It’s easy, perhaps too easy, to trash the Atlanta Braves a mere six games into a 162-game schedule.
Sure, they’ve won only one of those starts and no team in either the American or National League has won fewer.
There’s also their negative run differential (-12), which is surpassed in ineptness only by the San Diego Padres’ negative 17.
Beyond that, those 18 total runs they’ve scored are the fewest in all of baseball, and only four NL teams have surrendered more than the Braves’ 30 runs to date.
And if you’re wondering how bad it would have to get before rumblings begin to surface about the job security of manager Brian Snitker, it was mid-May of a year ago that the club canned Fredi Gonzalez after a 9-28 start. If you want to extend this 1-5 beginning to 37 games, you’d basically be looking at 7-30 on the high side.