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Last year was that are pitchers always gave us a chance to win, but the offense usually blew it. If we wanted to win last year, the pitchers had to give up only like 1-2 runs, wich is av ery unfair amount of pressure. i'm very hopeful that Jason Heyward can releive some of that pressure, and maybe Chipper can have a good performance for bobby Cox's last year. However, im honestly not sure how much good Melky Cabrera will do.
By the way, has anyone heard about Jordan Schafer?
Last year was that are pitchers always gave us a chance to win, but the offense usually blew it. If we wanted to win last year, the pitchers had to give up only like 1-2 runs, wich is av ery unfair amount of pressure.
The Braves were:
48 - 5 when giving up 2 runs or less
18 - 13 when giving up 3 runs
20 - 58 when giving up 4 runs
The Yankees were:
49 - 1 when giving up 2 runs or less
18 - 5 when giving up 3 runs
36 - 53 when giving up 4 or more runs
The Nationals were:
23 - 5 when giving up 2 runs or less
13 - 7 when giving up 3 runs
23 - 91 when giving up 4 or more runs
I wish I had an easy way to gather and chart all the data for this for every team but I think it's pretty clear that giving up 3 runs or less is kind of a magic number in baseball.
The Braves were:
48 - 5 when giving up 2 runs or less
18 - 13 when giving up 3 runs
20 - 58 when giving up 4 runs
The Yankees were:
49 - 1 when giving up 2 runs or less
18 - 5 when giving up 3 runs
36 - 53 when giving up 4 or more runs
The Nationals were:
23 - 5 when giving up 2 runs or less
13 - 7 when giving up 3 runs
23 - 91 when giving up 4 or more runs
I wish I had an easy way to gather and chart all the data for this for every team but I think it's pretty clear that giving up 3 runs or less is kind of a magic number in baseball.
I kinda see your point. But why did you include the Nationals, they lost almost no matter what they did.
Also, other teams still had better records after giving up 3+ then the Braves. a lot better, even if they weren't over .500.
I kinda see your point. But why did you include the Nationals, they lost almost no matter what they did.
No they didn't. If they gave up 3 runs or less they won 75% of the time
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Also, other teams still had better records after giving up 3+ then the Braves. a lot better, even if they weren't over .500.
Yeah, the Yankees .404 winning percent was a lot better than the Braves' .256. The Yankees, if you didn't notice, had a beastly offense scoring 915 runs. The Braves scored 735.
Even with the Yankees scoring SO much, when they gave up 4+ runs they were likely to lose.
Just like the sabres in hockey a couple years ago. They could beat the good teams but the teams in the bottom of the league they would lose to. Atlanta lost too many one run games last year. especially to the scrubs
Just like the sabres in hockey a couple years ago. They could beat the good teams but the teams in the bottom of the league they would lose to. Atlanta lost too many one run games last year. especially to the scrubs
Atlanta was 27 - 25 in one run games last year.
Their pythag record (which estimates wins and losses based on runs scored and runs allowed) was 91 - 71.
The Phillies were 92 - 70 by pythag and the Marlins 82 - 80
Jason Heyward just became the 6th Brave to homer in his first at bat. Thanks Zambrano for starting something special.
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