How far can these Braves go?

Cap is NLCS unless something changes with pitching, both starting rotation and pen

we arent going to score 5+ every game, especially against the Dodgers staff

I can see a run as far as the NLCS.

Unless something really screwy happens, we shouldn't have to face LA in the NLDS. They will play the Wild Card team. We will play the NL Central champ.

Every good team in the NL has the same ceiling - the NLCS.

The Dodgers are just too damn good.

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but their pitching rotation is the best in the MLB, and Ryu is likely on his way to a Cy Young:

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this here is the problem. it's not our offense going up against their offense, it's our offense going up against their stacked pitching staff while their offense goes up against our roll-the-dice pitching staff.

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I say we trade Ender for deGrom and Duvall for Scherzer, then we’d be set

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Completely fair trade IMO, Mets and Nats would be FOOLS to pass that kind of deal up.

NLCS

Our pitching is still holding us back. When we face good pitchers as the Braves did last night against the Phillies. Our bats were shut down. Good pitching stops good hitting.

With our bullpen, and our manager, the furthest we go is the NLCS.

Outside the Dodgers and Nationals, maybe Reds if they can somehow end up in it, everyone else in contention for the postseason in the NL has their fair share of pitching issues, and even the Dodgers have middle relief problems.

It’s just not a good year for pitching period. If things stay mostly the same, the Braves have a good shot at winning the NLDS. Unlike going up against the Dodgers, the Cubs or Brewers (as the most likely 2 to come out of the Central) are actually pretty good matchups for this team. Two of the best Cubs starters are lefty (I know that hasn’t meant much with Lester however, even though the Braves went 1-1 vs him this year) and the Brewers don’t really have knock your socks off SP outside of Woodruff at times and Hader can’t pitch 3-5 innings each game.

Basically as a tl;dr, the gap just widened between the Dodgers and everyone else in the NL this year. They’re arguably two head and shoulders above the Braves (who are likely #2 in the NL), and there might well be a slight gap between the Braves and the rest of the NL as well.

If we can find a decent closer, one more starter, and Folty and/or Gausman get their shite together and take bullpen roles, we can win it all. Probably to many ifs though.