I remember Bob Horner for the Braves hitting 4 hrs in a single game one time.
They have gone almost 600 at bats without a homer.
So the Braves have collectively the same power numbers in their last 600 abs like a guy like Vince Coleman .
They have gone almost 600 at bats without a homer.
So the Braves have collectively the same power numbers in their last 600 abs like a guy like Vince Coleman .
And only 1 homer since the 4th inning of opening day.
Bryce Harper hit his ninth home run of the 2016 season on Sunday. The Atlanta Braves, combined, have three. Bryce Harper has three times more home runs than the Atlanta Braves this season. The Braves’ number of homers is the square root of Bryce Harper’s number of homers.
There are a lot of ways of putting this: The Braves are lousy. No one expected they’d be good this season, a rebuilding year by all accounts, but probably no one expected they’d start out quite this bad. No Brave has hit a homer since Drew Stubbs smacked one off Adam Wainwright in the fourth inning of a game on April 10, meaning the Braves have gone over 500 consecutive at-bats without a home run.
Through Sunday’s play, 45 Major Leaguers have four or more homers, meaning 45 Major Leaguers have more home runs than the Atlanta Braves.
They’re not terrible good on defense, either. (PHOTO: Jason Getz/USA TODAY Sports Images)
The good news for the Braves is they can’t possibly be this bad, because they’ve still got a bunch of capable big-league hitters despite the rebuilding phase. Freddie Freeman’s just not going to hit .179 with a .569 OPS for very long. The Braven’s aren’t about to storm to the top of the NL East anytime soon, but their extreme early season struggles represent the trappings of some bad luck, bad timing and a small sample.
But if by some chance Atlanta could keep up this horrendous offensive pace — and, again, it definitely won’t — the Braves would finish the season with 27 total home runs. That would represent the lowest total since 1945, when the Chicago White Sox hit only 22 homers in 149 games. The Braves’ .593 OPS would be the worst of any team since the Texas Rangers — under manager Ted Williams, of all people — finished the 1972 season with a .581 mark.
There are a lot of ways of putting this: The Braves are lousy. No one expected they’d be good this season, a rebuilding year by all accounts, but probably no one expected they’d start out quite this bad. No Brave has hit a homer since Drew Stubbs smacked one off Adam Wainwright in the fourth inning of a game on April 10, meaning the Braves have gone over 500 consecutive at-bats without a home run.
Through Sunday’s play, 45 Major Leaguers have four or more homers, meaning 45 Major Leaguers have more home runs than the Atlanta Braves.
The good news for the Braves is they can’t possibly be this bad, because they’ve still got a bunch of capable big-league hitters despite the rebuilding phase. Freddie Freeman’s just not going to hit .179 with a .569 OPS for very long. The Braven’s aren’t about to storm to the top of the NL East anytime soon, but their extreme early season struggles represent the trappings of some bad luck, bad timing and a small sample.
But if by some chance Atlanta could keep up this horrendous offensive pace — and, again, it definitely won’t — the Braves would finish the season with 27 total home runs. That would represent the lowest total since 1945, when the Chicago White Sox hit only 22 homers in 149 games. The Braves’ .593 OPS would be the worst of any team since the Texas Rangers — under manager Ted Williams, of all people — finished the 1972 season with a .581 mark.
[COLOR=#284E36 !important]<header>[h=1]It's been two weeks since the Braves last hit a home run[/h]By Dayn Perry / Baseball Writer
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<figcaption style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(88, 87, 87); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1em;">Pictured above: The Braves, not hitting a home run. (USATSI)</figcaption>The Braves lost to Mets on Sunday by a score of 3-2. Coming into the 2016 season, the Braves expected to be very bad, and their most recent defeat puts them on pace for 126 losses in 2016. They will not lose that many games, very probably, but they will indeed be lousy.
On the general subject of Braves lousiness in the current season, there's this: The Braves have three home runs. Three. Three home runs in 18 games. Three, people. They have not homered since April 10, when Drew Stubbs went deep off Adam Wainwright. That means they've gone, as a team, 517 at-bats without hitting a home run.
The Braves are, as you would expect, last in the majors in home runs. In 29th place are the Marlins. They have three times as many home runs as the Braves do. At this writing, 45 individual players have more home runs than the Braves do, and 78 individual players have as many or more home runs than the Braves do.
Their work to date -- such as it is -- puts the Braves on target for 27 home runs this season. That's a remarkable non-feat, especially in an era of increasing home run rates. The last team to hit 27 or fewer homers in a season? That woud be the 1945 Washington Senators, who did so across a 154-game slate.
People, the 2016 Braves are terrible. People, the 2016 Braves are acutely terrible at hitting home runs.
<time class="storyDate fontProximaNovaReg" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 10px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">April 24, 2016 03:53 PM ET</time>
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<figcaption style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(88, 87, 87); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1em;">Pictured above: The Braves, not hitting a home run. (USATSI)</figcaption>The Braves lost to Mets on Sunday by a score of 3-2. Coming into the 2016 season, the Braves expected to be very bad, and their most recent defeat puts them on pace for 126 losses in 2016. They will not lose that many games, very probably, but they will indeed be lousy.
On the general subject of Braves lousiness in the current season, there's this: The Braves have three home runs. Three. Three home runs in 18 games. Three, people. They have not homered since April 10, when Drew Stubbs went deep off Adam Wainwright. That means they've gone, as a team, 517 at-bats without hitting a home run.
The Braves are, as you would expect, last in the majors in home runs. In 29th place are the Marlins. They have three times as many home runs as the Braves do. At this writing, 45 individual players have more home runs than the Braves do, and 78 individual players have as many or more home runs than the Braves do.
Their work to date -- such as it is -- puts the Braves on target for 27 home runs this season. That's a remarkable non-feat, especially in an era of increasing home run rates. The last team to hit 27 or fewer homers in a season? That woud be the 1945 Washington Senators, who did so across a 154-game slate.
People, the 2016 Braves are terrible. People, the 2016 Braves are acutely terrible at hitting home runs.
The Braves (4-16) have hit only three homers, easily the fewest in the majors. Entering Tuesday's games, every other team in the majors had at least 12.
The 1975 California Angels are the only other team in the expansion era — since 1961 — to have hit as few as three home runs while playing 20 or more games in April, according to STATS.
The 1975 California Angels are the only other team in the expansion era — since 1961 — to have hit as few as three home runs while playing 20 or more games in April, according to STATS.
