The post-All-Star revival continued for another week, as the Braves knocked down two of their fellow Wild Card contenders for series wins. They finished the week 5-2 and are now three games over .500 for the season. The Phillies, unfortunately, haven’t slowed down from their hot streak, and they remain 6.5 games up (8 in […]
Month: July 2009
Braves Chart of the Day: July 24, 2009
The Braves suddenly have a power-hitting shortstop they didn’t know they had: Yunel Escobar. Moving him down in the lineup seems to have unleashed an ability Escobar hadn’t shown before. He’s now up to 11 homers and a very good .857 OPS to go with average (not stellar) defense and a reportedly poor attitude. There’s […]
Sports radio shifting to TV simulcasts?
I don’t know why this kind of stuff interests me, but it does. CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell blogged today about the future of live sports broadcasts on the radio, reporting that the New York Islanders are becoming the third NHL team to do away with their radio broadcasters in favor of a TV […]
Braves Chart of the Day: July 23, 2009
Excuse this quick media rant: What makes a player good defender? If you’re following some Braves broadcasters and writers, you’d think it’s a lack of errors, and little else. For many years, defensive statistics were so limited that they were meaningless. We had errors, along with putouts and assists, but these have very little meaning […]
Braves Chart of the Day: July 21, 2009
Derek Lowe has been alarmingly inconsistent this year, so much so that you could make a legitimite case for him as the worst member of the Braves’ current rotation. He hasn’t been able to locate his sinker half the time, and as you’re probably aware, that’s a big part of his game. Unlike some pitchers, […]
Braves Check: July 20, 2009
At long last, the Braves have returned to .500, but the Phillies are on such a roll that they’re still losing ground in the playoff race. At least they only have one team to catch in the East now, having overtaken the Marlins for second place. There are still three teams between the Braves and […]
An Atlanta Braves-cation
I think she still enjoyed herself, but Melissa called this past weekend a “Braves-cation.” To me, that sounds like a lot of fun, and it definitely was. She was right that our trip to Atlanta over the weekend was very Braves-centric. We only went to one game, the Friday night blowout win, but we made […]
Braves Check: July 13, 2009
Beginning Thursday, it’s a new season for the Braves, albeit one in which they begin six games out of a playoff spot. The Phillies and Giants have been hot lately, pulling away from the field in the NL East and NL Wild Card races, while the Braves have barely treaded water. This week they went […]
Francoeur traded for living, breathing professional baseball player
I need to forget the Chart of the Day more often. I was expecting the inevitable Braves release of Jeff Francoeur to be an addition-by-subtraction kind of event where the team just let him go over the offseason and expected to get better, if only because there was nowhere to go but up. Seriously, Jeff […]
Braves Chart of the Day: July 9, 2009
We’re digging into the farm system for today’s chart. A 16th-round pick out of Nova Southeastern University (Division II), Riaan Spanjer-Furstenburg is the Appalachian league’s leading hitter and the Danville Braves’ first baseman. He’s hitting .459/.500/.721 in 70 PAs, which is basically what I do in my video games. Below is a chart of his […]
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