The ATL Thread | Offseason Edition

It’s not a good approach in the regular season either unless you’re hitting 320 homers. A serious philosophical evaluation needs to occur offensively for sure.

Way way too many strikeouts and not enough walks. The sell out for EV is a little questionable to begin with but if you’re not hitting homers it’s going to lead to awful results.

Maybe next year, let’s not have our a starting lineup only play 6 games together

If the team puts up a white banner next year a la 2010/2012 I'm gonna be pissed.

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Trade Sale.

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Lol

Maybe MLB will go back to the 2023 balls.

Kiley McDaniel and Eno Sarris have both suggested in the last few weeks (slightly differing versions of this theory) that the rough theory around the sport is that the Braves philosophy in 2023 (especially early in the year) was to sit slider no matter the count figuring eventually they were going to get one. They absolutely destroyed sliders in the zone and rarely ever chased them. First half of 2023 they had a team OPS of over .900 against sliders. Second half of the season teams became afraid of throwing them sliders and slurves and just started pounding fastballs against them and the Braves adjusted. And remember the conventional wisdom in the sport recently has been elevated fastballs and low offspeed stuff. So visually if you’re sitting on one or the other it’s easy to differentiate. The Phillies flipped the script on them again and went back to a slider heavy approach in the NLDS but didn’t throw them for strikes often, instead throwing low fastballs for strikes and sliders for balls. Braves got caught in between and we know what happened.

League picked up on it and threw the Braves the third most fastballs in the lower third of the zone this year and almost double the amount of sliders out of the zone they saw in 2023. Since Braves couldn’t sit on the slider or differentiate as well with the fastball locations, they went from 2nd in wRC+ vs. off speed to 25th this season.

Obviously some is much weaker personnel but the cat and mouse game makes a lot of sense.

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Trade Sale.

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Bro, he was literally the best pitcher in baseball this year. He's obviously somewhat injury prone (like pretty much any pitcher), but you have to roll the dice with him next year under a very reasonable contract. He's basically getting paid what Charlie Morton has made the last few years.

If the Braves had to be put out by any team, I’m glad it was San Diego. Personally rooting for them and Detroit to go all the way

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Time to bring in Jonah Hill from Moneyball to figure out what we need at SS and LF

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Wasn't the original premise to try and find cheap guys to replace the production they lost? Not very hard to replace the production at SS and LF this season.