Hello! It’s Demetrius Bell, the internet’s local blogging Braves nerd. So, um, this take that you absolutely have to play every game that you possibly can and built-in days off are kind of bad? It’s um, it’s not good.
Yep. To take it a step further, that take is “nooooooo gooooooood,” as a really speedy blue hedgehog from the 1990s would say. I’ll start with the understandable parts, which is what Hannah Keyser pointed out in her article on the subject. I definitely recommend that you read it, since she’s pretty fair in pointing out that there have been a couple of situations where forcing a guy onto the field — namely, Freddie Freeman pressuring someone to play in the friendliest, most Freddie Freeman-est way possible — ended up working out for the Braves.