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So the Braves\u2019 best pitcher, Spencer Strider is probably toast for the year, and some of next year; UCL damage is usually the precursor to Tommy John surgery, and even if there\u2019s no actual tear that all but necessitates it, it\u2019s almost worse to be on the lookout, because in so many cases, they burn time trying to rest and rehab it, and then when they try and pitch with it months later and then get the tear, prompting the TJS, they\u2019ve burned an extra few months in which the surgery and rehab process might already have begun.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, the Braves\u2019 second-best pitcher, Max Fried has started the season acting like he\u2019s not in his contract year, with his piddly five innings pitched in two starts, allowing 11 runs and with an ERA of 18.00.\u00a0 Surely it will have to get better as the season wears on, but his start isn\u2019t inspiring confidence at the moment, and if not for the two \u201cold guys\u201d in Charlie Morton and Chris Sale, as well as their potent offense, the Braves most definitely wouldn\u2019t be over .500 at this early juncture in the season.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, I\u2019m writing this a day removed from the Braves having gotten absolutely nuked by the Mets, 16-4.\u00a0 In the absence of Spencer Strider, the Braves have already dipped into the minor leagues, calling up Allan Winans to start, and he did not perform very well, allowing six of the Mets\u2019 aforementioned 16 runs, and was promptly sent back down to the minor leagues afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n And that\u2019s just what the Braves do, and will continue to do throughout the season; rely on young, mostly untested talent, like Allan Winans and AJ Smith-Shawver or guys who benefited greatly from the Braves\u2019 offensive output to mask their general mediocrity like Bryce Elder, none of whom I will feel at all at ease when watching at this state of their respective careers.<\/span><\/p>\n All, while Trevor Bauer still is hanging out somewhere in Arizona striking out Eric Sim 58 times a day for YouTube content, or jet-setting down to Mexico to pitch for the Locos Diablos Rojos Tacos or whatever the fuck they\u2019re called, because MLB is colluding to blacklist him from the league because of alleged crimes that multiple active players in the game right now have had an actual history with themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, this is a hill that I\u2019m willing to die on, because I firmly believe that there is no team in league that Trevor Bauer doesn\u2019t make better immediately, and as much as it guaranteed will not happen, I really fucking wish it could be the Braves, who very obviously actually need him, yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n Bauer\u2019s arsenal actually comps very closely to Spencer Strider\u2019s, starting with a big fastball that can hit the upper-90\u2019s, a reliable slider, but also a curveball as well as a cutter.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful that as soon as Strider went down, quite literally pick up a wandering free agent who has almost the exact same arsenal and have him start in his place?\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s what I think too, but Braves gonna Barves, and stay behind the picket lines with their MLB brethren, thinking they\u2019re too high and mighty for Trevor Bauer.<\/span><\/p>\n I see arguments on almost a daily basis about Bauer, and I understand there are a lot of fans who are concerned about the rumored other allegations that Bauer has yet to beat, and that they will rear their heads throughout the season, but to those concerns, I say so what?<\/span><\/p>\n Bauer has stated that aside from being willing to play for the league minimum, he would accept being cut without argument.\u00a0 Let him join your roster, win 5-6 games, and if a court date or legal matter emerges in June, then cut him.\u00a0 Then, dip into the minor leagues or B-squad and cross the bridge when you get there, but let Trevor Bauer be the bridge to get you to that point and let him win baseball games for you.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t understand why this is such a difficult concept for MLB squads to accept, but collusion is collusion because everyone is on board with the idea of blacklisting a currently innocent man, no matter the value and talent he\u2019s capable of providing.\u00a0 I like to imagine that behind the picket lines, there are numerous general managers sweating over wanting to pick up Trevor Bauer for their squads, but out of fear of breaking solidarity with the collusion, their hands are tied.<\/span><\/p>\n I retract what I said about how I believe someone will definitively pick him up, because it really is looking like Colin Kaepernick out there in baseball land, and no matter how clearly needed guys like Kaepernick and Bauer would be needed by many professional sporting clubs, the collusion is for real, and teams would rather suffer and take losses than risk crossing the pickets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So the Braves\u2019 best pitcher, Spencer Strider is probably toast for the year, and some of next year; UCL damage is usually the precursor to Tommy John surgery, and even if there\u2019s no actual tear that all but necessitates it, it\u2019s almost worse to be on the lookout, because in so many cases, they burn … Continue reading Sure would be nice if the Braves had Trevor Bauer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[196,62,66,79,100,112,45,90,83,52,58],"class_list":["post-49885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-barves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49887,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49885\/revisions\/49887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}