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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 [...]
The last few days, the Braves have been hinting through the media that they might be even more aggressive in promoting a shortstop than they’d indicated this offseason. Instead of giving the job to Tyler Pastornicky, who has no major league experience, they would give it to Andrelton Simmons, who doesn’t even have any AA [...]
Marco Scutaro Statistics and History – Baseball-Reference.com. Scutaro has always been a favorite of mine. He’s coming off sort of a career year (in that he slugged a career-high .423) but one in which he misssed nearly fifty games. He’s a good player who meets the Braves’ needs — he has pretty good on-base skills [...]
What if the Braves had traded Martin Prado before the season? I can’t recall any discussion of it, but the thought should have at least crossed their minds. What quality of prospect would he have brought? A pretty good one, I bet. At any rate, I see no reason to think that Prado won’t rebound [...]
