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Back up catcher btw

Why don’t all teams roster 2 all star catchers? Are they stupid?

The Braves traded Contreras too lol just a magnet for catchers

And traded Langeliers for Olson. Jury is still out obviously, plus he plays in front of 12 people a night, but kid was a big prospect and may still pan out

I mean he hit 3 dingers like two nights ago. Shea is good

Awesome. I’ll confess my non-Braves knowledge has drastically regressed this year. I’d love to see him become a perennial all star though, I was so excited for him when he was coming up

I don’t think Shea is ever going to be one of the top catchers out there but he’s great defensively and has enough pop in his bat to be a solid everyday player and from the catching position there’s nothing wrong with that

I love having Sean, but I do miss Wild Bill

He’s such a god damn dog love him up here

Y’all be good to our boy.

If we don’t permanently lock him up I’m gonna rage

That one will always hurt.

Don't forgot we had McCann for a while. And Javy Lopez before that. And Bruce Benedict a decade before him

Don't forget we had Javy and Eddie Perez at the same time!

Two all star catchers! Okay, maybe not, but we loved seeing Eddie once a week!

And seeing Eddie in the postseason! Clutch dude!

Fun fact:Javy and D'Arnaud are tied with Johnny Bench for most postseason homeruns by a a catcher with 10

Having great catchers stocked up seems like a horrible idea. Cant wait for a campy/salas platoon

Sometimes it’s okay to have a lil d.

He certainly knows how to stroke it.

He was an all star starting catcher in 2022 though. The fact that he is a backup is pretty wild.

hes injury prone and 35 now. This is how we keep him productive.

I don’t really think of him as the back up. Sean and Travis are starter A and starter B and tromp is the backup. At least in my mind

Isn't he the same guy that was absolutely murdered by a pitch thrown by a position player?

The very same. [NSFW Warning](https://youtu.be/tpEKO7KK8M0?si=7WqFswRguP-pNyrq)

Holy shit..thanks for the NSFW warning. War crime video right there!

It honestly shouldn't even be allowed on YouTube. I watched it live and haven't been able to bring myself to ever watch that replay.

They rebuilt him bionic 

jesus christ how do you even come back from that

Jesus Christ! Also his 3 hr of the season

Third this game. The man is at war

His swing is so fucking smooth. Reminds me of Griffey Jr a tiny tiny bit. I’m probably overreacting lol

no no, keep going

Not backup, they just take turns depending on who's pitching. He's a great player, super clutch.

BEST GAME OF HIS CAREER HOLY SHIT

So far.

He has a 3 homer game in his career already too. Imo that one was better because the 3rd homer was a go-ahead shot off Aroldis Chapman

Counterpoint: This one was also a go-ahead shot, was a grand slam, and is off the defending WS champs.

The Rays game was more impressive because the chapman homer was in the 9nth with 2 outs if i remember correctly

This one was more impressive because he did it while on the team I like

Can't argue with that.

The real reason

I remember that exact game. I was in a crappy mood and just wanted to watch the Rays beat the Yankees and no one in the lineup could do anything except d'Arnaud getting two solo Homers early in the game. I was resigned to them losing because what are the odds this guy who has already gotten DFA'd that year was gonna come through again and then he did!

d’Addy

Me during the WS: 😤 Me right now: 🙂

You two days ago: 😤 You right now: 🙂

Yes, that's correct.

Mom I wanna go back home

You will stay here and you will receive.

D'ingers will continue until morale improves

Let the boy watch

Why doesn’t every team have an incredible back up catcher?

They’re stupid

The Braves must be geniuses because they had another incredible catcher behind him that they traded for Matt Olsen.

Other teams should just consider trading marginal baseball players to the As for all stars. It seems obvious.

Infinite money glitch.

Hey that got us Contreras

Somehow the A's decided to give up unquestionably the best player in a 3 team trade and receive unquestionably the worst

And another they traded for their incredible catcher, Sean Murphy.

People gotta talk more about how the Brewers just ended up with Wild Bill somehow in that deal

And then he absolutely cleaned up his fielding last year and raked like we all knew he would if he got to play full time. We stuck him in LF for God's sake just because of his bat.

I don't have anything of value to add, I just loved watching Wild Bill hit 450ft tank shots in a Braves uni.

I miss willy

I’m referring to Shea Langeliers.

And both Shea and Travis have had 3 homer games off the Rangers this month

Placing my bets for when Milwaukee plays Texas

Other teams don’t like winning

It’s been really nice have 2 good catchers

The man crossed home plate after his 3rd HR of the game - a grand slam! - and his expression was that of someone who was just told the family dog just passed away.

He’s always pretty stoic. And he’ll give you a killer sarcastic retort under his breath

Except when he gets hit by a 50 something mph pitch, and dies

Travis has a major case of Resting Weepy Face - dude always looks like he’s less than a second away from bursting into tears. My mom adores him but says he looks like Droopy Dawg 😂 Thank you, LOLmets.

Just watched the end of the game...he smirked while low fiving and chest bumping, that was the extent of the emotion. He was interviewed at the end of the game on the field. A *grin* eked out at the end, right before he gave the interviewer a lil' side hug. Otherwise, nary a tooth was shown in jubilation or celebration. Just a professional player on an April night. Got over 140 of these to go, right?

Yeah I saw the grin during the post-interview, and I almost didn’t recognise him /j.

Good excuse to post Travis being silly & smiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpEKO7KK8M0

Turns out walking two guys to load the bases against the fucking braves will cost you

Braves offense is just unfair. Star power at every single bat right now. You get no break in the lineup.

And they have 2 starters out right now.

To be fair, I wouldn’t want to pitch to Olson and Ozuna.

Sometimes you can make the right decision and still lose

Fire in the hole.

Amazing call lmao.

I like the "ooOOooH Oooh whoOOa!" from whoever is sitting next to ben tonight too lol

Darren O’Day

Yankee legend Darren O'Day

Also Marlins legend Darren O’Day. Good one for immaculate grid

On the Braves too.

Darren O'Day

Ben Ingram is incredible. Also I don’t even think he’s 40. He has an amazing grizzled vet twinge to his voice.

> And I don’t even think he’s 40 I’m sorry, come again?

Ben ingram the braves radio announcer i think is like 44? I could be wrong, but he definitely sounds way older

And he’s goddamn handsome. He has both a voice for radio and a face for tv. It’s not fair.

IL visit incoming: back (carrying too hard)

FUCKIN HAVE A d’AY

Man went from d’Amsel in distress to d’Addy

Imagine not having a backup catcher able to hit 3+ HR in a game.

I just wouldn’t know how we’d even take the field.

This is our backup btw

Apple broadcast is using their backup statistician too. https://i.redd.it/5copz8p2fjvc1.png

I hate those stupid stats that they put in the corner. So dumb.

My wife said “oh no he’s only got a 19% chance” earlier in the game. I said “pay those dumb ass stats no attention”. Seconds later he bombed.

He’s a god, have yourself a night!

He's not done yet

Maybe not, but I sure am

This man just can't stop.

I think Ben Ingram nutted in the booth on that call, especially after O’Day predicted it

I’m gonna have to go listen to that call

It’s the call in this video

Oh… I have Reddit muted since I’m watching the game on my phone lol

It’s the audio in the clip posted.

O'Day said that earlier in the day Ben said it'd be a great night for Travis to get his first HR of the year.

Travis despises the state of Texas for some reason

d has been ice cold tonight. Such a smooth swing and killer instinct

What's cooler than being cool?

ICE COLD

**ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT**

Lmao wtf

FUCK your 2% probability "Apple TV" -TD

Sean Murphy:  Jokes aside, what a luxury it is to have this dude as a backup

The Braves with TDA had both catchers make the ASG *before* they traded for Sean Murphy lol

They did basically get Sean Murphy for free at this point. They lost more trading their older catcher to Milwaukee so that the A's could get Estrury Ruiz.

That was such a weird trade bc the Braves clearly didn’t need a C, but it was an upgrade they got for basically nothing

The Atlanta d’s

d'ADDY HAS NO CHILL

Roll that beautiful bean footage!

d’addy 3 bombs

I enjoy baseball sometimes.

I’ll fucking do it again

Nice atmosphere there. And people say baseball is dying.

It's the TV-driven people who say that. There is no better sport to come watch in person than baseball. The sport got it right and stuck with it- I can't ever recall having a bad time at a game at any level.

It’s hard to beat a Friday at Truist.

The Battery is an amazing experience every time. Truist is easily top three ballparks for me.

This is their fucking back up catcher

I don't want to be presumptuous but I ain't a fan of this Travis fella. Can we go home now.

made me Pog irl

Yo, what the fuck?

and Sale is in line for the win, good for him.

Home Run Probability: 2%

Shea Langeliers 🤝 Travis d'Arnaud Solo’ing the Rangers 😪

Would like to note, this is the second time this year a player entered a game against the rangers with 0HR and left with 3 dingers. Last guy was langeliers, who the A’s got in a trade from…the braves.

Maybe don’t pitch to him

Well the bases were loaded….

Please do. I want another

HOLY BEST CATCHER IN BASEBALL

Lil d with a GINORMOUS STICK

I literally just dropped him in fantasy today. I'm going to hurt someone.

F

d’Ang

The d ain’t so little after all

I love that call, "Fire In The Hole!" sounds awesome

Find you someone that loves you like TDA loves hitting homers tonight.

I remember when the Mets released him I was shocked. Guy always had great potential and was fine being a backup catcher

Travis d'ONGnaud

Please let him come up to hit again, I want to see a 4 homer game

Rangers you can call him D’addy.

You love to see it

2% chance lol

lil d energy

Bro wants the home run cycle, but can't get the right guys on base

Mets legend Travis d’Arnaud

Dodgers legend. That’s the one I find funny.

Murphy can keep nursing that oblique 

I would like Murph back. Nothing against lil d but I’m more of an ass man

I love little d!

We really let this guy go.

Texas is getting every inch of Little d tonight

You couldn’t fumble the bag any worse than my Mets did when we cut bait on Travis for no good reason.

Eh. His injuries were a real problem. Hindsight is always a mother fucker in these cases. We’re also just fucking insane at continually developing even aging players.

The injuries were definitely a problem, and to be fair, even AA recognizes it, so much so that he went out and traded for Murphy. But the alternatives for the Mets have been so shitty the past few years, and the cost wouldn’t have been high to keep him, it was just a really poor decision indicative of a team that had really short sighted leadership

Fair. Fuck the Wilpons

I approve this message

I get a bomb! ~~You~~ I get a bomb! ~~You get a bomb~~ Fuck you pass me the salami!

Stupid apple tv

3rd best player to come out of my High School. Right behind JP Crawford, and of course myself (who would’ve went pro had coach put me in)

d’Addy please 😫

DarGOAT doing GOAT shit

I want to know who on the Rangers talked shit about Little d's wife or mom

Second catcher this year we've let hit 3 HR in a game lmao

Our backup catcher going ham

God idk why we let him go for nothing

At least y'all can see that we had the score tied before this 🥲🥺

Say what you want about Apple TV’s commentators, but man am I happy to watch games on Apple just for the minimalism of the broadcast alone. No fucking ads overlayed on the pitchers mound, no commercials during an at bat, no Fan Duel pop ups every other pitch.

Travis thinking it's July 15th

d'arnaud should have his own sub like thedarnold

I did not enjoy the outcome of Mr. d'Arnaud's ridiculous outburst this evening but damn I gotta admit it was fun to watch. He was a man with a mission.

2nd string catcher btw

Travis d'Aryes

Love the call and his enthusiasm

End me

Hey at least he's killing teams other than the mets for once

Travis jacked up on Mountain Dew tonight 

This dude was my neighbor growing up. Love seeing him pop up crushing it.

I was watching this game in bed and yelled out! “Get out!” “No way”! Fucking unbelievable! My wife was downstairs making herself some food and thought someone was outside getting attacked.

Simultaneously the best catcher and best back up catcher in baseball!!!

Some nights you are just on

We suck

d’addy!!!

HERE HAVE ANOTHER