Category: Braves

It’s been a pretty miserable week for Braves fans. They lost two more one-run games over the weekend after my last post, falling to 2-16 for the year. This poor performance can be chalked up to terrible luck, because I’m not sure that a team with mostly the same players as past years can really […]

The 2008 Atlanta Braves are not a bad team.  They’re currently third in the NL East, 2.5 games behind the Marlins, and fourth in the Wild Card race, 2.5 games behind the Cardinals. The Braves are better than both of the leaders for those playoff spots.  Only the Chicago Cubs have a better Pythagorean record, […]

Today’s game is actually already underway by the time I’m posting this, but perhaps you need something to read while watching it. The Braves swept the Mets in four games this week before losing two of three to the D-Backs heading into the conclusion of that series today. That’s a 5-2 week against two good […]

Chris Resop made two appearances last week, which was probably the best signal that the Braves played eight games in seven days.  And Blaine Boyer only tied for the third-most relief innings for the team last week!  All was right with the world, if you don’t consider that the Braves lost two more road series.  […]

It’s no secret across Major League Baseball that Chipper Jones is off to the best start in his future-Hall-of-Fame career.  Most notably, he’s leading the league with a .418 batting average and starting lots of (premature) talk of hitting .400 for a whole season. The last serious challenger to this mark was Tony Gwynn in […]

You know things are getting frustrating when you follow the first one-run win of the season with a one-run loss.  The Braves did just that this past week, capping off a 6-game homestand sweep with a win over the Padres on Thursday before losing their tenth one-run game of the season to the Pirates on […]

The Cincinnati Reds seemed to be the Braves’ cure-all over the weekend.  A three-game sweep followed the Braves’ four-game losing streak within the division, and they’re now sitting at .500 (15-15) once again.  Unfortunately, the rest of the NL East won on Sunday, and the Braves are still two games back of the new division […]

A look at the starting pitchers Right now, the only title the Braves are winning is probably “Best Under-.500 Team,” and neither they nor fans like myself are hoping that’s how they will finish.  The lineup simply hasn’t been doing their part; despite decent overall numbers, they have totally imploded in close situations. The starting […]

You just knew that eventually Mark Teixeira was going to emerge as one of the team’s top hitters.   That wasn’t supposed to require injuries to the rest of the lineup, although that appears to be the way it’s going down.  Oh, and the Braves are 0-8 in one-run games.  Sometimes, baseball can just be cruel. […]