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3 compelling reasons the Atlanta Braves could win the World Series

By Clint Manry

BOSTON, MA - OCTOBER 31: The World Series trophy is hoisted in the air during the 2018 World Series victory parade for the Boston Red Sox on October 31, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)
BOSTON, MA - OCTOBER 31: The World Series trophy is hoisted in the air during the 2018 World Series victory parade for the Boston Red Sox on October 31, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images) /
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28 OCT 1995: David  JUSTICE HIGH FIVES RYAN  KLESKO AS JUSTICE SCORES THE ONLY RUN OF THE GAME AFTER HIS GAME WINNING HOME RUN IN THE SIXTH INNING OF GAME 6 OF THE WORLD SERIES AT FULTON COUNTY STADIUM IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA AFTER ATLANTA DEFEATED CLEVELAND 1
28 OCT 1995: David  JUSTICE HIGH FIVES RYAN  KLESKO AS JUSTICE SCORES THE ONLY RUN OF THE GAME AFTER HIS GAME WINNING HOME RUN IN THE SIXTH INNING OF GAME 6 OF THE WORLD SERIES AT FULTON COUNTY STADIUM IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA AFTER ATLANTA DEFEATED CLEVELAND 1 /

The reality

We could analyze every aspect of this Atlanta Braves team, breakdown its strengths and weaknesses, and even do the same for the other playoff teams; but the truth is, the playoffs are a crapshoot. 

The Braves could wield the most powerful and prolific offense during the regular season, only to be suffocated by elite pitching in the postseason. You just never know.

Often times the difference between a World Series win and a first-round loss is a combination of events that you never saw coming. That’s the beauty of baseball.

The Braves may win it all this year, off the backs of a strength they developed in the playoffs that maybe was a huge weakness in the previous six months of the regular season. Just as well, the Braves’ postseason could very well be short-lived, due to a flaw that was never corrected.

As I eluded to in the first slide of this piece, there are no blueprints to winning a World Series, no owners’ instructions to give teams a nice and neat set of guidelines.

There are only players and their performances in a small sample-size; managers and their decisions multiplied in significance; and a pool of the regular season’s best teams trying to win a series of small battles with each victory pushing them closer to winning the war.

Postseason X factors. dark. Next

And looking at this year’s version of the Atlanta Braves… I like their chances.

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