I don\u2019t mean, Michael Soroka\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel. Just, you know, in general.<\/p>\n
The set of questions we received for February included, \u201cWhat weakness will doom the team if nothing changes?\u201d \u2014 but I twisted it around a bit. I have an answer to the former, and it\u2019s also the answer to this question, but \u201cdoom the team\u201d seems overly deterministic. The idea of an Achilles\u2019 heel is a point of weakness on a totality of strength; teams overcome weaknesses all the time, if only because no team is perfect and many really good teams have flaws that end up not mattering much.<\/p>\n
So, I guess that\u2019s what I\u2019ve twisted this question into: what\u2019s going to be the weakness that drags this team down?<\/p>\n
You could say, \u201cStarting pitching\u201d based solely on the Braves not making any rotation additions that required shelling out real resources. Or based on the fact that essentially all of their starters have a lot of injury uncertainty. Hell, \u201cpropensity to get everyone injured\u201d could be the proverbial heel in and of itself. It\u2019s up to you.<\/p>\n
For me, I don\u2019t know if this is still going to exist, much less be the team\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel, but I\u2019d go with \u201csticking with any semblance of the 2025 vis-a-vis 2019-2024 offensive approach\u201d to the extent it transpires. I don\u2019t know if they are going to do it, but Tim Hyers is still there, and adding the guys they added offensively doesn\u2019t help me read a hard \u201cno\u201d into \u201care they gonna do it again?\u201d Mike Yastrzemski and Ha-Seong Kim are neither prototypical 2019-2024 Braves hitters, nor do they look like guys that can be moved much in that direction. For Kim, you can say that there really weren\u2019t many other choices, but Mauricio Dubon is the polar opposite of the previous offensive approach, and he was also deliberately acquired, like Yastrzemski. The team probably can\u2019t afford another protracted Michael Harris II and Ozzie Albies offensive disaster unless it gets a really clean bill of health elsewhere, so we\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t mean, Michael Soroka\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel. Just, you know, in general. The set of questions we received…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73299,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-556642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-discussion","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116020052311229807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}