Post by Mike
*** Updated *** After Wednesday's 7-1 romp over the Nats and Scherzer the RDIFF has increased to +22. Impressive. ***
To answer the question... none. We haven't even been playing a full week, and it was a week that included nutty pitching management by the Phillies and beat down of the Nats 5th starter. However, as I posted in February... my optimism is renewed because the Braves are focusing on RDIFF... run differential.
Last season the team finished with a -89 RDIFF.
Last season the top five NL finishers had RDIFF that looked like this:
Division winners -
Dodgers +190
Nationals +147
Cubs +127
Wild cards -
Diamondbacks +153
Rockies +67
The Brewers (+35) and Cardinals (+56) were the only other NL teams to have a plus side RDIFF.
So this early sample is encouraging:
Notice runs scored -
*** Updated *** After Wednesday's 7-1 romp over the Nats and Scherzer the RDIFF has increased to +22. Impressive. ***
To answer the question... none. We haven't even been playing a full week, and it was a week that included nutty pitching management by the Phillies and beat down of the Nats 5th starter. However, as I posted in February... my optimism is renewed because the Braves are focusing on RDIFF... run differential.
Last season the team finished with a -89 RDIFF.
Last season the top five NL finishers had RDIFF that looked like this:
Division winners -
Dodgers +190
Nationals +147
Cubs +127
Wild cards -
Diamondbacks +153
Rockies +67
The Brewers (+35) and Cardinals (+56) were the only other NL teams to have a plus side RDIFF.
So this early sample is encouraging:
Notice runs scored -
Then compare to runs allowed -
Now I'm no rocket surgeon, but a +16 RDIFF after 5 games seems like a good thing to me.
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