Well, that’s a wrap on 2025. I don’t think anyone in Braves-land is really satisfied with this outcome, and as is clearly percolating (and has been for some time), the Braves are at a crossroads in the offseason, whether they admit it to themselves or not.
I’ve been watching since 2001, and I think this is probably the third-most-disappointing season. The worst was 2014, where the Braves not only bungled their own position, but then organizationally interpreted the bungling as some sort of broader context in which they decided to blow up the next three seasons as well by handing the keys to the kingdom to at least one charlatan. 2011 was brutal in a compressed sense, which is worse than being less-immediately-brutal over a longer period. And then there’s 2025, which in my mind is still the bill coming due for 2018. Now that the Braves have had their 2018 good fortune cancelled out on them, we can expect fewer shenanigans from the baseball gods going forward, right? Right? At least until the Braves get something improbably amazing in their favor again, anyway.
Anyway, what do you think? How disappointing was 2025 relative to other Braves seasons?
