How can this be?/Open Thread, 5.5 #Braves vs. Filthadelphia

Talk about your meaningless small sample sizes. If someone only watched Franggla play against the Braves, they’d think these guys were Miggy Cabrera.

Uggla and Francoeur vs. the Braves in 2015: .407 BA, 10 RBI, 8 extra base hits

Uggla and Francoeur vs. the rest of baseball: .152 BA, 5 RBI (4 for Frenchy), 6 XBHs

Lest one suspects the Nats thought Uggla’s outburst in Atlanta portended more miracles, that team of shitheads has played four games since and Uggla has appeared in one of them.

Most galling of all, perhaps: Uggla has been paid $75 million to play baseball, $61 million by the Braves, according to baseball-reference.com. Speaking of, the fam and I attended a kid birthday party at the…