Are the Atlanta Braves (+1900) Worth a Flyer for the NL Pennant?

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00:00Is it over, Joe Ranieri? Tease before the break right here on the early line.

00:03Major League Baseball, National League.

00:04Like, we got some separators here.

00:06Like, we know the Mets are a good team.

00:07The Cubs are a good team.

00:08The Dodgers, the Phillies, the Giants making moves now with Raphael Devers.

00:11The Padres are waiting for them to wake up.

00:13Who's going to come out of the Central?

00:14Can the Brewers fight? Can the Reds fight?

00:16Are the Diamondbacks going to wake up?

00:18But, Joe, that's not the team I'm talking about.

00:2019-1 right now to win the pennant.

00:21That's those Atlanta Braves.

00:23Striders back.

00:24Ooh, finally had a good performance.

00:25Ronald Acuna has been sensational.

00:27They sit at 31-39 and got embarrassed yesterday by one of the worst teams in Major League Baseball.

00:32So, let me ask you this question.

00:34Still a long way to go.

00:36But you are what your record says you are.

00:3931-39.

00:40It looked like the Braves had it going for a little bit, right?

00:42Back over 500.

00:43Okay, now we found our level.

00:45They're just a bad baseball team right now.

00:47Are they redeemable with a legitimate chance to, one, make the playoffs and do some damage?

00:53Well, listen, currently, right now, they're not worth anything.

00:59And the bullpen has been absolutely suspect.

01:02You would hope that when Acuna got back that the offense would get a little more consistency.

01:08That hasn't happened.

01:10Now, Strider is still trying to work his way back in.

01:13He still doesn't have the kind of command he did.

01:16It's going to be a minute before that happens.

01:18There isn't a whole, like, when you're throwing out Grant Holmes every fourth or fifth game here, Donnie,

01:24to be your starting pitching, and it hasn't changed, you've got some issues here.

01:32And not even so much pitching, but this offense is about as inconsistent as I have seen.

01:38It's not clicking.

01:39And until it does, you can't take the Braves seriously at all.

01:44But they've also shown an ability during the trade deadline to go out and try and improve the team.

01:49So, you know, I would wait and see here with the Braves to this point.