Originally Posted by
Enscheff
FG has the following projections (guessing for Markakis/Duvall in LF), keep in mind the totals for each position include bench contributions at those positions:
C (Flowers/Mac) - 3.5 wins (add ~1 win for framing)
1B (Freeman/Duvall) - 4.4
2B (Albies/Camargo) - 3.6
SS (Swanson/Camargo) - 2.1
3B (JD/Camargo) - 4.5
LF (Markakis/Duvall) - 1.4
CF (Inciarte/Acuna) - 2.7
RF (Acuna/Duvall) - 3.0
DH (Camargo/Riley/Flowers) - 0.5
SP1 (Folty) - 2.7
SP2 (Newk) - 1.7
SP3 (Gausman) - 2.1
SP4 (Teheran) - 0.6
SP5 (Touki/Soroka/Fried/Others) - 2.1
BP (Viz/Minter/O'Day/Others) - 2.4
Total - 37.3 + 48 = 85.3 wins.
While I'll easily take the over on Acuna's projection, I don't disagree with much of that.
I see the Braves as an ~86 win team as currently constructed, with upside for more if the young pitchers like Soroka, Touki and Wright make improvements and push guys like Teheran and Newk out of the rotation.