The Braves are about to score the 100,000th run in franchise history, becoming the second MLB franchise to do (following the Cubs who got there in July 2019). Entering the 2021 season, the Braves had scored 99,305 (FanGraphs) or...
Read MoreStreaks: Do They Matter? Does a string of losses keep you from having a good team? The somewhat indifferent start of the Braves this season, a quarter of a season of 0.500 ball (or so), concerns folks, and not without...
Read MoreAfter the Swanson Miracle Homer, I posted a list of the top single-game WPA performances in Braves history. Dansby’s walk-off homer had a WPA (WPA, or Win Probability Added, is the winning probability after you come to the plate...
Read MoreAs has been pointed out, any player can get hot (or cold) for a 60 game stretch. Here’s a quick note to suggest just how hot or cold a . I took the main 14 Braves position players and calculated their maximum and...
Read MoreIf you have missed all 5 pieces in “The Playoffs are a Crapshoot” well…tough! You should’ve been reading Braves Journal more, ya twit! Nah, just joshing. Here are the links to the first 5 parts: Playoffs...
Read MoreIn case you missed the first 4 parts of “Playoffs are a Crapshoot”, here they are: Playoffs are a Crapshoot, Part 1Playoffs are a Crapshoot, Part 2Playoffs are a Crapshoot, Part 3Playoffs are a Crapshoot Part 4 Last year the...
Read MoreIn case you missed the first 3 parts of “Playoffs are a Crapshoot”, here they are: Playoffs are a Crapshoot, Part 1Playoffs are a Crapshoot, Part 2Playoffs are a Crapshoot, Part 3 In the previous installment, we...
Read MoreBefore we get to Jonathan F’s brilliance, Playoffs are a Crapshoot Part 3, Here are Notes from Matt L: Last night, we successfully migrated BravesJournal to a new host. This officially gives Ryan and the community full...
Read MoreIf you missed the first piece in “Playoffs are a Crapshoot”, it provided a basic overview of what will be discussed and you can find it here. There are 10 teams that make the playoffs every year, six division winners...
Read MoreIt was Billy Beane in Moneyball who famously remarked, “The playoffs are a crapshoot”. The argument goes that whatever assiduousness and craft goes into producing a winning regular season team, the outcome of...
Read MoreThere’s been speculation here at several points about whether the Braves 2018 edition is streaky. The main reason we might want an answer to that question is the supposition that a streaky team will have trouble when they get...
Read MoreWith 40 games in the hopper, this seems like a convenient time to take a closer look at how the Braves’ offense is stacking up against its NL peers (all numbers through 5/15). Braves OPS by position (w/NL rank): C —...
Read MoreI started this little excursion to try and figure out why baseball has such a small home field advantage. I had a theory that I could explain it through baseball’s differential travel behavior. That hypothesis failed pretty...
Read MoreNote from Alex: The previous piece in this series, Part 3, was pre-empted by rumors about the Upton trade within hours of publication. I’m linking to it here, so that you can go back and read it. I started this series...
Read MoreSo… if travel doesn’t seem to do much, what about teams? Once we go to teams, we can no longer just look at home and road winning percentages, since those will depend greatly on how good the team was. Instead, we now...
Read MoreSo what does the home field advantage in baseball look like? In my database of almost exactly 200,000 baseball games which didn’t end in ties, the home team won 54.7 percent. But road teams did really badly in the early days of...
Read MoreSo some colleagues were discussing PEDs and the HOF, a topic which really doesn’t interest me much at all. (I say let ‘em in.) The inevitable amphetamine argument was broached, you know, Mantle used greenies, what’s the...
Read MoreAlex has asked me to do something that scares me a little bit. So I’m going to try it. I am troubled by the size of the home field advantage in baseball — it seems way too small. So I’m going to do a study, but...
Read MoreNot a big year for players seeking big round numbers or moving up career lists. Of course, the Braves are a very young team now. Chipper’s pretty much settled his spot on the Braves leaderboards — second all-time in...
Read MoreOkay, make your projections/guesses for player numbers in 2011 here. We will then look back and laugh at you at the end of the season. Here are mine: Dan Uggla: .265/.350/.530 Chipper Jones: 110 G, .280/.420/.420 Jason Heyward:...
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