Ronald Acuna Jr. Injury Shakes Atlanta Braves' Season

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00:00 So after the weekend that was for the Atlanta Braves in the bombshell news on

00:07 Sunday that Ronald Acuna Jr. has torn an ACL and is out for the remainder of this

00:13 year what is the vibe Mark Zinno around the ATL? That well I mean the Braves feel

00:22 kind of cooked. I said that it was sort of tongue-in-cheek you know then people

00:27 will remind you well they won the World Series last time without Ronald Acuna

00:31 and I would say yeah it's kind of foolish to think you can do that again

00:36 like you don't take not only your best position player off the team but your

00:41 best pitcher off the team and then go yeah we'll just run it back and win the

00:45 World Series again especially when nobody's hitting nobody I mean there is

00:51 I it might be a little bit premature and I don't think Kevin Sizer the hitting

00:55 coach would get fired by any stretch of the imagination because he's built up a

00:58 ton of goodwill here but I mean there have been some rumblings that the

01:03 hitting has been that bad around here that it might cost somebody their job I

01:08 think what happens here in short order is guys that Alex Santhopolis is left to

01:12 do what Alex Santhopolis does and that's go fleece somebody for a really good

01:17 player that helps them win and gives them next to nothing I mean that's kind

01:20 of what we've come to expect from Alex Santhopolis at the trade deadline and

01:23 it's probably gonna come even sooner than that I don't think he's waiting

01:26 till July I think they'll wait another week or two to see if Sean Murphy and

01:30 Austin Riley provide any juice to this lineup they certainly didn't last night

01:34 as I cashed the first five under but you know this is a spot where if they don't

01:39 start to hit the ball very quickly you're going to see some changes being

01:43 made because guess what even if Philadelphia does regress to the mean a

01:49 little bit if you're not hitting and the Braves aren't scoring you're not

01:52 catching Philadelphia you're not

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