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Yes, I’m excited. Five years and $75.25 million is obviously a risk, but in my view, BJ Upton is clearly the best fit for the Braves among free-agent CF options, and he came a bit more cheaply than I thought possible. (I envisioned him signing with the Phillies for something like six years, $100 million. [...]
Sometimes you make a move that’s supposed to help, and you get Adam LaRoche hitting lights out for two months, or two good years of John Burkett. And sometimes you make a move that’s supposed to help, and it doesn’t and its name is Shane Reynolds or Casey Kotchman, and you want to quit sports [...]
In 2006, 16 year old Luis Avilan was representing the Braves in the Dominican Summer League, the first of his 7 seasons in professional baseball to date. Through his age 22 season, (he turned 23 in July) the left handed Avilan has accumulated 460 professional innings. By way of comparison, through their age 22 seasons, [...]
In a few years when people start reviewing some of the great trades of the John Schuerholz era, the Tim Hudson deal will be right near the top. In fact, it may even be tied with the Great Fred McGriff Theft of 1993. In December 2004 the Braves sent Charles Thomas, Juan Cruz and Dan [...]
This year, as every year, I have much to be thankful for. One of the small graces in my life has always been this blog, which was really my first regular blog community on the web. Losing Mac was a tragedy in all of our lives, but I’m both proud and grateful that the blog [...]
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 [...]
In 2011, Juan Francisco, on his way to compiling a .289 OBP in 93 AB’s, hit a 502-foot home run out of Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. That nicely summarizes Francisco’s offensive strength and weakness: intriguing power, but low demonstrated on-base ability. In four Major League seasons, Francisco has managed only 361 ABs, with 14 [...]
It’s November 16, 2012. In the last week or so, the Braves lost David Ross as a free agent signing to the Red Sox. Having lost Brian McCann to shoulder surgery earlier in the off-season, the Braves were suddenly reduced to considering Evan Gattis and Christian Bethancourt as legitimate Opening Day catching options. Gattis, who [...]
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 [...]
Once upon a time… there was a pitcher. He was a very young pitcher. So young that he could barely buy beer. All the people said he was going to be a great pitcher someday. So he went out and he tried to be a great pitcher. He wasn’t. This is what the batters did [...]
