What (Maroth) did for me, over two years, personally, goes unmatched.”Įrstwhile set-up man Chris Martin felt that pain, too. “Everyone should experience failure,” says Minter, who finished with 18 strikeouts in 12 postseason innings and pitched in six of the Braves’ 11 victories. Minter, for one, says he would not be here without Class AAA pitching coach Mike Maroth keeping his head right. It was a true test of a pitcher’s resolve and also the organization’s brain power. Minter and Luke Jackson, Kyle Wright and Chris Martin all consuming crucial outs and holding the group together.Īll shared another trait: Veteran pitchers forced to swallow their pride and spend time at Class AAA Gwinnett this season. Yet in this World Series, with the staff terribly compromised, it was A.J. Matzek remains one of the game’s great reclamation stories. Yet after Morton went down, the group was carried by a pitching staff that tasted failure far too recently. Certainly, they have star power, from Freeman to Acuña to emerging slugger Austin Riley. Yet to give credit to yet another rock-star GM would be to miss the point of these Braves. “Alex did that and now we find ourselves World Series champions.” "It is knowing the people in your organization understand what it is we want to accomplish, what the prize is, what the purpose is – and that is to build a championship team, with players who have championship hearts,” says Hall of Fame GM John Schuerholz, architect of the Braves’ dynasty of the 1990s and their last championship club. WORLD SERIES MVP: Midseason addition Jorge Soler slugs his way to award While the Braves are quietly proud of their work in the analytics space, another department seems just as crucial – human resources.īRAVES WIN: Atlanta takes first World Series title since 1995 Joc Pederson carried them past Milwaukee in the NL Division Series. Another, Adam Duvall, slugged a Game 5 grand slam. One of them, outfielder Jorge Soler, seized the World Series MVP trophy in Game 6, clubbing a baseball 466 feet and over the Minute Maid Park train tracks – his third go-ahead home run of the Series. “And he bought the right people, that’s for damn sure.” “Alex went ahead and said ‘No, we’re not sellers, we’re buyers,” reliever Tyler Matzek said after finishing a dominant postseason with a two-inning, four-strikeout performance. But general manager Alex Anthopoulos is not wired that way, nor is the organization. So many franchises might have cashed it in. It ended with veteran horse Charlie Morton breaking his fibula in Game 1 of the World Series.Īnd in the middle of this manure sandwich was the great Ronald Acuña Jr.
Lest we forget, this season began with ace Mike Soroka re-injuring his Achilles’ heel and missing the season, a big reason the Braves were 41-44 and in fourth place on July 6. Yet this is four consecutive National League East titles for the Braves, proof that their organizational foundation and individual fortitude renders their relatively light win total an aberration.
WHO WON THE WORLD SERIES LAST YEAR FULL
They won just 88 games, and only the 2006 Cardinals (83 wins), 2000 Yankees (87) and 1987 Twins (85) won fewer games and a World Series title over a full season in the divisional era. No, we won’t be confusing these Braves with the ’27 Yankees or the ’98 Yankees or even the ’18 Red Sox. Tuesday night, he added another one – 2021 World Series champions, and there’s no asterisks for how hard it was nor how doubtful it looked for so much of the summer. “I’m going to give it to Brian,” first baseman and franchise anchor Freddie Freeman said of the baseball he cradled for the final out of Game 6, then tucked it in his back pocket, safe from the celebratory fray. As Tuesday night turned to Wednesday morning at Minute Maid Park, Snitker, in his 47th year in the organization, but just his sixth at the helm of the big club had a special gift on its way.
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