It certainly wasn’t the way anyone envisioned it happening, but the 2023 season is over for the Atlanta Braves

The 2023 Atlanta Braves put together one of the greatest regular seasons in franchise history and unfortunately, that isn’t going to be what is remembered most about this group. The Braves season ended in disappointing fashion Thursday night with a 3-1 loss. It is the second straight season that the Braves’ season ended in the Division Series in Philadelphia, a team that they finished 14 games ahead of in the standings.

“It’s one of those things where you’ve been with them for seven, seven and a half months,” Snitker said when asked about what he told the team after the loss. “Pretty much just told them they have nothing to hang their heads about. It stinks what just happened.”

“We wanted to go deep into this postseason, but I said it my first meeting every year, it’s like we want to check the first box, win the division because you never know what might happen. I told them how proud I was of them. What happened this year was phenomenal, a phenomenal year for our club. Didn’t end the way we wanted it to, but it doesn’t always do that in this game. But I said take a couple of months off and then we’re going to go back to North Port in the middle of February and gear up to do it again.”

Coming into the postseason, it was hard to imagine that a team that set numerous offensive records would ultimately be undone by a lack of offense and not its pitching staff. The Braves got a good enough performance from its starters and bullpen, but were simply unable to generate enough offense to give themselves a chance. The Braves entered the playoffs as the top overall seed and the team adjusted how it handled the week long break during the Wild Card round, but still ended up with the same result.

“That’s a good question,” Snitker said. “We thought we did everything possible during the delay, recreated things the best we could. We can do everything right and all that and you start a series, and you know what, your offense doesn’t get traction. I mean it could happen anytime. It happens in series, over the course of the summer.”

“I don’t know that we could have done anything any better or been more thorough in what we did with our time off to get us ready to play, other than the fact that when you’re doing that, the adrenaline and playing for something that’s not there. That’s a big deal. The players were unbelievable in how they handled it all, the energy, the focus that they had. Yeah, I don’t know that we can do it any better.”