Last season’s Atlanta Braves rotation was one of baseball’s most youthful, with 125 starts coming from pitchers age-25 or younger.
With Jaime’ Garcia, Bartolo Colon and R.A. Dickey currently comprising three-fifths of the Braves rotation look for that to change considerably in 2017. Garcia is closer to his prime, Colon is the Most GIFable Man In Baseball, but a Dickey at full strength, dancing his knuckler all over the plate, could lift the Braves to a place many don’t expect them to occupy this season: contention.
2016 In Review
The bad news up front: Dickey wasn’t particularly good for Toronto last season.