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In The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver looked at several different fields of prediction to illustrate both the power and the limits of trying to peer into the future. Some fields, like meteorology, have progressed to the point where you can know with reasonable accuracy what the weather in your town will be like [...]
Perhaps a more accurate title of this post would be “Should The Braves Pay Brian McCann?” There’s not much more to be said about Brian McCann that you don’t already know. From 2006- 2011, you could pencil him into the All-Star game and the middle of the Braves’ lineup. You could expect an OPS in [...]
A few days ago, I previewed the likely top five in the Braves’ starting rotation on Opening Day. Here are other starting pitchers who could see action later in the year: Brandon Beachy Stats: 81 IP, 5-5, 2.00 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 68 K From Opening Day, Brandon Beachy bettered his fantastic rookie campaign by pitching [...]
There are very few questions for the Braves faithful in terms of the starting pitching. The Braves entered spring training with really only one question: who was going to be the fifth starter? Over the course of the season, tons of questions would arise, and by July what the 2013 rotation would look like was [...]
I have started this thing like, seven times. Seven different opens. Seven different ledes. Seven different attempts to drop into a rational discussion of how the Atlanta Braves should go about replacing Chipper Jones at 3B. Each and every one of which descended, in short order, into treacle, self-pity and sentiment. Eight hundred eighty words [...]
Until the trade for Michael Bourn, center field had been something of a revolving door for the Braves in the post-Andruw Jones era. Opening day rosters have featured such luminaries as Nate McLouth, Jordan Schafer, and Mark Kotsay. Rick Ankiel spent time in center. Needless to say, it’s been really nice having Bourn. The question [...]
Today marks the first caress of a proper fall day in Atlanta. Too soon for me to reflect in any detail upon the playoff, or any of the other bitter pangs in and outside of baseball the passing seasons has wrought– and yet soon enough we must. We carry the reminders of every glove that [...]
Okay, with the trade for Dan Uggla, it would appear that the Braves are through making major moves; the lineup, rotation, and back of the bullpen are all pretty much set up. The remaining efforts will be based upon tinkering around the edges, meaning the bench and the bullpen. I still expect the Braves to [...]
So, as mentioned, the Braves prefer to make major player acquisitions through trades. Given that, we need to figure out who the principal trade targets are, and who the Braves are willing to give up. People talk about the Cardinals trading Colby Rasmus, whom the Braves should have picked instead of Joey Devine, and no, [...]
Cot’s Baseball Contracts: Potential Free Agents for 2011. The Braves don’t normally sign major free agents. Even in the flush days, they signed only one really premium free agent (but that one was a doozy) and three kind of second-tier guys (Terry Pendleton, Brian Jordan, and Andres Galarraga), plus a number of lower-level guys. The [...]
