Following yet another series loss for the Braves on Sunday, Spencer Strider didn’t hold back his thoughts on the club’s performance through the first four months of the season.
“It’s embarrassing,” Strider said, via Mark Bowman of MLB.com. “It feels like we’ve had a million opportunities to make adjustments and get headed in the right direction that we think we’re capable of, nobody more so than myself, and we just haven’t been able to do it.”
Embarrassing is the perfect word to describe the 2025 Atlanta Braves. Sure, there have been worse teams in franchise history, but not by much. The 2015 Braves, who were smack-dab in the middle of a rebuild, actually were two games better at this point than the 2025 Braves. That team had no expectations and went on to lose a whopping 95 games.
To think that a club that has dominated the division for three straight decades, been to the postseason seven straight times, features 11 players that have been named All-Stars in the last five years, and came into the season with the second-best odds to win the World Series could be this horrendous is almost unexplainable.
The 2025 Braves haven’t had a win streak longer than four games all season. Meanwhile, they’ve had two separate seven-game losing streaks and have managed to win just one of their last nine series. That’s hard to do unless you’re one of the worst teams in the league, and that’s exactly who Atlanta has been since the opening bell.
The Braves own the fourth-worst record in the National League. They are four games worse than the Miami Marlins, and at this rate, they might only finish ahead of the lowly Colorado Rockies at season’s end, who are the worst team in MLB history.
Calling this team the most disappointing in franchise history is not enough. This club has been an embarrassment, a black stain on an organization that’s been at the top of the National League for most of the last three decades. Everyone, from ownership to the players, is responsible, and while the future might not be as bleak as the performance on the field this year, it will take a total group effort for the standard to start being met again in Atlanta.
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