Atlanta Braves 2018: Kids these days, I swear

that was practically the rotation for the year though, no? i was actually thinking back to how this might be the most successful 100+ win team with basically 3 SPs all year and one was garbage the second half of the season! an absolute true testament to how dominant the offense was all year.

Don't really get the Jeff Francoeur reference (he likes to clown around?), but this is great:

Brandon Gaudin for Broadcaster of the Year. 🤣

"So the Braves go from Johnson to Hand and the batter will be Mastrobuoni...and it's probably a good thing Jeff Francoeur is in the other booth." ✊🍆 pic.twitter.com/jVLjb6Nx3w

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 27, 2023

pretty pretty impressive

The Atlanta Braves became the first team to slug .500 (.501) for a season. They tied the 2019 Twins for the single-season HR record (307). And they tied the '27 Yankees for top wRC+ (125) of all time.
'27 Yankees 🤝 '23 Braveshttps://t.co/lPxNlNTg0R

— Travis Sawchik (@Travis_Sawchik) October 2, 2023

I was looking at their regular nine-man lineup on Baseball Reference the other day and was awestruck. One guy with 17 HR, another with 18; two guys with 20-30, two with 30-40, two with 40-50, and Olson with 54. Every single one of them between 20-35 doubles. Not much on the bench, but unless someone gets hurt, a moot point.

Even better, think of the catchers with a combined 32 instead of Murphy's 21.

atlanta absolutely pillaged the a's for murphy and olson

ozzie signing an absurdly undervalued contract surely helped, but they are smart like tampa + money

This is great hate-read content