Atlanta Braves: Early Challenges in the MLB Season

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00:00Atlanta entered with a second best price to win the NL pennant and has not been there for the

00:04Braves we'll talk about them in just a moment in fact we'll talk about them right here right now

00:1093 and a half the opening day win total for Atlanta a 5 in 13 record after losing the rubber

00:17match in Toronto yesterday against the Jays a minus 400 price DRS to make the playoffs now it's

00:24minus 128 they were the favorites to win the National League East ever so slightly in front

00:29of the Mets and the Phillies not any longer at plus 320 and again it was that second best price

00:35to win the pennant behind the very short number that the Dodgers had well now the Braves are behind

00:39both the Mets and the Phillies in those pennant numbers how do you feel about Atlanta it's early

00:45it's only 18 games of 162 do you think there is a rally coming for the Braves or is it getting late

00:52very early in this MLB season no there's a rally coming from them they got a good front office and

00:57also you're mainly basing everything these hitters just can't forget about hitting on a year to your

01:02basis like oh they were really good the past couple years now they stink they'll come around here but

01:05you are worried about the injuries like Ozuna's hip to see how that turns out but there is help on

01:09the way Ron Acuna Jr is one of the best players in Major League Baseball and if he was healthy last

01:13year and this year probably won two or three in the MVP odds market that's how essential he is to

01:18starting and being that jump starter early in that lineup and everybody else can certainly feed off of

01:23that but you don't want to dig yourself a grave this early in the season but it's not really that

01:27bad like the Mets are 11 and 7 lost two straight games the Phillies floundering around four and six

01:32in their last 10 games so there's six games back which is a lot of games to sort of even climb out

01:37because you're going over everybody the Nationals the Marlins the Phillies and the Mets but you just

01:41need a two or three game win streak here to sort of settle everybody down but that was important

01:45that series in Toronto it's like you actually got Schwellenbach on the mound and also

01:49Schreider and we didn't come away with any victories out of that it wasn't the pitchers

01:53per se outside of Schwellenbach did have a good start Schreider gave you good enough start to

01:56win that game and nobody showed up