Suddenly the Braves seem like a team with a little resilience and fight in them, don’t they? I didn’t watch much of the games this week, since they were almost all late starts, but winning 3 of 4 against the Dodgers on the road can’t be a bad thing. A series win against the Padres […]
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Jason Heyward Discussion
A baseball discussion topic for your weekend, if you’re so inclined. I’ll be navigating some whitewater on the Hiwassee River tomorrow, so do as you wish. If you follow baseball, you’re well aware that hitting prospects are treated differently from pitching prospects. A good pitcher has tremendous value, but a pitching prospect’s much higher injury […]
Braves Check: August 3, 2009
A noisy trade deadline has passed, and the Braves are nine games out of first place in the NL East (third place) and five games out of the Wild Card (fifth place). They added Adam LaRoche for Casey Kotchman in a sort of perplexing deal at the deadline, but they’re facing an uphill climb to […]
Braves Check: July 27, 2009
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 […]
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 […]
