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Braves fire Fredi Gonzalez amid one of the worst starts in MLB history
- Updated: May 17, 2016
1:39 PM ET
The Atlanta Braves were one of the best teams in Major League Baseball in Fredi Gonzalez’s first three seasons as their manager. They won 279 games from 2011 to 2013, trailing the Texas Rangers by one win for most in baseball.
Then in 2014 the Braves fell below .500 for just the third time since 1991. They then lost 95 games in 2015, their most since a 97-loss season in 1990, and their 9-28 start this season is worse than that of the 1962 New York Mets, who went 12-25 in their first 37 games on their way to a modern-era-record 120 losses.
On Tuesday, Gonzalez was fired in the Braves’ final season at Turner Field.
How bad did things get?
On top of starting worse than the ’62 Mets, the Braves’ 28 losses this season are tied for the franchise’s most through 37 games. The 1911 Boston Rustlers also started …
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