Well, Truck Day has come and gone. Spring Training action, though, is still some weeks away. That gives us ample time to speculate: with an unsettled 2025 season, there’s all sorts of opportunity for the narrative to take hold while the games don’t matter.
My memory goes back to “Shuise Control” and the time Jared Shuster and Dylan Dodd dominated — only for that to be largely moot for the season as a whole. But there are probably lots of others that can be pulled from the annals of Grapefruit League history as far as the Braves are concerned.
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Anyway, what do you expect to dominate discussion in late February and March this year? Health or lack thereof from pitchers? Clarity, or fuzziness, on how Grant Holmes and Reynaldo Lopez fit into the pitching picture? Me? I want to see the bats do something in Spring Training that suggests they’re working on a new offensive approach — basically the opposite of last year’s Spring Training, where the bats were mostly just trying to get stuff over with as quickly as possible for whatever reason, with the added facet of using Spring Training as, well, training for what’s going to be put in place for the season offensively. Not sure how likely that is given last year in all sorts of respects, but it is what it is.
Have at it.