Atlanta Braves Morning Chop: prognostication progress
Pitchers’ Progress
Pitchers Q1: Number of starters with double-digit wins (3 in 2017)?
- Mike Foltynewicz and Sean Newcomb are already there: 10 wins
- Julio Teheran is looking good to get there: 8 wins
- Anibal Sanchez and Brandon McCarthy are both sitting on 6 wins.
- So – 3 is the likely answer, though it will be close on getting a 4th.
Pitchers Q2: Relievers ERA (was 4.58 in 2017; 5th worst – MLB range was 2.89 to 5.63):
- Before Monday’s game: 4.20 ERA
- Hopefully, this is continuing to trend downward after a rough start to 2018
- Atlanta is still 19th in the majors, though a perfect Monday evening could improve things (Rangers: 4.16).
- Of note: only 4 NL clubs have a worse bullpen ERA (Cards, Mets, Rockies, Marlins)
Pitchers Q3: Starting pitchers strikeout-to-walk ratio (was 2.11 in 2017; majors’ range was 1.74 to 4.15; highest numbers mean fewer BB’s):
- Braves’ K-per-9 rate: 8.56
- BB-per-9 rate: 3.56
- Current rate: an improved 2.40.
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Pitchers Q4: How many starting pitchers will the Braves use in 2018 (11 in 2017):
- Let’s see… what time is it? Has is changed again already?
- Bryse Wilson became the thirteenth this year.
- The list: Folty, Newk, Sanchez, Soroka, Fried, Gausman, Wisler, McCarthy, Teheran, Toussaint, Gohara, Allard, and Wilson.
- Unless something drastic happens, the only other possible add-on to that list I could imagine would be Kyle Wright.
Pitchers Q5: Number of combined innings in 2018: Teheran, Folty, Newcomb:
- So far, this trio has, in fact, been the workhorses of the Braves’ ever-widening stable of starters.
- 139 (Folty), 135 (Newcomb), and 133.2 (Teheran)
- That adds up to 407.2 innings.
- They are on pace for 532 innings… not a bad total.
- Each has exactly 24 starts… 72 total
So that’s the run-down… if you’ve been keeping track, you’d have to argue that is nearly every aspect of these stats, the Braves have improved.
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It’s that kind of across-the-board performance that has put this team in the position they currently occupy: first place.