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Atlanta Braves Starting Pitchers: A Bottlenecking Problem

During the rebuild, the Braves chose a path and stuck to their “guns”, as trade after trade, and draft pick after draft pick, starting pitchers with high ceilings were collected. For many Braves fans, it became comical the amount of gathered riches over a 3 year period, and some openly questioned the strategy as pitchers are seemingly more volatile to develop into big leaguers, hence the heavily used acronym in these parts, TNSTAAPP, pops up at least 7-8 times a year.

However, now that the rebuild is over, there’s a problem. And many times when those words are remarked, “there’s a problem”, they’re immediately followed by “a good problem, though”, but I’m not sure that is the case this time.