What moments defined your team this season

For the Braves, nothing they did made any sense, so the best example I can think of is a late July/early August(can't remember which) double header in Washington against the Nats. At this time the Nats were in their post ASB hot streak and were sneaking back into the division race.

The day version of the double header we were facing some AAAA pitcher for that Nats with the last name of Rodriguez that the rest of the league had hammered. We lost 8-3.

The night cap we were facing Max Scherzer, naturally I'm thinking we're about to lose a double header and really let the Nats back into this thing. But Sean Newcomb matched Scherzer pitch for pitch, and our bullpen held and theirs didn't and we won 3-1.

Acuna getting the lead off HR streak broken on a HBP.

That is when the Braves said, 'F*ck You' to everyone in the league.

Terminus said:

Acuna getting the lead off HR streak broken on a HBP.

That is when the Braves said, 'F*ck You' to everyone in the league.

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That pissed the team off for sure. Glad that we were smart enough to not do anything stupid against a team with nothing to lose when we had everything to lose.

But going back to the double header in Washington.

Charlie Culberson his a solo shot in the 9th inning of the day game to make it an 8-3 game, and I was thinking that was the first meaningless homer he'd hit all season. Seemed like all the rest either won the game, gave us the lead or brought us back into the game. Then in the night cap, he hit a solo shot off of Max Scherzer to tie the game at one after Scherzer had gotten out of a bases loaded 0 out spot when every Braves fan just knew we had lost the game.

2 moments, same day. Signing Lorenzo Cain and trading for Christian Yelich Jan. 26


Time to play with the big boys. All about expectations.

Getting Swept by the Red Sox and then going out west and having a 6-1 road trip.

Calling up Willans Austudillo

What a treat he is.

Wish every player was like him.

Fat, athletic enough to play every position with varying degree of success or lack of. Immune to walks. Insane contact this era hasn’t seen. Occasional power. Hilarious to watch run.

Just a real glory to watch.

The 4-game sweep of the Yankees. This team dominated all year and this series firmly established their hold on the division. September was their worst month and they still finished .577, and that was with them resting players. The Sox were up 5.5 coming into the series, but even just splitting the series would have left me satisfied. The first two pitching matchups weren't very favorable (Johnson-Sabathia and Porcello-Severino), but the Sox chased Sabathia out and bludgeoned that bullpen and then they got to Severino while Porcello pitched one of the best games of his career (86 pitch complete game, gave up a solo home run but retired the other 27 guys he faced). The Sox then got 8 shutout innings from Eovaldi and then Chapman completely imploded on Sunday Night Baseball. The Sox left the series with a 9.5 game lead and the Yankees never really threatened after. The Sunday Night game was great, but it was just one of a bunch of comebacks from this team.

Game 162 was a pretty good summary.

Cubs went 7 of 9 games in a row late in the season where they scored one or zero runs.

Guess what happened today.

The Brewer GM David Stearns is a genius! The Brewers were fortunate to get him after he built the Houston roster.
The guys is so young at age 34.

David Stearns - Wikipedia

After graduating from Harvard, Stearns worked for the baseball operations departments for the New York Mets and the Arizona Fall League.[4] He joined the MLB Central Office in 2008, where he worked on the negotiating team for MLB's collective bargaining agreement.[3][5] He spent his last 13 months in the central office as manager of labor relations, where he aided teams going through the process of salary arbitration. In December 2011, the Cleveland Indians hired Stearns and Derek Falvey as their co-directors of baseball operations, with Stearns focusing on player contracts, data analysis, and strategy, and Falvey working on player acquisitions.[6] In November 2012, the Houston Astros, who had lost over 100 games in both of the past two seasons, hired Stearns as assistant general manager, second only to Jeff Luhnow, the general manager.[4] While many organizations have multiple assistant general managers, the Astros employed only Stearns in the role.[7]

When talking about August 2015, Luhnow said of his staff: “There’s several people in our organization that have GM potential, and David’s one of them."[8] At that time, the Milwaukee Brewers began searching for a new general manager, prioritizing youth and experience with data analytics, which the Astros used in their rebuild.[8] On September 21, 2015, the Milwaukee Brewers named Stearns their next general manager, succeeding Doug Melvin, who they announced would remain with the team in an advisory role.[9] At thirty years of age, he became the youngest general manager in MLB, and is one year younger than the Brewers' Ryan Braun.[10][a] At his introductory press conference, Stearns endorsed Craig Counsell as the Brewers' manager.[11]

Stearns fired five of the Brewers' seven coaches,[12] and began to restructure the front office by reassigning Gord Ash, the assistant general manager, and Reid Nichols, the farm director within the organization,[13] and hiring Matt Arnold from the Tampa Bay Rays as assistant general manager.[14] During his first offseason as general manager, Stearns replaced half of the members of the Brewers' 40-man roster.[15]



Before the season Cain and Yelich

Trades for players during the season before the trade deadline and after the trade deadline:

Joakim Soria from White Sox - Relief pitcher
Mike Moustakis from Royals - 3rd base
Jonathan Schoop from Baltimore - 2cnd base
Gio Gonzalez from Washington - starting pitcher
Curtis Granderson from Toronto - outfield
Xavier Cedeño from White sox - pitcher

ElTexan said:

Cubs went 7 of 9 games in a row late in the season where they scored one or zero runs.

Guess what happened today.

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Oh and in the eighth game of nine, we didn’t score until after the 26th out. #EveryBoteIn

1. Miggy Cabrera getting to spend half the season at the beach.

2. dougplayer getting banned from SportsHoopla.

the yankees have over come many injuries this year. lets see how they fair in the postseason

Judges return

The trickle effect on and apparently off the field

The lineup has been raking, the energy seems completely different than a month ago

DirtDirtDirt said:

Judges return

The trickle effect on and apparently off the field

The lineup has been raking, the energy seems completely different than a month ago

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Disagree lmaoo

bksballer89 said:

Disagree lmaoo

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The Cardinals picked up Greg Holland only to have him struggle with a 7.92 ERA and Cardinals fans getting mad at Matheny for putting him in so much. Holland then leaves, joins the Nats and posts a .084 ERA with them to finish the season including a Win he posted against the Cardinals.