All good things have to end and that includes runs of successive winning seasons. From the 2018 season until the 2024 season, the Atlanta Braves enjoyed seven consecutive seasons of enjoying a winning record with six of those winning seasons with the fruit of NL East titles and of course that magical run to the World Series Championship 2021.
The Braves cannot make eight winning seasons in a row. In the 147th game of the season, the Braves dropped one on the Houston Astros (the club they defeated in the 2021 World Series, leth You) to lose their 82nd game of the season, affirming as their first loss of 2017. Maybe “nice to watch”) And of course it ended with the bomb that the then general manager John Coppolella would soon be banned from baseball for illegal activities on the international market for free agencies.
Fast forward to 2025 and expectations could not have been higher or different for this year’s Braves team. It was generally predicted that the team of this season would have been a minimum after the season, with some points of sale even said that this team was a World Series -Competent. Instead, the team came out of the gates with a terrible 0-7 start West against the Padres and Dodgers while he lost Reynaldo López for the season and Jurickson Profar for 80 games because of a PED suspension.
The hope then was that this would be a blip and for a while the Braves scratched and dresses to a competition over .500 at the end of the action on May 18. Atlanta remained exactly one day for more than one day and they never saw those elevated heights again for the rest of the season, because the 0-7 starts with two important players who were missing for the long term who got a bit of a blue one. After viewing .500 with a victory over the Red Sox on the above date of 18 May, the Braves continued with 41-58 from that point ahead until they dropped their 82nd game of the season. It probably looks that they will continue and for the first time since 2017 also lose 90 games. For what it is worth, it cost the 2017 Braves 149 matches before they eventually succumbed to a losing season, so that you can get every mileage that you can get out of that specific performance.
Needless to say, this is a terrible failure for the Braves and one that leaves the team more questions in the future than answers. Will this line -up with the current core of players ever touch the vein of consistency that defined their success in the past few seasons? Can the rotation bounce back after it has been destroyed by an injury? Will the bullpen be functional next season? Will Brian Snitker even be close as a manager of the team? It’s all in the air, because this team certainly has an intriguing offsean for it.
Whatever they decide to do in the low season, it is clear that a kind of reset is needed. Whether it is a symbolic reset where the team gives a serious reconsideration of the practices and approaches that they have brought to this point or if it is a real reset that involves a number of serious changes in the staff, something has to change because it is clear that they cannot continue to do and expect to return to relevance. We will see what happens and what answers we get as soon as the low season finally rolls around, but for now it’s time to see how bad this will be before the end finally arrives as soon as the sun goes down on September 28.
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