Quote Originally Posted by Commercecomet24 View Post
In all my years of follwing baseball I've never seen a team have this many injuries, I doubt there was any other team that could've survived what the Braves did this year and make the playoffs. Credit to their culture that they never panicked or wavered and kept fighting. Probably be a short run in the playoffs but i wouldn't put anything past this group. Would be a heckuva story if they somehow won it all.
I always criticized Bobby Cox for his decision making. But, the thing that set him above so many others was the culture he created within the organization (along with Shurholtz). That was undeniable.
HOF players would run thru brick walls for the guy. Snit makes a lot of the same type of questionable decisions, but like Bobby, he's built an undeniable culture that wins.

I saw a stat last night - Since Division play began, the Braves have been to the Postseason 26 of 55 seasons. That's second only to the Yankees.
They had made 2 prior to 1991. So between Cox and Snit (and a bit of Fredi) that's 24 postseasons in 33 years.
Another incredible stat - of those 24 postseason, only 3 have been achieved by being a Wild Card. So they aren't getting in by the skin of their teeth.

Yeah, I'd love to have more than 2 World Series titles. But, I grew up with 1970s and 1980s Braves teams. The first team I really remember was the '77 Braves, where my man Gary Mathews and Jeff Burroughs lead us to a 60-101 record. The Braves were so bad Turner fired Dave Bristol and managed a loss himself. We watched a young Dale Murphy, who hit ok, but was a horrible catcher - and thought "this is our next star??". MSU fans this year would have tarred and feathered Murph for his 6 errors in 17 games; .954 fielding %, with 5 passed balls, and 20 SB allowed with only 5 CS. I'll take those 2 WS over that any day!