Atlanta Braves Ace Spencer Strider Wishes It was 2020, Wants To Pitch In Front Of Empty Stadiums

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The 2020-2021 sports season was incredibly strange to watch, and certainly to play in, with no or limited fans in the stands. It’s great to have packed stadiums and arenas all over the world. But, for Atlanta Braves ace Spencer Strider, he’d rather it goes back to empty crowds.

Spencer Strider has been fantastic this season for the best-in-baseball Braves. The Cy Young candidate is 19-5 with a league-best 274 strikeouts, as he’s been wiping out hitters all season long with incredible stuff. Don’t be fooled by his 3.80 ERA, either. That’s incredibly unlucky, as his FIP, an adjusted stat that is supposed to be a sort of true ERA, is nearly a full run lower at 2.87.

Padres ace Blake Snell has had a fantastic September to pull away in the NL Cy Young race, but no one would argue that the 24-year-old is one of the best pitchers in baseball.

That doesn’t mean he’s void of some pretty terrible takes, though. He was asked by MLB Fits if he had any sports hot takes. And, he surely had a spicy one.

“Absolutely there should be no fans. 2020 season, no fans. Get rid of the fans. Too loud, it’s too loud. Everybody be quiet. We don’t need the cheering. We know you’re watching. I don’t need the fans. You stay outside the stadium, I mean back it up. Let’s do a no lower-bowl thing. You know, just kind of upper decks, great. Upper deck’s great. Outfield, phenomenal. We don’t need you around the dugouts. Just try and be quiet.”

Spencer Strider should’ve kept that take to himself. Imagine how fans in Philadelphia or Los Angeles will treat him in the upcoming playoffs after knowing he said that.