The Atlanta Braves stack up well on paper, but that doesn’t always help, as we saw displayed on Thursday. Let’s review the rankings we’ve made now that the regular seasons is now underway and see what we might have already learned… or what might already have changed.
Here’s the links to the original pieces:
Now here’s how we ranked each team’s starting player (or tandem of players) at each position from the NL East:
- C – PHL / WAS / NYM / ATL / MIA
- 1B – ATL / PHL / NYM / WAS / MIA
- 2B – ATL / NYM / PHL / WAS / MIA
- 3B – WAS / ATL / NYM / MIA / PHL
- SS – WAS / PHL / ATL / NYM / MIA
- LF – ATL / WAS / NYM / PHL / MIA
- CF – WAS / ATL / NYM / PHL / MIA
- RF – PHL / NYM / WAS / ATL / MIA
Now – let’s take the extra step or two: I will blind assign points to each ranking position and tallying them up to determine how the teams fare all together (5 points for 1st, 4 for second… etc).