The footage of Friday’s celebration — parade route going down Peachtree Street, meandering through The Battery ant into Truist Park — will eventually grow dated, the T-shirts will fade, but how we remember a Braves team that overcame all that this one did certainly won’t.
Atlanta figures to be contenders in 2022, 2023 and beyond with a young core, and given his stated preference to stay put, Freddie Freeman as the team’s foundation. This group may not be done, or as the last generation of stars showed us, another title isn’t guaranteed.
But free agents will move on, roles will change for some who stick around, and so will expectations.