⭐ Division Winner

1996 Atlanta Braves

96-66 • 0.593 Win% • 1st in NL E

📊 Season Record

96 Wins
66 Losses
0.593 Win %
1st Rank
773 R 648 RA
Diff +125

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⚡ Quick Stats

773 Runs Scored
648 Runs Allowed
+125 Run Diff
2,898K Attendance

📈 vs. 1996 NL Average

Batting Avg .269 3% above the 1996 league average (.262)
OBP .332 2% above the 1996 league average (.327)
SLG .374 8% above the 1996 league average (.348)
Team ERA 3.52 17% better than the 1996 league average (4.22)
Runs Scored 773 2% above the 1996 league average (759 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumAtlanta-Fulton County Stadium
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 2,898,806
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Avg per Game 35,787

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Dave Nilsson 0.331 2 Jeff Cirillo 0.325 3 David Justice 0.321 4 Kevin Seitzer 0.316 5 Chipper Jones 0.309

Home Runs

1 John Jaha 34 2 Ryan Klesko 34 3 Greg Vaughn 31 4 Chipper Jones 30 5 Fred McGriff 28

RBI

1 John Jaha 118 2 Chipper Jones 110 3 Fred McGriff 107 4 Jose Valentin 95 5 Greg Vaughn 95
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Marquis Grissom 158 671 106 207 0 0 23 74 41 73 28 0.308
Fred McGriff 159 617 81 182 0 0 28 107 68 116 7 0.295
Chipper Jones 157 598 114 185 0 0 30 110 87 88 14 0.309
Jeff Cirillo 158 566 101 184 0 0 15 83 58 69 4 0.325
Fernando Vina 140 554 94 157 0 0 7 46 38 35 16 0.283
Jose Valentin 154 552 90 143 0 0 24 95 66 145 17 0.259
John Jaha 148 543 108 163 0 0 34 118 85 118 3 0.300
Ryan Klesko 153 528 90 149 0 0 34 93 68 129 6 0.282
Mark Lemke 135 498 64 127 0 0 5 37 53 48 5 0.255
Kevin Seitzer 132 490 74 155 0 0 12 62 73 68 6 0.316
Javy Lopez 138 489 56 138 0 0 23 69 28 84 1 0.282
Dave Nilsson 123 453 81 150 0 0 17 84 57 68 2 0.331
Greg Vaughn 102 375 78 105 0 0 31 95 58 99 5 0.280
Matt Mieske 127 374 46 104 0 0 14 64 26 76 1 0.278
Pat Listach 87 317 51 76 0 0 1 33 36 51 25 0.240
Mike Matheny 106 313 31 64 0 0 8 46 14 80 3 0.204
Jermaine Dye 98 292 32 82 0 0 12 37 8 67 1 0.281
Jeff Blauser 83 265 48 65 0 0 10 35 40 54 6 0.245
Jesse Levis 104 233 27 55 0 0 1 21 38 15 0 0.236
Marc Newfield 49 179 21 55 0 0 7 31 11 26 0 0.307
Terry Pendleton 42 162 21 33 0 0 4 17 15 36 2 0.204
Eddie Perez 68 156 19 40 0 0 4 17 8 19 0 0.256
Mark Loretta 73 154 20 43 0 0 1 13 14 15 2 0.279
Dwight Smith 101 153 16 31 0 0 3 16 17 42 1 0.203
Rafael Belliard 87 142 9 24 0 0 0 3 2 22 3 0.169
David Justice 40 140 23 45 0 0 6 25 21 22 1 0.321
David Hulse 81 117 18 26 0 0 0 6 8 16 4 0.222
Mike Mordecai 66 108 12 26 0 0 2 8 9 24 1 0.241
Chuck Carr 27 106 18 29 0 0 1 11 6 21 5 0.274
Andruw Jones 31 106 11 23 0 0 5 13 7 29 3 0.217
Gerald Williams 26 92 6 19 0 0 0 4 4 18 3 0.207
Mark Whiten 36 90 12 23 0 0 3 17 16 25 2 0.256
Ed Giovanola 43 82 10 19 0 0 0 7 8 13 1 0.232
John Smoltz 35 78 3 17 0 0 1 12 3 26 0 0.218
Tom Glavine 39 76 8 22 0 0 0 3 5 17 0 0.289
Jeromy Burnitz 23 72 8 17 0 0 2 14 8 16 2 0.236
Greg Maddux 35 68 6 10 0 0 0 2 3 12 0 0.147
Turner Ward 43 67 7 12 0 0 2 10 13 17 3 0.179
Jerome Walton 37 47 9 16 0 0 1 4 5 10 0 0.340
Steve Avery 24 46 5 11 0 0 2 11 1 12 0 0.239
Tony Graffanino 22 46 7 8 0 0 0 2 4 13 0 0.174
Kevin Koslofski 25 42 5 9 0 0 0 6 4 12 0 0.214
Luis Polonia 22 31 3 13 0 0 0 2 1 3 1 0.419
Tyler Houston 33 27 3 6 0 0 1 8 1 9 0 0.222
Kelly Stinnett 14 26 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 11 0 0.077
Danny Bautista 17 20 1 3 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0.150
Jason Schmidt 13 19 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 0 0.000
Tim Unroe 14 16 5 3 0 0 0 0 4 5 0 0.188
Denny Neagle 6 14 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 0.143
Terrell Wade 44 13 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 7 0 0.154
Mike Bielecki 40 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0.100
Todd Dunn 6 10 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0.300
Brian Banks 4 7 2 4 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 0.571
Joe Ayrault 7 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.200
Brad Woodall 8 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.200
Danny Perez 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Wohlers 77 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Joe Borowski 22 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Brad Clontz 81 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0.000
Pablo Martinez 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.500
Pedro Borbon 43 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
Dean Hartgraves 20 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tom Thobe 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ricky Bones 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Marshall Boze 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Terry Burrows 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Cris Carpenter 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jeff D'Amico 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Cal Eldred 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mike Fetters 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bryce Florie 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ramon Garcia 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brian Givens 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Doug Jones 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Scott Karl 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Kiefer 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Graeme Lloyd 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kevin Lomon 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ben McDonald 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Greg McMichael 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jose Mercedes 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Angel Miranda 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mike Potts 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alberto Reyes 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Carl Schutz 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Steve Sparks 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tim Van Egmond 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ron Villone 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kevin Wickander 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bob Wickman 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Mike Bielecki 2.63 2 Greg Maddux 2.72 3 Pedro Borbon 2.75 4 Graeme Lloyd 2.82 5 John Smoltz 2.94

Wins

1 John Smoltz 24 2 Tom Glavine 15 3 Greg Maddux 15 4 Scott Karl 13 5 Ben McDonald 12

Strikeouts

1 John Smoltz 276 2 Tom Glavine 181 3 Greg Maddux 172 4 Ben McDonald 146 5 Scott Karl 121
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
John Smoltz 24 8 2.94 35 35 0 253.2 55 276
Greg Maddux 15 11 2.72 35 35 0 245.0 28 172
Tom Glavine 15 10 2.98 36 36 0 235.1 85 181
Ben McDonald 12 10 3.90 35 35 0 221.1 67 146
Scott Karl 13 9 4.86 32 32 0 207.1 72 121
Ricky Bones 7 14 5.83 32 23 0 145.0 62 59
Steve Avery 7 10 4.47 24 23 0 131.0 40 86
Angel Miranda 7 6 4.94 46 12 1 109.1 69 78
Steve Sparks 4 7 6.60 20 13 0 88.2 52 21
Greg McMichael 5 3 3.22 73 0 2 86.2 27 78
Jeff D'Amico 6 6 5.44 17 17 0 86.0 31 53
Cal Eldred 4 4 4.46 15 15 0 84.2 38 50
Brad Clontz 6 3 5.69 81 0 1 80.2 33 49
Mark Wohlers 2 4 3.03 77 0 39 77.1 21 100
Ramon Garcia 4 4 6.66 37 2 4 75.2 21 40
Mike Bielecki 4 3 2.63 40 5 2 75.1 33 71
Terrell Wade 5 0 2.97 44 8 1 69.2 47 79
Mike Fetters 3 3 3.38 61 0 32 61.1 26 53
Jason Schmidt 3 4 6.75 13 11 0 58.2 32 48
Tim Van Egmond 3 5 5.27 12 9 0 54.2 23 33
Graeme Lloyd 2 4 2.82 52 0 0 51.0 17 24
Mike Potts 1 2 7.15 24 0 1 45.1 30 21
Denny Neagle 2 3 5.59 6 6 0 38.2 14 18
Pedro Borbon 3 0 2.75 43 0 1 36.0 7 31
Marshall Boze 0 2 7.79 25 0 1 32.1 25 19
Doug Jones 5 0 3.41 24 0 1 31.2 13 34
Joe Borowski 2 4 4.85 22 0 0 26.0 13 15
Kevin Wickander 2 0 4.97 21 0 0 25.1 17 19
Ron Villone 0 0 3.28 23 0 2 24.2 18 19
Brad Woodall 2 2 7.32 8 3 0 19.2 4 20
Bryce Florie 0 1 6.63 15 0 0 19.0 13 12
Dean Hartgraves 1 0 4.34 20 0 0 18.2 7 14
Jose Mercedes 0 2 9.18 11 0 0 16.2 5 6
Bob Wickman 3 0 3.24 12 0 0 16.2 10 14
Brian Givens 1 3 12.86 4 4 0 14.0 7 10
Terry Burrows 2 0 2.84 8 0 0 12.2 10 5
Mark Kiefer 0 0 8.10 7 0 0 10.0 5 5
Cris Carpenter 0 0 7.56 8 0 0 8.1 2 2
Kevin Lomon 0 0 4.91 6 0 0 7.1 3 1
Tom Thobe 0 1 1.50 4 0 0 6.0 0 1
Alberto Reyes 1 0 7.94 5 0 0 5.2 2 2
Carl Schutz 0 0 2.70 3 0 0 3.1 2 5

🏆 Postseason Results

NL Championship
ATL def. SLN 4-3
NL Division Series
ATL def. LAN 3-0
World Series
Lost to NYA 4-2

👥 Roster (90)

Steve Avery Joe Ayrault Brian Banks Danny Bautista Rafael Belliard Mike Bielecki Jeff Blauser Ricky Bones Pedro Borbon Joe Borowski Marshall Boze Jeromy Burnitz +78 more

90 players

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