Atlanta Braves First-Quarter Season Review
The season has already had its ups and downs… so let’s step back and see where the Braves really are.
The Atlanta Braves are a little over a quarter of the way through their season so I felt it a good time to take a look at where they stand currently and where they’re going potentially.
There’s no real reason I chose to do this at this point other than 25% is a nice round-ish number and people really love their round numbers.
That’s why we randomly celebrate a guy’s 100th home run but usually let number 102 or 111 go by without much recognition. But, hey, people are weird.
This will be a 4-part series. I’ll write similar posts around the half way point (game 81), 3 quarter mark (game 121), and then we’ll do a post-mortem on the entire season at its conclusion.
To analyze the season so far, we’re going to look at both team wide metrics and their rankings as well as individual breakdowns by positional groups.
Obviously any breakdown is going to involve looking at their current W-L record but we’re also going to look their BaseRuns record and projections as well as their Pythagorean record and projections. If you have no idea what those are, no worries, I’ll explain as we get there.
And as always, mixed in with the numbers are some opinions and commentary which you’re free to disagree with. Just be respectful.
Off we go.