To put it mildly, the 2021 season has not gone as planned for the Atlanta Braves. To put it more directly would require using words I probably shouldn’t use in my first post at Talking Chop.
As the trade deadline approaches, the Braves‘ record sits at 47-49, a .489 winning percentage. Over a full season, a .489 winning percentage is 79-83. At no point did even the most pessimistic projections of the Braves’ 2021 season have them finishing with a sub-80 win total. So what’s happened?
Injuries are certainly part of the equation. Ronald Acuña Jr and Mike Soroka are both out for the year.