Atlanta Braves First-Quarter Season Review
Stats
First let just look at some basics. Here’s the Braves Team Stats and MLB Ranks:
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Hitting
| wRC+ | 105 | 9th |
| OBA | .336 | 8th |
| AVG | .278 | 2nd |
| OBP | .350 | 2nd |
| SLG | .433 | 11th |
| ISO | .155 | 22nd |
| BABIP | .326 | T-1st |
| SB | 27 | 9th |
| BB% | 8.5% | 22nd |
| K% | 19.4% | 8th |
Pitching
| ERA | 4.70 | 25th |
| FIP | 4.82 | 28th |
| WHIP | 1.39 | 23rd |
| K% | 17.3% | 30th |
| BB% | 8.8% | 16th |
| HR/9 | 1.39 | 25th |
| bBABIP | .286 | 13th |
| SP ERA | 4.57 | 22nd |
| RP ERA | 4.56 | 21st |
This doesn’t really take a beautiful mind to figure out. The charts speak for themselves.
The Braves are hitting like one of the 10 best teams and pitching like one of the 10 worst teams making them, to this point, one of the 10 most average teams. If you’ve watched them play this year, all of this is pretty much in line with what you’ve seen.
Now let’s look at the positional breakdown. This is position and Braves MLB rank by fWAR:
| C | 5th |
| 1B | 1st |
| 2B | 27th |
| 3B | 30th |
| SS | 26th |
| RF | 15th |
| CF | 6th |
| LF | 20th |
| SP | 29th |
| RP | 24th |
Now a couple of things I need to point out, specifically about 2B and LF.
All the backups that have been used at those positions count against the overall numbers. So the terrible numbers of Jace Peterson, Emilio Bonifacio and Danny Santana really hurt those 2 positions.
If you just took the production of the main two guys, Matt Kemp and Brandon Phillips, Braves would rank 13th at 2B and 9th in LF.
With that being said, there shouldn’t be anything surprising about any of this. Dansby Swanson got off to that horrible start so it’s going to be a while before he can pull his number up and Adonis Garcia has been one of the worst players in baseball for two years now so that 3B rank shouldn’t shock anyone.
Other points of note, Freddie Freeman is a monster; Ender Inciarte is also a monster, just in a different kind of way; the catching group has been the pleasant surprise of the first 45 games; and the pitching has sucked.