Top Braves executives agree that building a (much) better bullpen is their No. 1 offseason priority.
Understandable, consider Braves relievers finished 29th in the majors with a 4.69 ERA, after consistently ranking at or near the top in relief ERA in recent years. The beleaguered bullpen, coupled with a low-scoring offense and a young starting rotation, was a recipe for woe in 2015.
President of baseball operations John Hart said the next two priorities would be finding a way to boost the offense, and monitoring the health of injury-rehabbing starters Mike Minor, Mike Foltynewicz and Manny Banuelos in the first part of the offseason, in order to determine if they should add another proven veteran starter to a young rotation.