Regarding the former romance between Ronald Acuña Jr. and Freddie Freeman, Jeff Francoeuer has a fiery opinion.
2023 was especially grueling for the Braves and their fans. They finished the season with 104 wins — easily the best mark in Major League Baseball — led by one of the greatest offenses of all time. Then the postseason came around, and the bats went silent as their division rival advanced to the NLCS after beating the Braves three games to one for the second consecutive season.
Baseball is a game full of randomness. For the Braves to win the division title once and fall to a team that was significantly worse than them in the regular season, it can be viewed as an anomaly. But when it happens twice in almost the exact same fashion, that is no coincidence.
There’s been something missing with the Braves over the last couple of years that wasn’t in 2021 when the team won the World Series in six games over the Astros. That much is clear, but identifying the missing piece of the puzzle is the more challenging aspect.
A number of factors could be pointed at, but one that has been stated on numerous instances by players on the team and people around the organization is the lack of fire in the clubhouse, or that “F-U attitude,” as A.J. Minter described it when talking about what Chris Sale is going to bring to the Braves clubhouse.
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