Photo by Ralph Freso/Getty ImagesWho’s going to be in the Atlanta Braves bullpen come Opening Day 2019? I have no idea! But, I now have a better idea of who’s not going to be on it...
At first glance, this might seem like a bit of an odd choice. The Braves stuck with Sam Freeman through all of 2018, a year in which circumstances led to him posting a goose-egged 0.0 RA9-WAR and a team-worst -1.21 WPA. Of course, that was all mostly context, as Freeman’s 0.3 fWAR, 91 FIP-, and 94 xFIP- on the year placed him pretty much in “generic relief human” territory. Even after he spent about three weeks on the shelf with shoulder inflammation, the Braves brought him back and continued to use him through…
