The Atlanta Braves, statistically, have the best offense in Major League Baseball

The strength of this Atlanta Braves team, especially giving all the injuries they've had in the rotation, is hitting.

Atlanta's 57-28, sitting a cool eight games up in the National League East, and had three separate winning streaks of six or more games in the month of June.

Ronald Acuña Jr has already made history by being the only player in MLB to ever get to the All-Star Break with twenty homeruns, forty stolen bases, and fifty RBIs. He leads all of baseball in runs scored, with 78, and leads the National League in stolen bases (41), slugging (.598), OPS (1.014), and total bases (204).

But it's not just Acuña: The Braves have a stunning EIGHT All-Stars this year, including six position players. Catcher Sean Murphy and shortstop Orlando Arcia join Ronald Acuña Jr as starters, and the rest of the infield - 1B Matt Olson, 2B Ozzie Albies, and 3B Austin Riley are all on the team as well. (Pitchers Spencer Strider and Bryce Elder were also selected, but it's unknown whether or not they'll be able to pitch as they're tentatively lined up for starts against Tampa Bay in the series before the All-Star Break.)

The team as a whole leads MLB in homeruns, with 163. The next closest team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, is at 135. The gap between Atlanta and Los Angeles is the same as the gap between the Dodgers at #2 and the New York Mets at #8.

In OPS, the Braves are sitting at .837, twenty-four points better than the Texas Rangers at .803, for a team OPS+ of 121. (OPS+ is the OPS measure adjusted for the ballparks, to neutralize the impacts of playing in extreme pitcher or hitter friendly parks)

Here's the most mindblowing stat to me, one that encompasses just how deep this Atlanta Braves offense has been this season:

Every single position player currently on the roster that has played in a game has an OPS+ of 100 or better.

Sounds wild, I know, but here it is:

Whether they're everyday starters, like virtually your entire infield, co-starters (like catcher Travis d'Arnaud), or rotational guys like Kevin Pillar and Sam Hilliard in the outfield, every single player an opposing pitcher has to face is at least an league average hitter or better.

There's no break in this lineup, no easy portion to coast through, and with Ronald Acuña Jr leading off, you have to be locked in from the first pitch.

Good luck.

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