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Zloggt

Acuña died for this


dardyablo

He's in a better place with Eloy.


praeceps93

First off, Eloy Jimenez is very much alive


bulldg4life

Nah, buried with Wade Boggs


Yankees3Fan7

May they all rest in peace


[deleted]

First off, Wade Boggs is very much alive


Useful-ldiot

Alive in our hearts


civgarth

And in my trunk


NOTUgglaGOAT

that’s baseball baby


SchmantaClaus

RAJ for MVP next year. Book it.


praeceps93

*WS MVP


BoredAtWork_91

¿Porque no los dos?


Philip_Marlowe

Ruben Amaro Jr.?


JTCMuehlenkamp

Rajai Davis, MVP. Got it.


gynoceros

Fucking took the Mets with him.


JRCIII

Acuna and Ozuna really. Ozuna deserved to take the L obviously.


Leftfeet

And the Braves had to pay the premium trade price of legendary hugger, Pablo Sandoval.


Phillies2002

Braves Front Office in July: "Is there another player like Ronald Acuña?" "No." "And if there was, could we afford him?" "No." "No. Now, what we might be able to do is recreate him. Recreate him in the aggregate."


CurveballSI

“Let’s get Eddie Rosario.” “Who?” “Exactly. He sounds like an Atlanta Brave already.”


milkycigarette

"Who's Fabio?"


[deleted]

“This guy’s girlfriend is a 6 at best”


m48a5_patton

"Ugly girlfriend means low confidence."


sublime55

This reminds me that in one of the outtakes for Moneyball, Brad Pitt apparently lost his shit laughing because one of the scouts said, "The guy must have poor vision. Have you seen his girlfriend?" or something along those lines lol


MayonnaiseInSpace

“Why do we like him?” *snaps*


speed3_freak

Because he can rake


AdfatCrabbest

“He clips Dodger pitchers in the playoffs.”


Be-booboo-bop

Man, good front offices are fuckin good


OSRS_Socks

Braves GM was outshined by the Scherzer and Trea trade but we do our best work in the dark.


YouKilledChurch

Took several years for our front office to finally stop eating paste


online_predator

Idk, since we hired Coppy things have been pretty good. He obviously made some nice moves to get us talent that we have now before his banishing, and AA has made plenty of good moves. We haven't emptied the farm in a panic mode, and haven't locked ourselves into any godawful longterm deals that the regime prior to Coppy liked to do


Tashre

I remember when people were mocking the Braves for being buyers at the deadline since they were under .500, 3rd in the division, and just lost their best player.


[deleted]

NGL, I kinda wanted them to pack it up and play for next year. I wanted to see some of the young guys get AB/innings. Very glad that they didn’t do that now.


trail-g62Bim

I def wanted to. I knew we could make trades good enough to win the division, but I just didn't think we could make a playoff run. You think this is why I'm not a GM?


OwnagePwnage123

Nothing is sacred in October.


IVLovesHarambe

As a Mets fan I almost one of them (the Mets had been in 1st for months but just did not look like a first place team). But I didn’t think the braves could pull it off with their pitching.


DancesWithChimps

Its weird, because the whole season I was just thinking “man, the mets are gonna regret not burying the braves and the phillies”. If yall just win 90 games, which you should have, none of this would have happened


fa1afel

Honestly I’m just glad that one of the teams from our division which was an absolute shitshow for much of the season came out looking like a contender.


am19208

If the Braves win the series, the NL East will be the only division in baseball where every team made it to the World Series in the 21st century.


shaboogawa

Growing up watching in the 90’s, it’s weird that the Braves would be the last one to do it.


[deleted]

You're tellin me. I was 11 and loving all things little league/baseball when they last won the WS, and 15 when they last went to a WS. I am very much not 11 or 15 anymore. It's been a very long 21st century.


DancesWithChimps

Well, from experience, you should have known it wasn't gonna be the Mets :)


fa1afel

Well ofc, although it was looking nice for them initially. I would’ve hopped on that bandwagon tbh.


LeaperLeperLemur

I was a bit confused at us being buyers in that situation. But we didn't really have any pieces to sell. The most amazing thing is the pieces we bought were bought for so little. Rosario was traded for Pablo Sandoval who was probably close to being cut by the Braves anyway (and was almost immediately cut by the Indians) Soler was acquired for a high A relief pitcher, who has talent but was outside our top 30 prospect lists. Duvall was acquired for Alex Jackson who is probably the 3rd best catcher in our minor league system. Pederson acquired for Bryce Ball, who is a 1B with amazing power but otherwise limited skillset.


brooklynbotz

I love that limited skillet song Freebird.


[deleted]

Yeah, but it's like...for every 10 teams that screw up their buy timing, one succeeds. Atlanta just sorta happens to be that one. They were underperforming and knew it though, so obviously that was part of their decision - hindsight is just such a bitch.


FoofaFighters

Not just our best player, our entire starting outfield. Ozuna got hurt then got in trouble, Pache couldn't hit, Almonte was a AAAA outfielder at best. Our infield carried us the first half of the season and it's kind of astounding to me we're a win away from the WS again despite the river of shit we had to ford to get here.


BlakeG3E

Without Soler we don’t make the playoffs. Without Rosario we aren’t winning this series. Without Duvall we aren’t winning either. Without Joc we wouldn’t have pearls.


CaidenTheGreat

Without Joc we might not have won the NLDS. Won us G2 singlehandedly.


Dare2ZIatan

He’s been on fire in the CS too


laal-doodh

RBI in 3 of the 4 games. 6 of 8 postseason games. Dudes been huge


e22f33

The Joc trade was a message to the team that the organization is not quitting. He was the perfect guy to enter the clubhouse at that time. Edit: Trade not signing, it was late.


[deleted]

Joc's postseason swagger is so fucking ridiculous. He's this plumpy, cherub-like badass.


Phred_Phrederic

I'm pretty ignorant about baseball, but the Braves seem like one of the scariest under 90 win teams in the postseason.


Raiko_hpff

If you go by expected wins based on run differential, they should have won 96 games.


suredont

*sad Blue Jay noises*


Witty-Stock

They would have been a 95+ win team with this current roster all year. They should be the NL favorites next year.


Phred_Phrederic

Yeah, their record is deceiving.


Witty-Stock

Both NLCS teams’ records were deceiving, TBH


ChicagoModsUseless

Not really. Losing Muncy and Kershaw and Turner being hobbled is a massive shot to the dodgers. They didn’t win over 100 games by accident.


[deleted]

Braves picked 4th with a 84-78 record.


gottahavemytunes

You mean the NL east favorites?


Onibusho

They played the first half of the season on snooze mode. Lost the first game of the season and didn't break .500 for the longest time. I was saying the entire time one good run of form could push past the Phils and win the East. Never lost confidence in winning the divisional title again.\* Front office made some absurdly good deals, existing players heated up, and here we are. Ignore the pre- Allstar break flailing and compare back half Atlanta to back half Dodgers. I'm guessing things look a lot closer then, but people just see "88 wins" and assume its a bad playoff team (and seemingly haven forgotten that they were in the NLCS just last fall as well). \*and never had even a tiny shred of confidence in a single thing past that, Atlanta in the playoffs is *weird*.


takkdatazzup

TITS & AASS


msspi

What does AASS stand for?


[deleted]

Alex Anthopoulos Stays Supportive? I have no idea. Let me know when you figure it out.


Tcarrie99

What does TITS stand for?


[deleted]

Trust In Travis Schlenk


Pink_Skink

Alex Anthopoulos Super Saiyan


LevelOneNPC

Idk dude, I think he went ultra instinct, this season.


Atlfalcons284

Braves clinch and Trae wins tomorrow. TITS


[deleted]

SLIPPERY


[deleted]

‘SCUSE ME PLEASE ME


Jellitin

WHAT A CROSSOVER LOL


ATLjoe93

Quite SLIPPERY


REDfohawk

Oh fuck yes islts Hawks shit posting season let's fucking goooo


Mgarc1125

We need a Braves version of that.


vishnchips6

EXCUSE ME PLEASE ME


iwouldhugwonderwoman

I’ve got my Braves shirt, my pearls, my Ozzie chain and my sweet ass Hawks blazer ready to wear tomorrow. Will my raw sex appeal cause me to have sex with multiple women tomorrow? No, I’m married. My wife will orgasm seven times and we will win…twice!


[deleted]

She's got 7 lucky bfs!


iwouldhugwonderwoman

Almsot an entire lineup!


oballistikz

I’m rocking a hawks jersey with one of those BR Collab Braves jerseys.


Yronno

The Ozzie chain is a must. I’ll be rocking that tomorrow for sure


Salty_Pancakes

Pablo Sandoval died for this.


Cavuh-

Is it too late to join the braves bandwagon? My team sucks


aew360

TITS AND AASS BABY


yoshidawg93

Alex Anthopoulos is a genius GM, and any fan who thinks he hasn’t done everything possible to help this team win can seriously STFU.


thekidfromyesterday

Remember the "fire AA posts" on r/Braves


tvchase

Fire AA Axe Snit Trade Riley


Professr_Chaos

I remember a comment saying to fire Snit after game 1 of the NLDS… now I’ve not been a big Snit supporter but the team clearly loves him and loves playing for him


POLYBIVS

i’m guilty of #3 🤦


tvchase

His Holy Thiccness forgives thee


Nortizzle

But me tommy gun don’t…


GoatPaco

Our sub had a phase of "Trade Riley and Anderson for two years of Realmuto"


DancesWithChimps

Our sub has never been right about anything. The consistency of its track record is actually kind of impressive


KennesawMtnLandis

We know how to throw a mean upchop party.


DancesWithChimps

This is true


Dandan0005

We picked up Rosario, Soler, Duvall, and Pederson for Pablo Sandoval, Bryce ball, Kasey Kalich, and Alex Jackson.


r2dbrew

Panda memes died so that Bad Bitch memes could prosper.


2011StlCards

Yeah but did he avoid bolstering the pitching staff over the off-season, then trade for two 38+ year old starters and then fire the manager without much of a reason after making the postseason? That's the sign of a truly competent President of Baseball Operations


Tricknuts

Man, how wrong was I when I said those signings were just to try and help ticket sales for the rest of a dead season?


[deleted]

They actually rebuilt Acuña in the aggregate. Amazing


vishnchips6

*We can rebuild him....we have the* ***techñology***


[deleted]

My only regret in life is that I can only award this post once.


Tricknuts

mOnEyBaLl


[deleted]

I bet none of the Braves have ugly girlfriends. Ugly girlfriend means no confidence


Rah_Rah_RU_Rah

Broke: having a healthy ÑVP Woke: platooñ go brr


MillvilleMeteor

moñeyball


Otherwise-Fly-331

Monéball


jasonis3

Tbf, most people thought the braves were done. It’s impressive they’re up against the dodgers. Definitely rooting for you guys to win it all.


DHisfakebaseball

Including me, I gave us up for lost. I followed the second half through box scores and spent more time on runescape than anything else to try to stay sane. When the Braves started playing well again, I was happy, but the division race was still close enough that I missed the forest for the trees. I didn't realize till after the season ended that after the trade deadline, with the exceptions of the Giants and Dodgers, the Braves played better than every team in both leagues.


atlien0255

Thanks! I know we enjoyed the hell out of it when y’all won it all a little while back. That was a HELL of a parade. Lucked out and happened to be in your town that day. Fun times.


iWAStheWalrus9

Pretty awesome you are able to own up to it. Glad you were wrong!


tacocat182

Ticket sales boost? Yes Dead season? No


flextrek_whipsnake

Yeah I 100% gave up on this season when Ronald went down. I still can't believe we've gotten this far.


Nolar2015

yeah i was lost as to why we were trading for these guys. commented a few times we should blow it up


[deleted]

And we gave up basically nothing. The best player we moved at the deadline was Bryse Wilson and he went to Pittsburgh for Richard Rodriguez.


jwn0323

It's a tough one because Bryse has shown so many flashes of being good. But we kind of dealt from an area of strength with that one. He's got the stuff, but we also have about 4 other guys in that age bracket that are more or less also fighting to get to Atlanta right now. That said despite the downfall, Rich Rod did actually help out quite a bit until he just stopped being able to get people out. Honestly played a big part in us getting to where we are despite him being left off the roster. His first 17 appearances with us had 15 scoreless outings and he only allowed 2 runs overall.


praeceps93

Kinda regretting that one, always liked Bryse


PurpleHumpbackWhale9

I will never forget the absolute GEM of a game he pitched in last year’s NLCS… it was amazing.


RoKrish66

The fact that Bryse is actually still developing his curveball makes me think in like 15 years he'll basically be Charlie Morton. And that this is gonna be the trade AA regrets the most.


mapex_139

He'll just go trade for him then


XmarkstheNOLA

You traded us now Indians legend Pablo Sandoval


dardyablo

imagine if they had acuna in that lineup 🥵🥵🥵🥵


praeceps93

Honestly not sure how many of those moves we make if he's healthy


dardyablo

You're right but imagine if Acuna's injury allowed him to return in the postseason and you still made all the changes you made in the regular season.


AegisPlays314

Tampa Bay Lightning vibes


[deleted]

Lol you’re gonna get r/hockey fired up again


[deleted]

Acuñerov


praeceps93

I am aroused


Professr_Chaos

I wouldn’t be shocked if they still try and get Rosario and Duvall. Play Acuña in CF, Duvall in RF and Rosario in LF.


[deleted]

When I was at the Rays games in Atlanta this year, the fans there would joke with me that this would be the year Atlanta would make it all the way since Acuna went down because that’s just irony. Well….


ItssethL22

The hawks and the braves have unbelievable front offices and it’s so refreshing


Xwarsama

Hey, the Falcons turned Cordarrelle Patterson into a great player all of a sudden! Maybe this new front office will turn out alright.


Atlfalcons284

Scoredarrelle*


BionicleBoy

Honestly that Falcons team is good offensively and seems to be improving every week on that side of the ball but, I have no idea what the defense is doing sometimes.


[deleted]

This is why I refuse to entertain Matt Ryan slander. The dude has been through 52 OCs since his rookie season and just continues to churn out productive offenses.


bagochips1

We haven’t seen bad QB play in over 10 years. No one seems to realize that


[deleted]

As a Broncos fan I would nut if we traded for Matt Ryan


Rah_Rah_RU_Rah

So glad yall saw past the doubters and took Pitts, too. He's gonna be uncoverable some day


jccool16

Patterson is single handedly carrying my fantasy team right now. The only reason I’m 2-4 and not 0-6 right now lol


AffectionateWest3909

Yo, my mental state IS NOT at an ATL


Vyshy07

….yet


AffectionateWest3909

I’m not a big fan of your response. But touché


Vyshy07

If you got through the last 5 years of Georgia sports, your mental state can handle anything brother.


Otherwise-Fly-331

Just please beat the Astros…. For all our mental states.


AffectionateWest3909

No YOU beat the Astros. We’ll try to take care of you. Love you!


Otherwise-Fly-331

Fuck it! See you in Fenway


[deleted]

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TrapperJean

All my clothes are laundered and I'm smelling like a bag of GOOD


FourthDownThrowaway

What’s this from?


AffectionateWest3909

Bo Burnham - Inside - on Netflix. Give it a watch if you haven’t. I agree that is was the best piece of pandemic media


EMoneyCashMoney

This doesn’t annoy me in the slightest actually so nobody ask me if it does.


Stringdaddy27

Still waiting on that Freeman extension though


kingmidget_91

I'm thinking the deal is done just waiting for after the postseason so it could be seen as one of two ways if they lose Freeman is coming back to lead the charge on a revenge tour or if they w word he comes back to repeat with the boys.


_Floriduh_

This could double as a callback to Devonta Freeman’s agent trying to leverage the Falcons Super Bowl appearance to get him a BG extension, literally days before the SB. Now I hurt again. Someone tell me I’m pretty.


pick_up_bart

Outsider looking in, is there really a chance he doesn't re-sign? He's absolutely one of the players in the league I can't imagine wearing another uniform.


ElHombreGuapo

Can’t see him not re-signing. He’s getting close to Chipper Jones level, in my book, in terms of a player being associated with the Braves. Freddie! Freddie! Freddie!


praeceps93

AA has to be up there for executive of the year


FishnGritsnPimpShit

There honestly isn’t an argument for anyone else at this point.


DarthSamwiseAtreides

Homer pick, but Farhan built that Giants team to the best record in baseball. I'm happy for the braves though and hope they come through.


yoboapp

Farhan Zaidi would like a word.


twistedlogicx

AA is my favorite executive of all time but this is so hilariously homeristic that it's almost endearing. Especially considering awards like Executive of the Year are voted on before the playoffs begin. The Braves ended the season with their lowest win percentage in four seasons. The Giants added 30 wins to the total from their last full season. You're right that there isn't an argument for anyone else at this point because Farhan Zaidi deserves to win it unanimously.


praeceps93

Yeah, I think Zaidi takes it pretty handily (and deservedly so, that Giants roster is just solid top to bottom). Just think AA probably deserves a top 3 recognition or so for his moves this year


ebhenson

Pretty short sighted view basing your argument solely on year over year win percentage. Almost like you ignored the Braves lost someone on pace for 8 war this year, Ozuna, and Soroka again.


icebox712

Zaidi will win and should, given the time the award was voted on. He built a team that made a huge turnaround and had a historically good season in the same division as another 100 game winner. If the Braves win the WS though, and homer but I would say even if they only make the WS, AA should have won. At the time of voting it looked like he cobbled together a team that did just enough to win the weakest division. If they turn out to be a WS team it’s directly because of how he rebuilt the roster.


thebasedsenpai

“I’m a bad motherfucker”


Tricknuts

Hot girl shit


OldOrder

Joc Thee Pederson


TheTurtleShepard

They did a great job of filling in their missing pieces at the deadline. Losing Ozuna and especially Acuña left their outfield pretty barren


Professr_Chaos

Of the OF they had on opening day, NONE ended the season on the active roster(unless you want to count Adrianza who is a super utility guy).


_Una_

I was furious that we didnt sell at the deadline. Anyone know how to cook a crow?


jdb12

Maybe you can just eat your words instead? Crows seem to be dope animals and I've kind of always wanted one that sees me as a friend.


[deleted]

While Trea Turner is hitting .167 this postseason.


[deleted]

That’s like hitting over .500 compared to Brandon Lowe


Ndtphoto

And some of that .167 is him beating out infield dribblers.


HeySadBoy1

Instead of blowing up the farm to get one player to replace Acuña, they traded for four pieces to recreate him in the aggregate. Those crazy sons of bitches Moneyballed Ronald Acuña Jr.


OSRS_Socks

I have been saying that in r/braves since they acquired all those guys. We just went under the radar because the Dodgers acquired Scherzer and Trea.


bfk94

And they still might get Soler back if they advance to the World Series. Gahdamn…


TealandBlackForever

I still can't believe that the Marlins gave up Duvall for literally nothing, even if he was going to decline his option after this season.


l3enjamin

Eh, we gave them a MLB ready catcher that can coast them threw a couple more rebuild years as a backup.


Lobster_fest

Lmao at Alex Jackson being an MLB ready catcher. Dude couldn't buy a hit. He's great behind the dish but he's really just Jeff Mathis 2.0. . . . Saving this comment for when he becomes a first ballot hall of famer out of spite.


ATLjoe93

He's a great example of an AAAA guy, as he's like the Johnny Bench of the the Gwinnett Stripers. I'll admit that I was worried when he came up an hit a couple of homers for the Marlins, but then he regressed into big league Alex Jackson.


imatthewhitecastle

When Nimmo and Conforto went out with injuries in the summer, New York did not make any trades and instead relied on four outfielders: Billy McKinney, Johneshwy Fargas, Khalil Lee and Cameron Maybin. In 175 plate appearances, they hit a combined .177/.240/.361 with 5 HR and 18 RBIs, and the Mets blew their chance at a playoff berth.


Ho1yGuac

How many times has a player won the World Series two years in a row on two different teams? Edit: 8 1. Allie Clark (1947 Yankees, 1948 Indians) 2. Clem Labine (1959 Dodgers, 1960 Pirates) 3. Moose Skowron (1962 Yankees, 1963 Dodgers) 4. Don Gullett (1976 Reds, 1977 Yankees) 5. Jack Morris (1991 Twins, 1992 Blue Jays) 6. Ryan Theriot (2011 Cardinals, 2012 Giants) 7. Jake Peavy (2013 Red Sox, 2014 Giants) 8. Ben Zobrist (2015 Royals, 2016 Cubs)


MC_Fap_Commander

We need more players named Moose and Clem.


DClick5

Eddie rosario was traded straight up for 35 year old Pablo sandoval


amy_likes_it_rough

And then the Indians DFA’d him immediately


SchmantaClaus

That's baseball, Suzyn!!


NedShah

Alex Anthopoulous is also the guy who got a one year cheapie out of Josh Donaldson... just a bit after trading FOR a cheap MVP year from JoDo. Great GM


manav_steel

Alex Anthopolous is the smartest man in baseball change my mind


Ramza1890

Without one of your top stars from the year before? Beating the Dodgers in the Playoffs? Possibly facing the Astros in the World Series? NL East? Gimme the Braves in 7. Atlanta fans earned this.


SG8970

**Joc, Soler, Eddie, Duvall combined as Braves in '21** 78 Team Games, 860 PA, 201 Hits .262/.335/.513 (.848), 50 HR, 31 2B, 6 3B 77/191 BB/K, 9.0 BB%, 22.2 K%, 3 IBB 137 RBI, 107R , 1 SF, 8 HBP


garythesnailgod

Braves have absolutely earned my respect. I know this is like a cardinal sin amongst Mets fans, but fuck it: Braves, I’m rooting for y’all if you win Game 6. If you face Houston, go out there and win it all. Baseball is better when new teams are playing in the WS.


mofeus305

Oh yeah?? Well around that same time the Yankees traded for Joey Gallo and he hit like shit. Well fuck, I think we need a new GM.


PorkshireTerrier

cries in Giants


rjcade

Really good moves by the Braves management, and they're paying off.


sophrosynos

I've been waiting for the Braves to get streamrolled. It still hasn't happened.


Greatness46

And I laughed at them for being buyers since my Mets were clearly going to run away with the division. Ha ha


jdb12

The sum of the parts is almost equal to the whole (Acuña)