Where can one even begin when discussing the 2025 Atlanta Braves offense? Just a couple years ago, many of the same players made up the components ofone of the most feared offenses in league history. Fast forward two seasons, and those same players find a different way to disappoint fans on pretty much a nightly basis.
How did we get here? Was it the 2023 NLDS that broke the Braves? Was it the loss of veteran coaches who went out west to help in Anaheim? Did players like Matt Olson and Austin Riley produce their 99th percentile type season in 2023, and the current version we’re left with is just simply who they are?
These are just many of the questions Braves fans are asking themselves on a nightly basis. Plenty of brilliant minds within the baseball world are simply befuddled at what the Atlanta Braves offense has become.
However, the one question everyone is desperate to answer still looms; how does Atlanta fix the offense?
Braves inability to produce clutch hits evident once again in series opening loss to Phillies
The series opening loss last night followed an unfortunate similar script to many other Braves losses thus far in 2025. Atlanta entered this series with their NL East foe hoping to build some momentum for the summer months. After their offensive performance last night, it’s hard to continue holding on to the optimistic outlook many of us had just two months ago.
Last night, we saw the same culprit that plagued the Braves when they begun the season 0-7…hitting with men on base. Atlanta stranded 10 runners on base last night, and failed to produce a single hit with men on base. They had baserunners in every inning except the ninth, yet they still couldn’t scratch across one run on the board.
Spencer Strider looked more like his past self in this outing, striking out seven and surrendering just one hit. Sadly, the one hit Strider gave up was an RBI double to Max Kepler. Stil one would expect an offense with Ronald Acuña Jr., Austin Riley, Matt Olson, and Marcell Ozuna all sitting at the top to at least find a way to give Strider at least one run of support.
Sadly it wasn’t meant to be, and that’s the way the 2025 season is beginning to feel for many of us. After the series-opening loss last night, the Braves fell to 9.5 games back of Philadelphia in the NL East standings. Unless Sal Licata is ready to proclaim the NL East race over, Atlanta is starting to feel dead in the water at this point.
The offense will continue to be the story of this season, for better or worse. Atlanta now has a lineup that should theoretically be good enough to win games with Ronald Acuña Jr. once again at the top of the order. It’s a matter of going out and doing it now. The offense has to turn this thing around, or there will be a lot tougher questions awaiting each of them at season’s end.
