The Atlanta Braves flipped the script this past decade and were more offense-oriented than in the past few decades.
Just as we did with the pitching side of things, we now are going to look at the best individual hitting seasons for the Atlanta Braves over the past decade.
You’re going to see many of the familiar names you would associate with big-time Atlanta Braves offense in this piece.
You might even see the same name twice among the following five individual season performances. Let’s get to it.
#5 Chipper Jones in 2011
Did you really expect to go through an Atlanta Braves offense based list and not see Chipper Jones appear at all? Two-thousand-and-eleven was admittedly not the best year of Chipper Jones’ career, but it was still among his more impressive considering he was nearing the end of his Hall of Fame career.
Despite only hitting 18 home runs on the season and only driving in 70, he still found a way to bat .275 at the plate. And the most impressive part of it all to me is he only had 80 strikeouts among 512 at-bats.
He also found a way to rattle off 33 doubles despite his knees visibly starting to bother him on a regular basis due to his age and all the miles put on them.
We all know that Chipper decided to hang up his cleats after 1 more run with the Braves, but as these numbers will all indicate, he was not the guy he was in the years prior
But he was still very much a threat at the plate, and he was a constant figure in the 3 hole for the Atlanta Braves in the lineup.