Every Friday brings a brand new story concerning the excessive performances by big-league franchises, their greatest and worst seasons all through baseball’s Fashionable Period. Every installment focuses on two golf equipment, based mostly solely on alphabetical order.
However at the moment’s topics are linked by greater than their preliminary consonants. The Braves and Brewers each known as Milwaukee house throughout the period, which started in 1961. The Braves left Milwaukee for Atlanta after the 1965 season, then the Brewers arrived from Seattle in 1970 (after spending a single 12 months in Seattle because the Pilots.)
That’s to not say that the 2 franchises have loved related ranges of success. Removed from it.
The Braves have gained six Nationwide League pennants and a pair of world championships (1995 and 2021) within the Fashionable Period. The Brewers have made just one look in a World Sequence, approach again in 1982, and so they misplaced it.
Every membership’s greatest and worst seasons have been decided by my calculations of group scores (TS), that are plotted on an equalized 100-point scale. (Click here to learn about the TS formula.)
Finest 12 months for the Braves: The franchise gained its fourth world championship general — and its first in Atlanta — in 1995, the group’s thirtieth season in Georgia. The Braves ran away with the Nationwide League East by 21 video games, then breezed by means of the playoffs with 11 wins towards three losses. The group’s nice power was its pitching. Greg Maddux gained the Cy Younger Award with a 19-2 document and a 1.63 ERA. Fellow starter Tom Glavine went 16-7.
Worst 12 months for the Braves: Atlanta was horrible within the latter half of the Eighties, ending final or next-to-last in 5 successive seasons. The nadir was 1988’s 54-106 document, which left the Braves 39.5 video games out of first place within the NL West. Proper fielder Dale Murphy paced the group with 24 homers and 77 RBIs, and first baseman Gerald Perry batted a fair .300.
Finest 12 months for the Brewers: What else might it’s? The 12 months 1982 is mentioned reverently in Milwaukee, because it introduced the one league championship in franchise historical past. The Brewers squeezed previous Baltimore by a single recreation to win the American League East, edged the California Angels within the remaining recreation of the AL Championship Sequence, and at last misplaced to St. Louis in a seven-game World Sequence. Shortstop Robin Yount led the AL with 210 hits and gained the MVP trophy. Pitcher Pete Vuckovich’s 18-6 document earned him the Cy Younger Award.
Worst 12 months for the Brewers: Milwaukee misplaced 106 video games in 2002, simply the worst whole in franchise historical past. The membership completed 41 video games off the tempo within the Nationwide League Central. First baseman Richie Sexson drove house 102 runs. Ben Sheets posted the very best document on the pitching workers, with 11 victories towards 16 defeats.
Scroll right down to see the highest and backside 10 lists for each franchises between 1961 and 2022. You could find related rankings for all different golf equipment within the print version of Baseball’s Best (and Worst) 2023 Yearbook.
Every group is listed under with the 12 months in brackets, adopted by its regular-season win-loss document, its postseason outcomes (if any) in parentheses, its margin between runs scored and allowed per recreation, and its Fashionable Period percentile.
These are the abbreviations for postseason outcomes: P signifies {that a} membership made the playoffs, L that it gained a league championship, and W that it gained the World Sequence.
The Fashionable Period percentile is the share of all 1,656 golf equipment within the 1961-2022 span that the given group outperformed, based mostly on my TS comparisons.
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1. Braves [1995], 90-54 (WLP), plus-0.73 margin, 98.7% in period
2. Braves [1996], 96-66 (LP), plus-0.77 margin, 98.4% in period
3. Braves [1992], 98-64 (LP), plus-0.70 margin, 97.2% in period
4. Braves [1999], 103-59 (LP), plus-1.10 margin, 96.7% in period
5. Braves [1997], 101-61 (P), plus-1.30 margin, 96.6% in period
6. Braves [1998], 106-56 (P), plus-1.51 margin, 95.9% in period
7. Braves [1991], 94-68 (LP), plus-0.65 margin, 95.7% in period
8. Braves [2021], 88-73 (WLP), plus-0.83 margin, 93.3% in period
9. Braves [2003], 101-61 (P), plus-1.03 margin, 92.9% in period
10. Braves [1993], 104-58 (P), plus-1.28 margin, 92.4% in period
1. Braves [1988], 54-106, minus-1.16 margin, 1.3% in period
2. Braves [1977], 61-101, minus-1.34 margin, 2.5% in period
3. Braves [1990], 65-97, minus-0.86 margin, 5.0% in period
4. Braves [1978], 69-93, minus-0.93 margin, 7.7% in period
5. Braves [1989], 63-97, minus-0.60 margin, 8.0% in period
6. Braves [1985], 66-96, minus-0.92 margin, 8.5% in period
7. Braves [2015], 67-95, minus-1.15 margin, 9.0% in period
8. Braves [1975], 67-94, minus-0.97 margin, 9.7% in period
9. Braves [1979], 66-94, minus-0.59 margin, 11.4% in period
10. Braves [1987], 69-92, minus-0.51 margin, 16.0% in period
1. Brewers [1982], 95-67 (LP), plus-1.07 margin, 94.3% in period
2. Brewers [1992], 92-70, plus-0.84 margin, 88.9% in period
3. Brewers [2011], 96-66 (P), plus-0.51 margin, 88.0% in period
4. Brewers [1978], 93-69, plus-0.95 margin, 86.8% in period
5. Brewers [2018], 96-67 (P), plus-0.58 margin, 83.1% in period
6. Brewers [1979], 95-66, plus-0.53 margin, 79.5% in period
7. Brewers [2021], 95-67 (P), plus-0.71 margin, 78.9% in period
8. Brewers [1980], 86-76, plus-0.80 margin, 77.9% in period
9. Brewers [2008], 90-72 (P), plus-0.38 margin, 77.2% in period
10. Brewers [1987], 91-71, plus-0.28 margin, 76.5% in period
1. Brewers [2002], 56-106, minus-1.20 margin, 2.2% in period
2. Brewers [1984], 67-94, minus-0.58 margin, 9.1% in period
3. Brewers [2003], 68-94, minus-0.98 margin, 9.8% in period
4. Pilots [1969], 64-98, minus-0.98 margin, 10.8% in period
5. Brewers [1976], 66-95, minus-0.53 margin, 10.8% in period
6. Brewers [1972], 65-91, minus-0.65 margin, 14.1% in period
7. Brewers [1993], 69-93, minus-0.36 margin, 14.8% in period
8. Brewers [2001], 68-94, minus-0.41 margin, 15.5% in period
9. Brewers [1970], 65-97, minus-0.85 margin, 15.6% in period
10. Brewers [1985], 71-90, minus-0.70 margin, 16.6% in period
