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I just heard this tidbit on the radio:

The Atlanta Braves have hit one home run since opening day. That is in 19 games, not including tonight. They don't have a HR tonight yet either.

The Braves enter tonight 4-16, with the wort record in baseball. This could be a historically bad team.

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I just heard this tidbit on the radio:

The Atlanta Braves have hit one home run since opening day. That is in 19 games, not including tonight. They don't have a HR tonight yet either.

The Braves enter tonight 4-16, with the wort record in baseball. This could be a historically bad team.

And then, the let Bud Norris pitch.

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The Braves are on pace to hit 32 home runs, which would be the lowest total in MLB since 1950. Currently the low-power champs are the 1979 Houston Astros, who hit only 49 homers for the season and still finished 89-73--it was very hard to hit home runs in the Astrodome. The 1986 Cardinals hit only 58 home runs and finished out of the playoffs after Jack Clark was hurt. Since 1990, it looks like the lowest power team was the 1992 Dodgers, who hit 72 homers.

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I just heard this tidbit on the radio:

The Atlanta Braves have hit one home run since opening day. That is in 19 games, not including tonight. They don't have a HR tonight yet either.

The Braves enter tonight 4-16, with the wort record in baseball. This could be a historically bad team.

Radio was wrong.

http://m.braves.mlb.com/news/article/174968068/braves-homer-for-first-time-since-april-10

The home run snapped a streak of 15 games without a home run, going back to April 10 against the Cardinals. It was the longest stretch without a home run in team history since the Boston Braves were homerless in 16 games from Sept. 3-16, 1946. It was the longest by the Atlanta Braves since a 14-game drought in '70. Three home runs in the first 20 games were the fewest for the Braves in that span to start a season since the '31 team also had three, and it was the longest stretch by any team without a home run since the '91 Cardinals went homerless in 18 games.
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Through 22 games, the Atlanta Braves have a team OPS+ of 61. That's over an eighth of the season.

Their batters have a collective WAR of -2.7 according to BBR. Their above-replacement players are as such:

0.6 Nick Markakis

0.2 Ender Inciarte (DL)

0.2 Mallex Smith

That's it. Even Freddie Freeman is at replacement level (zero).

All this, and they're NOT last in baseball in runs/game (3.36). That honor belongs to division mate Philadelphia and their 73 team OPS+ and 3.27 R/G.

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