Upton gone. Gattis gone. Heyward gone. The Braves will never score a run!
It hasn’t worked out that way, at least not through the first 51 games. Some among us figured there was little chance the offense could get any worse, no matter who left the team. Others figured it would indeed go from bad to historically, biblically awful.
The latter group so far has been wrong. The 2015 Bravos have scored 210 runs, or 4.1 a game, compared to 175, 3.4 a game, at this point last season. Today’s Braves are better than the NL average in runs and on base percentage and have struck out less than any other NL club.