NL East: 2026 Spring training questions

For the first full week of PT TOMORROW coverage, we asked authors to focus on one specific question per team as spring training begins. 

 

Atlanta Braves

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except deathtaxes, and Spring Training injuries.

Benjamin Franklin, probably

 

Can the Braves overcome their extended injury curse and find adequate replacements this spring?

2025 wasn’t just frustrating for the Braves, their fans, and fantasy managers rostering their many star players. It was the kind of bewildering, alienating strangeness that, if he had been a baseball fan, might have inspired the existentialist Albert Camus to write a...

Almost!

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