Mike Soroka’s season is over, Ozzie Albies isn’t right and it’s the Marlins — the Marlins?!? — that are sitting atop the National League East through two weeks of the season.
It’s not all bad for the Braves, as Ronald Acuña Jr. is heating up, Nick Markakis made his return, Max Fried is tied for ninth in starter fWAR (0.6) and the bullpen is sixth in ERA (2.79) and ninth in K/9 (10.24), and Atlanta is going to need every one of those names to deliver, as the road to a third straight division title got that much more complicated with the ace of the pitching staff headed for surgery.