
Speaker 1: and that's, fine but he also had a heck of
Speaker 1: a career and was also very good for a long.
Speaker 1: Time like to call that guy a, bust WHICH i
Speaker 1: saw even, Today i'd be, like, oh what a Bus i'm,
Speaker 1: like are you? Kidding? No, stop don't do. That great. Career,
Speaker 1: great great guy by the, way by all accounts like
Speaker 1: an awesome. GUY i Love jay and shouts to him
Speaker 1: on a nice.
Speaker 2: Career one of the coolest moments In braves in Recent
Speaker 2: braves history Was jason hayward first game of his. Career opening,
Speaker 2: day Turner field is going, crazy and what does he
Speaker 2: do as one of the most hyped prospects in years
Speaker 2: but launches like a four hundred and thirty foot home
Speaker 2: run into the. Bullpen Turner field went. NUTS i, know
Speaker 2: people who were there say it was one of like
Speaker 2: the three or four loudest moments they ever heard at that.
Speaker 2: Stadium just and also an all time call By Chip,
Speaker 2: carrey which is funny because you, KNOW i Think chip
Speaker 2: has a maybe isn't the everyone's favorite, Announcer But chip
Speaker 2: nailed the. CALL i, mean it was just an awesome
Speaker 2: moment and very happy For. Jason he made a boatload of.
Speaker 2: Money he is a beloved hero In chicago because he
Speaker 2: had like the famous mid inning speech that kind of
Speaker 2: rallied The cubs after they were almost on the brink
Speaker 2: of blowing The World. Series like just a really good
Speaker 2: career and, sure when you're annoyed as the Next Hank
Speaker 2: aaron at age, nineteen age, twenty it's impossible to live
Speaker 2: up to. That it, like the expectations could not be.
Speaker 2: Higher it was such a fricking shame that he had
Speaker 2: the wrist injury a couple of years into his. Career
Speaker 2: he also got hit in the face by a fastball
Speaker 2: a little bit later in his. CAREER i can only
Speaker 2: imagine what that does to your. PSYCHE a player who
Speaker 2: had some really bad injuries for a hit or but
Speaker 2: really happy For jason went Out World series ring boatload of.
Speaker 2: Money as you, said, well, liked, well revered in the,
Speaker 2: clubhouse a leader in the last couple of. Years, like
Speaker 2: congrats To. JASON i hope you have a nice.
Speaker 1: Retirement, yeah for. Sure awesome. Career by the, way five
Speaker 1: Tycle Go glover wasn't all star, like just was a great,
Speaker 1: Player so shouts to. Him The brace play On saturday
Speaker 1: nights On Big Fox NATIONAL Tv, fox It's Michael waka
Speaker 1: Against Ronaldo. Lopez we won't do the whole thing. Now
Speaker 1: all odds On ronaldo's. Velocity, obviously if you've been following this,
Speaker 1: closely he had a huge tickdown and velocity in this
Speaker 1: Final spring start to the point where everyone's acknowledging, it
Speaker 1: Even alex that he met With ronaldo after, all because
Speaker 1: he was, like what's going. On everyone's saying the right.
Speaker 1: THINGS i have to see, it So i'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to see him throw n ninety four to ninety five.
Speaker 1: Again but we'll. See maybe maybe he'll do it On.
Speaker 1: Saturday if he, Doesn't i'm gonna worry a, lot But
Speaker 1: i'll give him the benefit of the doubt that everyone's
Speaker 1: saying that he ticked back up this week in the,
Speaker 1: Bullpen so hold on to your.
Speaker 2: Hats, YES i am going to be extremely interested in
Speaker 2: The Radar gun reading On saturday night At Truest, park.
Speaker 1: More so than MAYBE i won't say, ever but certainly
Speaker 1: in the in the in the nine nine percentile of
Speaker 1: my interest in The Radar gun would Be, saturday and
Speaker 1: then The sunday finale is an afternoon. Game It's Great
Speaker 1: homes Against Seth lugo in the. Finale and as, Always
Speaker 1: i'm pretty much ALWAYS i won't say always, always but
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the. Time we have a show
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Speaker 1: this podcast launch ten plus years ago now because we're Old,
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Speaker 2: Not a, thing AND i will echo exactly what you.
Speaker 2: Said great to have baseball. Back appreciate everybody sticking with
Speaker 2: us all off season. Long but now it's go time
Speaker 2: and a great start for The braves.
Speaker 1: Tonight great.
Speaker 2: Win want to, know get that bad taste out of
Speaker 2: everyone's mouth after a really challenging spring. Training but let's
Speaker 2: go and hopefully a couple more wins this weekend would be.
Speaker 2: Awesome and as you, said well have plenty of content
Speaker 2: in the days and weeks to.
Speaker 1: Come and with that, SAID i hope It's friday to.
Speaker 1: Night get that in. MIND i hope that my team
Speaker 1: and your team play In indianapolis in eight. DAYS i
Speaker 1: hope for both of our, sakes and THEN i can't
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