Atlanta Braves Morning Chop and Box Score: Freeman Distracted?

Ben Revere (2) is safe at first on a fielding error by Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman (5) during the third inning at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports

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At some point, you kinda have to ask:  is Freddie Freeman playing distracted?  Sunday was the second game on that road trip in which a Freeman error may have changed the overcome of the contest.

If this were an average fielder we were talking about, that would be one thing, but that hasn’t really been the case.  His error counts over the past 4 full seasons are 6 (2011), 12, 10, 5 (2014).  As of yesterday, he’s already at 3 with 1/9th of the season concluded… on pace for twenty-seven errors.

Regardless of whether this is a small sample situation or a mathematical anomaly, he’ll now have to go the next 144 games without making as many as 3 more errors to match the paces of 2013-14.

And let’s hope he does, for you don’t mind losing so much if you actually are beaten; it’s when you give away games that’s the problem.

Here’s the box score: