{"id":678041,"date":"2026-06-01T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:05:11","slug":"who-was-your-braves-mvp-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678041\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was your Braves MVP for May?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that\u2019s another month in the books. It was a pretty good month; while the Braves didn\u2019t play at a league-best rate (hi Brewers<\/a>), they weren\u2019t far behind, either.<\/p>\n

If you had to pick one Brave as the standout, however defined, who would you pick? Some food for thought\u2026<\/p>\n

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While Mike Yastrzemski didn\u2019t have the most bombastic batting line, he did far and away lead the team in WPA. His resurgence was perhaps also emblematic of the season the Braves are having as a whole: next man up production-wise, with different heroes stepping up to delivery victory after victory. It\u2019s not that his context-neutral performance was anything to sneeze at, either, with a 170 wRC+ and 0.7 fWAR in just 66 PAs. But, in perhaps a fitting fashion for this season and not any other Braves season, he did it while massively outhitting his inputs: a .418 wOBA on a .338 xwOBA for the month.<\/p>\n

Robert Suarez<\/a> was almost entirely money, with a 6\/1 shutdown\/meltdown ratio in 12 appearances. Dylan Lee<\/a> had a similar ratio and actually a much better pitching line (Suarez\u2019 17\/85\/94 is actually kinda meh; Lee was a hilariously dominant 34\/42\/54), but Suarez did stuff like have four consecutive outings (and five of six) with 0.10 WPA or more and only entered in low leverage three times for the month.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chris Sale<\/a> was Chris Sale, with the most fWAR on the team for May (1.3). He made five starts, and though the Braves somehow lost two of them, he was dominant in every single one. Seriously, among his five starts, his worst ERA- was 88, his worst FIP- was 84, and his worst xFIP- was 70.<\/p>\n

Though they weren\u2019t around for the whole month, no one would blame you for going with Ronald Acu\u00f1a\u00a0Jr. or Drake Baldwin<\/a>, either. Both had 0.9 fWAR. Acu\u00f1a\u00a0had a 192 wRC+ with a .451 wOBA and .462 xwOBA, because that\u2019s what heroes do. Baldwin, well\u2026 .441 wOBA, .469 xwOBA, 185 wRC+. These guys were monsters. Get well soon, Drake Baldwin.<\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ve covered the likely picks here, but who ya got?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that\u2019s another month in the books. It was a pretty good month; while the Braves didn\u2019t play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,9893,90189,2319,18705,205731,40812,363,12944,9884,99],"class_list":["post-678041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-brewers","tag-chris-sale","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-dylan-lee","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}