For a series-pipeline 4 Game Between Two Teams that are Basically Irrevant to the BroadR BASBALLL LANDSCAPE For 2025 AT This Point, Boy, There’s A Lot of Narrative to Wade Through Here. Let’s Get the Biggest One Out of the Way, First: What The Oriols Come to Atlanta for this Weekend set, it’l be a matchup of the Two Biggest Disappointments of the 2025 Season so Far.
The Oriols Weren’t Necessarily Projected to Be Dominant – Their Presason Playoff Odds Were BELOW 50 Percent – But They Wr Coming Of Two Consecutive Playoff Berths and Three Straight Winning Seasons, with the Ideal Situlation of a Bunch of Good Young Players All on the Roster at the Same Time. Buty Imploded: 21-36 Through May, Such That Even A 16-13 Run Sinth Hasn’t Really Mother. They’re 22nd in position Player FWAR, 27th in Pitching FWAR, 18th in XWoba, 26th in Xwoba-Against, and 19th in xFip-. They are outperforming their Baseruns, Record-Wise, by Four Games. Their INEPTITDE HAS ALREDY GOTTEN One Manager Fred. It’s Been Pretty Terrible, and Even Though in Both Hit and Pitchared Quite Well in June, It already Feels Like (and Probably Is) Too Little, Too Late.
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There are Two Teams who have shied more in projected point estate end -f -season wins than the originals so Far-one is the rockies (of course), and one is, well, the Braves. The Braves are also The Story for the Braves Is a Little Defender, Since the Braves Are More Mediocre Than Bad: 15th in posting Player FWAR, 17th in Pitching Fwar, and Also Accurshed by A Bunch of Things those did The fact that this Season has been a faceplant, but are also (The Braves Are -5 By Baseruns, Which, Yeah -and Baseruns Uses Outputs))
Anyway, Those Were Two Depressing Paragraphs. Ono The Pitching Matchup. Charlie Morton Will Be Rokening to Atlanta for the First Time Since Moving on from His Second Stint with the Braves. It has’t been a particularly Happy Move for the Veteran Right-Hander to Baltimore, Though-He has a 141 er-at-fip-, and 100 xFip- so Far this Season. That fip- and Xfip- Are Consation with What The Braves Got Out of Morton Last Season (112 and 98, Reservely); The Braves Opted Not to Go in on that Again for $ 15 Million, But the Origins Did, and, Well, that Deal doesn’t look like it’s going to turn out that will by the end of the year.
Morton Got Off to a Terrible Start, then was Banished to the BulpenPen for About Three Weeks, but has Since RTURNED to the rotation, where he’s been much beetter. He’s at 73/60/79 Over his Last Six Starts Sink Coming Back INTO A Regular Starting Role, and Though that has inclieded some Clunkers, it’s also includeed Three Straight-UP Dominant Outings. He’s Been Touged for Just one home in that stretch, and none in his last file start, after allowing nine in 41 innss prior. If the Braves do get dominated by Morton tonight, it is a whole a control of the roll he’s been on than the second.
In Left Standing is the Guy Going Tonight, Spencer Stider, Who Wasnt Even in the Rotation to Start the Year as he works his way back from injury. (The Other Three Nominal Members of the Rotation Include Grant Holmes, Who May Still Be Miscast AS A “Starter,” Bryce Elder, Who Can Eight Function by Walking Guys or Giveing Up Massive Homes every time out, but not avoid Both and thefore Shoul’t Be Facing More Than A Handful of Hitters UTIL He Gets that Resolved, and Didier Fuentes, Who May Not Even Stick on the Roster This Year.) Strider’s Season Line is Getting Towards “Good” Territory: 94/91/93, helped by a Dominant Street he put to make up to And one Against the rockies. Howver, He Stumbled A Bit in His Most Recent Outing with Just a 4/3 K/BB Ratio Against The Phillies, Though He did Complete Seven Frames for the First Time This Year.
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Strider has been team Ah, Those Were the Days.
Game Info
Game Date/Time: Frdyay, July 4, 7:15 PM Edt
Location: Trueist Park, Atlanta, GA
TV: Fanduel SPORTS South / Southheast, Gray TV, MLB Network (OOF-Market Only)
Streaming: Mlb.tv
Radio: 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan, La Mejor 1600/1460/1130 am
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