The Braves rotation for 2024 has been described as one of the most potent in baseball. However, do you think this is actually the case? Spencer Strider is a bright spot, but Max Fried has a hard time staying healthy, Charlie Morton is aging. Chris Sale has question marks, and the fifth spot is uncertain. How do you assess the relative strength of the 2024 starting rotation?
FanGraphs currently has the Braves’ rotation projected as the best in baseball with 16.1 WAR. The Phillies are second at 15.5, followed closely by the Dodgers at 15.4. Sure, that number involves Spencer Strider and Max Fried doing a lot of the heavy lifting, but it’s important to remember that those projections right now only incorporate the Steamer system, and that always has a relatively low projection on Fried because a lot of his pitch metrics don’t jump off the page relative to how much success he’s had. So, Fried is projected right now to provide a lot of volume considering his injury-plagued 2023, but do so at a much worse clip than he’s pitched to, so it kinda-sorta balances out.
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