The full Buzz, which includes more opinions and extras like a weekly poll and pithy quotes, arrives via email around 1:30 p.m. The above is part of a regular exercise, written and curated by yours truly, available to all who register on AJC.com for our free Sports Daily newsletter. The second saw them win the World Series. The first saw them take the Dodgers to Game 7 of the NLCS. Then I remind myself that they had a year when their rotation collapsed (2020) and another when their outfield fell to pieces (2021).
Good luck with that.Ī part of me – the worrywart part – wonders if the Braves are due to have a season where things, as things will, go wrong. They’re paying Verlander and Max Scherzer $86.6M this season the aggregate age of the two pitchers is 78 years and eight months. Their payroll has ballooned to $336 million – that’s $146M more than the Cobb County crew – and they’ll finish second again, or maybe third. The Mets have won it six times over 53 seasons. The Braves have won the East five years running. Still, the Braves have won two World Series since the Mets won any. To be fair, the Braves didn’t linger much longer in October 2022, being ousted by the Phillies in Round 2. When last we saw Cohen’s crew, it was being eliminated by the Padres in the wild card round after being run down by the Braves and, despite winning 101 games, finishing second on a tiebreaker. Coming off Tommy John surgery, MVP Bryce Harper isn’t expected back until July.Ĭohen took to Twitter on Thursday to express his condolences to Diaz – “a great human being.” He also tweeted: “All of us at the Mets are shaken but determined to sustain our quest for a great season.” The Mets are at 26.1 percent, the Phillies at 11.7. San Diego is given the second-best chance at 12.1 percent.Īs for the National League East: FanGraphs assigns the Braves a 60 percent chance of finishing first. They’re given a 92.6 percent chance to make the playoffs, a 15.5 percent chance of winning the World Series.
Still, updated FanGraphs projections have the Braves winning 94.8 games, more than any other MLB club. Not everything has gone well for the Braves this spring.
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