If there’s one thing to take away from last year’s Mets, it’s that even the slowest of starts is not insurmountable.
The 2024 Mets stumbled to an 0-5 record, then spiraled to an even-bleaker 22-33 mark, before they rebounded with an epic summer surge that they rode all the way to the NLCS.
That should give the Atlanta Braves at least a modicum of hope.
Indeed, the free-falling Braves are the NL East team trying to dig out of an early hole in 2025. Sunday’s 4-0 loss to the Miami Marlins dropped the Braves to 1-8 — a stunning reality even the boldest of baseball prognosticators couldn’t have envisioned.