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Nate Pearson is awful 10.38 ERA / 7.86 FIP / 7.99 xFIP 8.2 IP, 7 BB, 5 K, 1 HBP, 2 HR What an absolute bust.

The Braves were literally one of the worst teams in the league heading into this game.

Looking forward to the nostalgia inducing post from Mac 7 years from now.

My god, they just keep throwing Easton Lucas to the wolves. Absurd lineup for a guy who should be needing the offensive support. I suppose the defense is maximized for the most part with Clement, Straw and Lukes all in there.

For sure, my post was essentially indicating that in spite of his power outage to begin the season, he's generally been hitting well and looks like a bit of a copy of his 2024 start. If Vlad is treading water in April with a ~120-130 wRC+ where his expected xWOBA sees him as more of a 150+ wRC+ guy, then we can live with that as long as the power output eventually emerges as the weather warms up.

Silver linings for Vlad: Despite the power outage, he's still putting up a passable 118 wRC+, with a pretty decent .366 OBP which is mostly carried by a high batting average (which xBA actually thinks undersells him). His xSLG is .478, which is over 100 points higher than his actual The major change here has been that he's not really putting the ball in the air all that much, except for a brutal IFFB rate of his few flyballs He's making up for it with a big jump in line drive rate, and he's not actually hitting ground balls at a higher rate than normal. So the getting on base ability hasn't been fluky thus far, he just hasn't been a HR threat at all, barrel rate is down and this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone His oppo % is huge, kind of in a gross way. He's going to the opposite field more often than he's pulling the ball. This could be fine, because he has the raw power to cause damage to the opposite field, but the eye test tells me most of those oppo batted balls are well placed line drives for singles. He either needs to start pulling the ball more, or start launching bombs to the opposite field Given that we've now paid him and he's not going away any time soon, might as well start sniffing the copium, look under the hood and hope that he is that hitting powerhouse capable of carrying our offense. This start for him was essentially the recipe for 2024 Vlad, lots of singles and a decent OBP, xWOBA looking like a real threat waiting to break out with some regression.

Jeff Hoffman is a stud. Best reliever we’ve had in a while.

f*** off Vlad. Such an excellent play by Bo wasted on an inexcusable mistake.

What a tease with two balls hit well right to the warning track. Could’ve blown this game wide open.

This might be a new low for Vlad on the basepaths lmao

Francis is cruising.

Tyler Heineman might be the best catcher in baseball.

He’s like a more expensive Ernie Clement with good exit velos that amount to nothing.

“Abreu’s got a very good arm” as the camera pans to a 15 hopper 20 feet off the line

Good stuff from Yimi, tough luck for him and Little for this to be going to extras.

Disgusting stuff from Chapman to Gimenez. Nothing you can do there. When he starts throwing the filthy secondaries nobody can stand a chance.

Heineman swiping a bag and everything lol.

He’s not a good defender and certainly doesn’t have the reps at third.

Gimenez is magical, but yet another strong throw from Heineman.

Straw and Heineman getting it done lol

This is the battle of grunting starters who swear any time they miss their spot.

The homeplate ump has been dogshit. Seems like that Gimenez K bounced in the dirt.

I've seen Lukes turn his back on any pitch near him, that's a guy that's willing to take one for the team.

Two broken bat singles from the Red Sox thus far.

Yeah at this point I've given up hope in wanting a homerun, at least until it warms up. Let's get some good sequencing going boys.