2025 Around The League Thread

thewupk said:
Yup. The .512 win % of the Reds is the lowest to take a WC spot since the WC became a thing.

Looks like the 2005 Padres are the only worst team to make it periood with a .506 WP but they won a truly horrible NL West that year.
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I’m sure they’ll make a run to the NLCS and everyone will talk about how great it is for baseball.
 
CyYoung31 said:
I’m sure they’ll make a run to the NLCS and everyone will talk about how great it is for baseball.
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Their big 3 can match up with anyone. So you never know in a short series. And Pagan and Santillan are the best back end combo in baseball too. If they get to the 7th inning with the lead, they can almost guarantee a win.
 
In trying to create a record narrative of this season it seems to me that it was the tale of 47's. First 47 games - 24-23 (hanging tough despite an 0-7 start), last 47 games 28-19 (Getting Waldrep, Sale back, offense found). But those middle 68...

In those 68, we had a 5-16 record in 1-run games (including 5 games in a row, which has to be a record), lost to the worst team of all time in run diff by the score of 10-1, and was otherwise the worst team in the league. 24-44 was only two games better than the Rockies record during the same span.

I know most of you were like - "The season is lost, let's tank", but I was buoyed by the Braves play down the stretch, only because I saw the talent was still there and things look brighter for the future. I feel like if we hadn't lost our pitching in the second half there were seven games to find there in July. 83 wins is not a high bar. We could have gone 31-37 in that middle 68 AND made the playoffs.
 
Nerfherders said:
In trying to create a record narrative of this season it seems to me that it was the tale of 47's. First 47 games - 24-23 (hanging tough despite an 0-7 start), last 47 games 28-19 (Getting Waldrep, Sale back, offense found). But those middle 68...

In those 68, we had a 5-16 record in 1-run games (including 5 games in a row, which has to be a record), lost to the worst team of all time in run diff by the score of 10-1, and was otherwise the worst team in the league. 24-44 was only two games better than the Rockies record during the same span.

I know most of you were like - "The season is lost, let's tank", but I was buoyed by the Braves play down the stretch, only because I saw the talent was still there and things look brighter for the future. I feel like if we hadn't lost our pitching in the second half there were seven games to find there in July. 83 wins is not a high bar. We could have gone 31-37 in that middle 68 AND made the playoffs.
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What was the injury situation for those middle-68. It seems that the pitching staff injuries came in the midst of that stretch but even without those injuries the team just couldn't find its footing. Iglesias was terrible early, but found himself. Rock-paper-scissors (at least for me) if he should return. I wouldn't go for more than one year, but I think someone will give him two. Olson was off-and-on to extreme degrees pretty much all season. Acuna had good results, but he didn't seemed to be the disruptor we had come to expect (knee injuries will do that). It just seemed that until the last 47 games, the team did not play well in all facets consistently. Kim was here for approximately half of those last 47 and he was a sifnificant upgrade at SS. Curious what his decision will be vis-a-vis his option.

There's the old baseball adage (and I paraphrase) "Ignore April and September" and the bookends to the Braves' 2025 season paint wildly different pictures. I am really curious how the front office will approach the off-season. There is a solid core on the team (it upticks dramatically if Riley returns healthy and Harris rebounds) and the pitching looks good (perhaps stellar with returns to health of the injured), but after this year's results, I am hesitant to go out on a limb regarding 2026.
 
Nice to know our 8-5 record vs the Mets contributed. By my count the Mets have won the season head to head matchups 4 times since 1997.......
 
50PoundHead said:
What was the injury situation for those middle-68. It seems that the pitching staff injuries came in the midst of that stretch but even without those injuries the team just couldn't find its footing. Iglesias was terrible early, but found himself. Rock-paper-scissors (at least for me) if he should return. I wouldn't go for more than one year, but I think someone will give him two. Olson was off-and-on to extreme degrees pretty much all season. Acuna had good results, but he didn't seemed to be the disruptor we had come to expect (knee injuries will do that). It just seemed that until the last 47 games, the team did not play well in all facets consistently. Kim was here for approximately half of those last 47 and he was a sifnificant upgrade at SS. Curious what his decision will be vis-a-vis his option.

There's the old baseball adage (and I paraphrase) "Ignore April and September" and the bookends to the Braves' 2025 season paint wildly different pictures. I am really curious how the front office will approach the off-season. There is a solid core on the team (it upticks dramatically if Riley returns healthy and Harris rebounds) and the pitching looks good (perhaps stellar with returns to health of the injured), but after this year's results, I am hesitant to go out on a limb regarding 2026.
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Ozuna fell off a cliff right as Acuna came back which really hurt. Its amazing we did so well in those first 47 with ghost of Dan Kolb possessing Iggy at that time.
 
The longer we wait on a Snit decision is that a sign the Braves are giving him the choice and he’s weighing whether he wants to come back or is the wait because they are negotiating with him on a new role with the org?
 
CyYoung31 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1972755084132982946

Other manager decisions are getting announced. This Snitker situation is so weird.

By the way, I might take Baldelli.
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It was a mercy killing by the Twins. Their fire sale at the deadline was like a punch to the gut for Baldelli and the remaining players. The post-deadline bullpen and to some extent the rotation was a convention of AAAA players.

I like Baldelli. He came to Minnesota as this laid back guy (one sportscaster called him the Baldelli Lama), but the Twins' personnel decisions the last two off-seasons seemed to put him on edge. He's analytically driven to a great extent (at least he was as a coach in Tampa Bay), but he wasn't averse to throwing crap at the wall when with the Twins. Of course, when the players are crap, that's what you're throwing. He may not be suited for managing, but he'd be a top-tier bench coach.
 
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