Bryce Harper hit his ninth home run of the 2016 season on Sunday. The Atlanta Braves, combined, have three. Bryce Harper has three times more home runs than the Atlanta Braves this season. The Braves’ number of homers is the square root of Bryce Harper’s number of homers.

There are a lot of ways of putting this: The Braves are lousy. No one expected they’d be good this season, a rebuilding year by all accounts, but probably no one expected they’d start out quite this bad. No Brave has hit a homer since Drew Stubbs smacked one off Adam Wainwright in the fourth inning of a game on April 10, meaning the Braves have gone over 500 consecutive at-bats without a home run.

Through Sunday’s play, 45 Major Leaguers have four or more homers, meaning 45 Major Leaguers have more home runs than the Atlanta Braves.

The good news for the Braves is they can’t possibly be this bad, because they’ve still got a bunch of capable big-league hitters despite the rebuilding phase. Freddie Freeman’s just not going to hit .179 with a .569 OPS for very long. The Braven’s aren’t about to storm to the top of the NL East anytime soon, but their extreme early season struggles represent the trappings of some bad luck, bad timing and a small sample.

But if by some chance Atlanta could keep up this horrendous offensive pace — and, again, it definitely won’t — the Braves would finish the season with 27 total home runs. That would represent the lowest total since 1945, when the Chicago White Sox hit only 22 homers in 149 games. The Braves’ .593 OPS would be the worst of any team since the Texas Rangers — under manager Ted Williams, of all people — finished the 1972 season with a .581 mark.