The Atlanta Braves Offensive Offense

The Atlanta Braves are really, really bad at doing anything that might lead to runs.

With the exception of Freddie Freeman, Mallex Smith, Ender Inciarte and the occasional flashback game from Nick Markakis, nobody in Atlanta’s everyday offense should really be involved in key plots. They are, to a man, a collection of has-been’s, never-were’s or not-ready’s and it shows on a nightly basis. Chase d’Arnaud is leading this team in fWAR, for God’s sake. Bad is not nearly a good enough descriptor.

But they could still work counts, and they absolutely did not Wednesday night. Albert Suarez, in his first MLB start, needed but eight pitches to dispatch Atlanta in the fifth inning, and the George…