Atlanta braves's chris medlin, Incredible Stats!! 23 GAMES AND COUNTING!

[barrysloate]

Kimbrel is averaging nearly 17 strikeouts per nine innings, and opponents batting average is the lowest for any pitcher in the history of baseball!

Could the Braves be a dark horse to win it all this year?

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

kimbrel is averaging nearly 17 strikeouts per nine innings, and opponents batting average is the lowest for any pitcher in the history of baseball!

Could the braves be a dark horse to win it all this year?

barry- i remeber something very similar with your giants a couple of years ago....kimbrel gets my vote for the cy young by the way.

[barrysloate]

I know Kevin...Giants were not expected to do much of anything in 2010, and who picked the Cards to win it all in 2011? Maybe we will have another surprise champion this year (of course if the Giants happen to win again I won't complain)

[CMIZ5290]

If any team is due it would be the braves. In all reality they should have won at least 3 or 4 world series in the chipper jones era. From a total team perspective, i believe this is as good of a team they have had including the 95 team that won it all. They need uggla to be hot in the post season though....

[barrysloate]

The Braves just finished their regular season and here is a stat regarding Craig Kimbrel:

He faced 231 batters this season and struck out 116 of them. He thus becomes the first pitcher in major league history to strike out more than half the batters he faced.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

the braves just finished their regular season and here is a stat regarding craig kimbrel:

He faced 231 batters this season and struck out 116 of them. He thus becomes the first pitcher in major league history to strike out more than half the batters he faced.

absolutely amazing....he averaged 17 strikeouts per 9 innings, and his era was a whopping 1.01. I have never been keen on giving the cy young to a reliever, but he has simply done too much not to get it. He has shattered records that have stood for 100 years....

[Jlighter]

Three blown saves, only 62.2 IP, I'm going with Dickey.