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THIS IS A WIN

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WALK OFF WIN (Austin Riley Edition) CLE vs. ATL April 28, 2024

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The BRAVES!!!! off-season review

They have a very talented rotation right now. I still like Waldrep, and Smith-schawver... but the main THING that has me excited? Ian Anderson is a legit #2, how his stuff plays when healthy. No one is talking about him, but when his change-up is back.... Brian Snitker is laughing! On a side note, it's weird Snitker is in his last year with no extension still. On any other team, Brian Snitker would make at least Alex Cora money. He should go to free-agency, he wouldn't last a season without a job.

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Craig Counsell Always Wanted to End Up With the Cubs

[original article]

As Craig Counsell headed into manager free agency this month, two objectives stood at the top of his wish list: kickstart what had been a fallow financial market for managers and coaches and to honor his Midwestern roots. Only the Cubs could satisfy those two objectives. That is why he is the Chicago manager today.

The results of managerial manic Monday—Counsell to the Cubs, David Ross out of a job in Chicago, Carlos Mendoza to the Mets and Stephen Vogt to the Guardians—seemed shocking in the staccato burst of news. Counsell to the Cubs seemed like the biggest shock of all. But based on Counsell’s roots and desire to get to free agency in the first place, the result makes perfect sense.

The Cubs knew this, which is why they placed a call to him on the first day he was a free agent.

Chicago was very much aware that Counsell grew up and lives in Wisconsin, played at Notre Dame, has sons playing college baseball at Minnesota and Michigan and has two daughters in high school in Wisconsin. “The Midwest [pull] is real,” says one source familiar with negotiations between Counsell and the Cubs.

As the Cubs did their homework, knowing Counsell chose to play this year out rather than sign an extension with Milwaukee, they were told by one of Counsell’s friends, “If he ever managed anywhere else, the Cubs have always been his dream job.”

Counsell became a free agent on Nov. 1, the day after his Milwaukee contract expired. The Cubs called Nov. 1, such was their interest in acquiring what one team source called “one of the one or two best managers in the game.”

By then, the Mets already had contacted Counsell. They jump-started the process when David Stearns, the Mets’ newly hired president of baseball operation, called his old club, Milwaukee, for permission to talk to Counsell before his contract expired. With the money of New York owner Steve Cohen and with the shared history of Stearns and Counsell—seven years together as GM and manager in Milwaukee—the Mets were portrayed as the most likely team to sign Counsell.

There were two problems with that assumption. Stearns did not hire Counsell in Milwaukee. He inherited him when he was named GM in September 2015. They worked well together but were not particularly close, especially as Milwaukee emphasized analytics more in game decisions. Moreover, the Mets’ advantage of money was offset by geography and where the team stands on the winning curve. It is not a plum job despite plum money.

“Over the last few days people were still writing that it looked like it was Counsell’s job,” says a source who spoke to Counsell during that time. “That wasn’t the case. He was all but out over the past few days. New York was not at the top of his list.”

Says one executive, “If you look at recent history, managers don’t come out well on the other side of that job.”

Mendoza will be the sixth named manager of the Mets in the past eight seasons, following Terry Collins, Mickey Callaway, Carlos Beltran, Luis Rojas and Buck Showalter. Going back to Jerry Manuel and Art Howe, the past seven Mets managers have not landed another managing gig after leaving Queens.

Stearns needed a manager with experience and/or a working understanding of the New York landscape. He settled on Mendoza, the former Yankees bench coach who turns 44 this month and has not managed above Class A ball. It comes at a time when the race to identify the next inexperienced managerial whiz has lost its luster as experience returns results. The ages of the past six World Series managers: 58 (Torey Lovullo), 59 (Rob Thomson), 65 (Brian Snitker), 68 (Bruce Bochy), 72 (Dusty Baker) and 73 (Baker).

The Mets were 29 games worse than Atlanta last year, the furthest they have been from first place in 20 years. The job comes with uncertainty in terms of how quickly they can rebuild. Likewise, Counsell’s free agency came just as Milwaukee is staring at a rebuild. Pitcher Brandon Woodruff underwent shoulder surgery and could be out for all of next year. Pitcher Corbin Burnes and shortstop Willy Adames could be traded this winter in advance of pending free agency.

The Cubs, however, are on the upswing, just as they were (if not quite as sharply) when the team dumped incumbent manager Rick Renteria in favor of free agent manager Joe Maddon after the 2014 season. Similarly, the Cubs liked Ross but decided when one of the game’s best managers is available and that person has strong ties to the Midwest, they felt obligated to pursue the top talent.

Chicago gave Counsell $40 million over five years. The annual salary of $8 million is a record, topping the $7.5 million Joe Torre earned from the Yankees more than 20 years ago ($13.3 million in today’s dollars). As analytics grew in baseball, executives became stars, not managers. Executives not only came to earn more than managers but they also reduced the influence of managers by relying on information-backed systems rather than wisdom.

For instance, when the Cubs hired Maddon, they paid him $5 million per year. President of baseball operations Theo Epstein was making $3.7 million. By the time Epstein left he was making $10 million, and the manager/GM balance of power in MLB had flipped.

The financial market for managers cratered in the analytics age. Terry Francona, with two World Series titles, reportedly was the game’s highest paid manager last season at $4.5 million. Maddon’s contract eight years ago (before he won a title) equates to $6.8 million in today’s dollars. Likewise, contracts for major league coaches remain stagnant at a time when the minimum player salary has risen 42% in the past eight years to $720,000.

“That’s one reason why you see so many coaches today who never played in the big leagues,” says one AL coach. “It’s almost like asking, ‘Who wants to coach for $120,000?’ There are a lot of guys who never played who would volunteer in a heartbeat. But if you’re in a big market, with taxes and living expenses, you’re almost working for free.”

The investment in Counsell is a signal that the Cubs are all in next season. You don’t hand out the most lucrative contract for a manager without consolidating that investment on the player side.

Conversely, the Brewers offered Counsell a raise from $3.5 million to $5.5 million but were never going to get to the level of Cubs money. Just days ago, they traded veteran outfielder Mark Canha to Detroit for a minor league reliever, rather than bring him back for $11.5 million or pay a $2 million buyout.

“What I don’t get is why the Brewers just didn’t pay to keep him,” says a source close to Counsell.

Based on how the teams are positioned and market resources, Counsell was worth more to the Cubs than to the Brewers. Milwaukee is scheduled to meet Tuesday morning with Pat Murphy, Counsell’s bench coach and former coach at Notre Dame, about replacing Counsell. Murphy also is expected to be offered a job on Counsell’s staff in Chicago.

Milwaukee could stay in house as it develops young players from its productive farm system, or it could try to take the public relations sting out of losing the franchise’s best manager—to the rival Cubs, no less—by hiring a “name brand” manager. Among those likely choices, according to a source, are Ross and Don Mattingly.

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Couldn't agree more! 😒

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Hace unos días, publicamos un video donde Ronald Acuña Jr. conectó un batazo largo pero no pasó de la primera base por quedarse admirando la pelota. Como resultado de esta acción displicente fue sacado del partido. Hoy, veremos un caso similar, pero esta vez con su compañero de equipo, Marcell Ozuna. Ozuna conecta un batazo profundo al jardín central y, al igual que Acuña Jr., se enamora de su propio batazo y se queda parado mirando la pelota lo que lo hace perder y termina quedándose en la primera base. El mánager Brian Snitker, quien ya había tomado medidas contra Acuña Jr, no duda en hacer lo mismo y manda a Ozuna directo a la banca por el resto del partido. Y eso se llama respeto por juego! Si quieres pegarle a la pelota y quedarte admirando la su trayectoria, ¡cambia de deporte y vete a jugar golf! Puedes ser LA SUPER ESTRELLA y si no juegas duro este manager te saca del juego published first on https://www.youtube.com/@mario-rojas/

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Atlanta Braves Brian Snitker Snitbear T Shirt

Link: https://tshirtatlowprice.com/products/atlanta-braves-brian-snitker-snitbear-t-shirt/?feed_id=7471 Overall, Atlanta Braves Brian Snitker Snitbear T Shirt celebrates Brian Snitker's association with the Atlanta Braves and expresses support for the team and its manager.

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Ha conectado al menos 9 hits en sus primeros 10 juegos. El zuliano sobresale entre novatos de la Nacional. Luis Guillome tuvo un particular estre con Atlanta esta temporada. El manager Brian Snitker apostó por Luis Guillorme en el cierre del compromiso contra los Mets de Nueva York. Salvador Pérez y sus Reales aplastan la MLB Mientras el novato Jackson Holliday acaparó los titulares el miércoles por haber ascendido con los Orioles, con credenciales el prospecto número 1 de las Grandes Ligas, el venezolano Jackson Chourio, talentoso jardinero de los Cerveceros sigue sumando puntos a su candidatura como aspirante al galardómn de Novato del Año de la Liga Nacional en 2024. Chourio ligó de 3-1 con par de carreras remolcadas en el partido que los lupulosos le ganaron 7-2 a los Rojos en Cincinnati. Llegó a nueve impulsadas en diez partidos y colocó su average en .282. Amplió la ventaja inicial de Milwaukee con un sencillo productor ante el as de los Rojos, Hunter Greene, en la segunda entrada. Consiguió una carrera impulsada adicional con un elevado de sacrificio en la cuarta entrada y también agregó su segunda base robada. El promisor jardinero derecho de 20 años de edad ha cone ctado al menos un indicutible en nueve de los diez encuentros en los que ha intervenido. Es el primer pelotero de la franquica lupulosa que tiene 58 años de operaciones en alcanzar tal logro. Previamente siete jugadores dieron al menos un indicutible en ocho de sus primeros diez juegos, el último en lograrlo fue Lorenzo Cain en 2010. Entre los novatos de la Liga Nacional hasta la jornada de ayer, Chourio figuraba primero en los departamentos de jonrones (2) y remolcadas (9), segundo en imparables (11) y dobles (1), tercero en robos (2) y anotadas (5), cuarto en turnos al bate (39) y séptimo en promedio. Salvador Pérez empeñado en clasificar a Reales [caption id="attachment_108522" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Salvador Pérez. Foto Cortesía[/caption] El inicio de temporada 2024 de las Grandes Ligas ha estado colmado de sorpresas. Una de esas ha sido el sobresaliente estado de forma que han mostrado los Reales de Kansas City, equipo que inició la fase regular con récord negativo de 2-4, pero que ha sabido recuperarse para estar a 0.5 partidos de diferencia de los primeros en de la División Central de la Liga Americana. En la tarde de este jueves, los dirigidos por Matt Quatraro derrotaron a los Astros de Houston 13-3 para barrer la serie de tres juegos contra ellos que se disputó en el Kauffman Stadium. Con ese marcador favorable, recopilaron su novena victoria de la campaña y su segunda barrida de manera consecutiva, luego de que hayan ganado los cuatro choques anteriores frente a los Medias Blancas de Chicago, también en el Kauffman Stadium. En lo que va de zafra, los Reales son la organización con el diferencial de carreras más alto de todo el beisbol con +39. Le+s siguen los Guardianes de Cleveland con +35.  La escuadra capitaneada por Salvador Pérez tiene un objetivo en mente este año y no es otro que clasificar a la postemporada. El año pasado tuvieron el segundo peor balance de victorias de toda la liga con 56-106, sin embargo, en la última pretemporada varias figuras dijeron sentirse confiados en que este año podían mostrar un mejor papel. Luis Guillorme se estrenó como lanzador [caption id="attachment_108521" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Luis Guillorme | Foto cortesía[/caption] La jornada de este jueves sirvió para que Bravos de Atlanta y Mets de Nueva York cerraran su primera serie del 2024 en el Truist Park. Allí, el conjunto dirigido por el manager Carlos Mendoza se impuso con un abultado marcador de 16 a 4, en el que también fue el estreno de Luis Guillorme en esta temporada. El caraqueño fue firmado por el conjunto de Atlanta como agente libre a principios del año, y durante el Spring Training se ganó un puesto en el roster como utility. Justamente, gracias a esa versatilidad fue que el estratega Brian Snitker apostó por él en un compromiso que ya estaba liquidado.

Con la pizarra señalando un 12 a 4, Guillorme salió al noveno episodio como lanzador y no como jugador de posición. Allí permitió un sencillo de Francisco Álvarez, regaló un boleto a Jeff McNeil, dominó con elevado a DJ Stewart, y toleró un indiscutible de Harrison Bader. Con las bases llenas, Tyrone Taylor le conectó un grand slam por el jardín izquierdo. Acto seguido, tanto Starling Marte como Francisco Lindor fueron dominados con rodados para ponerle punto final al noveno de los Mets. El venezolano solo estuvo esa entrada sobre el montículo. ¿Es la primera vez que Luis Guillorme actúa como lanzador? A lo largo de su carrera en las Grandes Ligas, Luis Guillorme ha demostrado ser un bateador oportuno y un gran pelotero defensivo. En sus temporadas anteriores con los Mets de Nueva York se encargó en múltiples ocasiones del campocorto, la segunda y tercera base. Sin embargo, vale mencionar que con el elenco neoyorquino también fungió como lanzador. En las temporadas 2020 y 2023, contra Nacionales de Washington y Cerveceros de Milwaukee respectivamente, sacó un inning en blanco con apenas un hit permitido. Por su parte, en la 2021 los Cachorros de Chicago lo castigaron con tres indiscutibles y dos anotaciones en un capítulo. Para recibir en tu celular esta y otras informaciones, únete a nuestras redes sociales, síguenos en Instagram, Twitter y Facebook como @DiarioElPepazo El Pepazo/Líder/Meridiano

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2024 Atlanta Braves Famous Relations

#50 Charlie Morton IV: Grandson of former Philadelphia Athletics player Charlie Morton; Jr.. #77 Joe Jiménez: Brother of former Pennsylvania Road Warriors C A.J. Jiménez. #16 Travis d'Arnaud: Brother of former Omaha Storm Chasers SS Chase d'Arnaud. #11 Orlando Arcia: Brother of Charros De Jalisco RF Oswaldo Arcia. #13 Ronald Acuña; Jr.: Grandson of former Reno Silver Sox P Romualdo Acuña, son of former Cabimes De Anzoátegui RF Ronald Acuña, nephew of former Utica Blue Jays SS José Escobar, brother of Syracuse Mets SS Luisangel Acuña & cousin of Charros De Jalisco P José Campos, Tigres De Quintana Roo SS Alcides Escobar, Iowa Cubs P Edwin Escobar and former Olmecas De Tabasco P Kelvim Escobar. #20 Marcell Ozuna: Cousin of former Newark Bears 2B Pablo Ozuna. Manager Brian Snitker: Father of Houston Astros hitting coach Troy Snitker. Assistant hitting coach Bobby Magallanes: Brother of former Birmingham Barons manager Ever Magallanes. Assistant coach Eddie Pérez: Father of Hotsands Macerata P Andres Pérez. 3B coach Matt Tuiasosopo: Son of former San Francisco 49ers DT Manu Tuiasosopo, 2nd cousin of actor Peter Tuiasosopo and Kansas State University Wildcats football defensive coach Mike Tuiasosopo, brother of Rice University Owls football offensive coordinator Marques Tuiasosopo and University Of Washington Huskies women's volleyball head coach Leslie Gabriel & brother-in-Law of Billings Mustangs bench coach Micah Owings.

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You don’t need to worry about Philly fans being hostile. Than means all is right in the universe. If they are polite and well mannered, then you should be worried.

Besides, going to a sporting event in Philly and complaining about how hostile the fans are is like standing in the ocean and complaining about how wet it is. 😂😂😂

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Baseball Writers' Association of America Award Prediction

AL ROTY: I could see both Gunnar and Triston winning it. Imma be real. I'll be happy with either one NL ROTY: Corbin Caroll. It's EZ. AL Manager: Bruce Bochy cause the Rangers won the post season! NL Manager: Brian Snitker cause the Braves had a historic regular season! AL Cy Young: Gerrit Cole and it isnt close. If I see that he loses it you will see me on your local CBS / Fox / NBC news station covered in blood with his jersey on holding his funko pop with a hatchet in my other hand NL Cy Young: I was team Blake Snell but seeing Gallen's no hit through six I am now a Gallen believer AL MVP: Shohei, and it's crazy cause you could make arguments for Seager and Semien since they WON THE WORLD SERIES and had an amazing regular season. If Shohei doesnt win I think the MLVB headquarters will be set on fire so... NL MVP: Ronald Acuna Jr. Postseason choke aside I think he def earned it. I love you Mookie, and you could make a case for Mookie as well, but i am proud fr.

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First Walkoff Win of 2023, April 6th, 2023

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The 2023 #BBWAA NL Manager of the Year Award finalists:

Craig Counsell - Milwaukee

Skip Schumaker - Miami

Brian Snitker - Atlanta

#MLB #ManageroftheYear

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The winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 14th at 6:00 PM (EST) on #MLBNetwork.

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Once Again, the Braves Won the NL East. Now the Real Work Begins.

PHILADELPHIA — During spring training, Atlanta manager Brian Snitker reminded his players of their objective. They wanted to win the World Series. But first they had to win the National League East. “That’s the number one goal,” he said before Wednesday’s 4–1 win over the Phillies checked that box for the sixth straight year. “We’re not able to do anything special until we win the division.” On…

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SE PONEN BRAVOS

Atlanta.- Después de convertirse en el primer equipo clasificado a los playoffs, los Bravos de Atlanta empezaron a apuntar mucho más alto

“Quería felicitar a todos, pero nuestro máximo objetivo tras la pretemporada es ganar la División”, dijo el manager Brian Snitker luego que los Bravos remontaron ayer para vencer 5-2 a los Piratas de Pittsburgh.

Matt Olson se fue 3-2, con tres empujadas.

Atlanta aventaja a los Filis, sus perseguidores inmediatos, por 15 juegos en la División Este de la Liga Nacional previo al inicio de una serie de cuatro partidos desde hoy en Filadelfia. Si los Bravos ganan tres de cuatro, asegurarán su sexta corona consecutiva en la División.

“Nos esperan cuatro juegos muy difíciles en cuatro días”, dijo Snitker. “Su alineación es igual de fuerte a la nuestra”.

Al asegurar la clasificación al cabo de 142 juegos, los Bravos igualaron a los Rojos de Cincinnati de 1975 por la sexta menor cantidad de partidos para sellar el boleto de postemporada en una temporada de 162 duelos, según el Elias Sports Bureau. Los Yanquis en 1998 fijaron el récord al lograrlo al término de 135 juegos.

Atlanta (93-49) alcanzó la postemporada por sexto año consecutivo, la segunda racha más larga en la historia de la franquicia. Los Bravos ganaron 11 títulos seguidos del Este de la Liga Nacional entre 1995 y 2005.

El venezolano Roland Acuña Jr. tuvo un sencillo, para encender la remontada en la séptima entrada, además de dos hits remolcadores.

Brad Hand (4-1) ganó en relevo del novato Allan Winans, quien permitió dos carreras y seis imparables, ponchando a ocho en 6 1/3 entradas.

Por los Piratas, el dominicano Liover Peguero de 4-0.

Por los Bravos, los venezolanos Acuña Jr. de 3-1 con una anotada y dos remolcadas, Orlando Arcia de 3-0 con una anotada. El dominicano Marcell Ozuna de 4-0. El boricua Eddie Rosario de 4-1.

(Associated Press)