The 2025 Main League Baseball season is thru its first week and there’s nonetheless one workforce that doesn’t have a win. That’s the Atlanta Braves who fell to 0-7 on Wednesday night time in a walk-off loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It’s a beautiful begin for a few causes.
For one, a workforce beginning a season 0-7 is extremely uncommon.
Second, the Braves have been probably the greatest groups in baseball over the previous seven years. They’ve made the postseason yearly throughout that stretch, together with successful a World Collection in 2021. On paper, this could nonetheless be a stable workforce.
Up to now, it has not been, and that goose egg by the primary week must be extraordinarily regarding primarily based on the historical past of different groups with comparable begins.
Through the Baseball-Reference StatHead database, the Braves are solely the twenty eighth workforce since 1901 to open a season with seven consecutive losses.
Of the earlier 27 groups, none of them made the playoffs.
Even worse, solely two of them (the 1983 Houston Astros and the 1980 Braves) have been in a position to rebound sufficient to complete with a successful report.
The 1983 Astros completed 85-77 whereas the 1980 Braves have been 81-80.
Not solely did the opposite groups all end with dropping data, they have been among the many worst groups in baseball historical past.
- 12 of the 25 groups with dropping data misplaced greater than 100 video games.
- That features 10 that misplaced greater than 103 video games.
- Included in that group are the 1962 New York Mets (120 losses) and the 2003 Detroit Tigers (119 losses), two of absolutely the worst groups to ever play within the Main Leagues.
- There have been 20 groups that misplaced at the least 90 video games.
If the Braves find yourself ending this season that poorly it would imply one thing has gone terribly improper with their roster. They won’t be pretty much as good as they’ve been lately, however it’s a great distance from constant 90-100 win seasons to becoming a member of that aforementioned group of dangerous groups.
However it’s at the least a great comparability to indicate {that a} dangerous begin generally is a signal of what is perhaps forward of 162 sport season.
The Braves are merely dealing with an extended highway again to competition this season. Particularly in a troublesome Nationwide League East with the Philadelphia Phillies and Mets. If you’re a Braves fan in search of one thing to be optimistic about, it’s most likely that the offense shouldn’t be as dangerous all season because it has been by the primary seven video games.
There are too many confirmed gamers with monitor data right here for it to proceed to be this dangerous. In addition they haven’t had a single sport from but from outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. as he works his manner again from one other knee damage, or beginning catcher Sean Murphy. Jurickson Profar also needs to return following his 80-game suspension.
There may be massive assist nonetheless on the way in which.
They’ve additionally performed two season-opening sequence towards two of the very best groups within the Nationwide League within the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers.
The issue goes to be if the Braves fall into too massive of a deficit by the point these gamers return for all of it to matter. Groups may not be capable of make the playoffs in April. They will actually put themselves ready the place they will miss them in April.
