Braves Rumors: Doppelgänger call-up, bad trade idea, stop hating on Ronald Acuña Jr.
By John Buhler
Braves Rumors: I don’t care what the numbers say, Ronnie is good for béisbol!
When it comes to baseball, I love the Braves, but I hate numbers. Stats were really cool when I was a 10-year-old nerd and still pretty good at math. However, my eyes still work, Ronald Acuña Jr. is outstanding and I don’t need to see a 17-tweet thread about why these numbers somebody just clearly made up on the spot try to tell me otherwise. I will tolerate no Ronnie Béisbol slander!
Happy Friday. Let’s do a defense thread.
— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) May 19, 2023
Bobby Witt has gone from horribly-rated to solid! Let’s find out.
Ronald Acuña Jr. rates as -6 OAA (but+3 DRS). Why? Join me on a journey.
I tried reading through the entire thread from the tweet above, but I didn’t want to bloody up my hand punching my work laptop’s screen in the first hour of my eight-hour shift on a Saturday. It’s Porchfest in VaHi and dude’s gotta play catch-up, just like this acronym about defense I don’t care to understand. This lands with me like the broken analytical nonsense of PER, QBR and whatnot.
When I see Ronnie Béisbol in right field, I know he’s going to make the play more often than not. If you try to run on him, well, you’re pretty stupid for doing that. I don’t need to see him diving for baseballs on the reg to wreck his body like Grady Sizemore or Jacoby Ellsbury once did. I want Acuña to play in right for the Braves until he is a cool Tom Brady 45 with seven World Series rings.
The dude is winning MVP, so anything and everything that indicates otherwise is seen as a threat.
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