{"id":676924,"date":"2026-04-16T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:16:12","slug":"which-braves-player-has-surprised-you-the-most-through-mid-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676924\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Braves player has surprised you the most through mid-April?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Some time ago, we asked for feedback, and one bit of actionable feedback that I got was basically doing a check-in on player performance on a regular basis. My plan is to do that twice a month, and with the 15th of April now behind us, I\u2019ll try to get that up today or tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Before I do that, though, I\u2019ll throw this to you: we\u2019re about 12 percent of the way into the season. Which Braves player performance in that 12 percent stretch has surprised you the most?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There are a lot of justifiable choices! Bryce Elder has looked reinvented, except when he hasn\u2019t. Dominic Smith went from \u201cugh, I guess we have to start this guy because of a lack of better choices\u201d to an early-season hero whose outputs, even when exceedingly well-timed, are at least somewhat in line with his really good offensive inputs. Ozzie Albies looked moribund and had a hamate bone injury late, but has come out of the gates with good results, even if his inputs are still pretty sad. I\u2019ll stop here, but what ya got?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some time ago, we asked for feedback, and one bit of actionable feedback that I got was basically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,4720,18701,42963,58,4,1132,85768],"class_list":{"0":"post-676924","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-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-bryce-elder","14":"tag-dominic-smith","15":"tag-jackie-robinson-day","16":"tag-miami-marlins","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-ozzie-albies","19":"tag-player-performance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116414578970395763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676924","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=676924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}