Touki is starting in the first Spring Training game Saturday against the Mets. Kolby Allard will also pitch. Go Braves. My choice for the breakout is Luiz Gohara. At the end of the day, he has the highest ceiling, and if...
Read MoreThere were a lot of eggs for a long time in the J.T. Realmuto basket. And those eggs were emptied out of said basket and smashed on the ground. So at this point, we’ve not been told we are in on anyone by the front office....
Read MoreAs you know, JT Realmuto has been traded to the Phillies. Thank the Lord. I’m so sick of hearing about him. And for what the Phillies gave up for him, they better get two really good years out of him, especially in their...
Read More#1 Moneyball vs. #4 The Stratton Story Baseball Movie Slugfest – Quarterfinals – Drama – #1 Moneyball vs. #4 The Stratton Story — BravesJournal.com (@Braves_Journal) February 7, 2019 #2 The Natural vs. #3...
Read MoreI just wanted to put up a fresh post and give us a new thread. How might playing time shake out if the Braves don’t add anyone else? Well, let’s take a look at last year. These were the top PA earners last year:...
Read MoreThe first category of the Baseball Movie Slugfest by Braves Journal is Comedy/Romance. You can see the entire bracket below: Baseball Movie Slugfest by Braves Journal (crude) bracket. Let the games begin!...
Read MoreSports are stupid. Sports are irrational. Sports are dumb. Complain if you like, but it is truth. Sports makes no damned sense. You know as much. In that kernel of greater reasoning embedded in your frontal cortex, you know. In...
Read MoreYesterday saw the deadline to tender contracts to all players on the 40-man. Everyone currently on the 40-man were tendered contracts. Jonny Venters signed a 1 YR, $2.25M deal. If Venters can stay healthy enough to give you...
Read MoreAJC Exclusive: Changes coming to Braves’ broadcast team The Braves will move Joe Simpson to mostly radio with Jeff Francoeur becoming lead TV analyst.  The easy reaction is that it was more than time for Simpson to move...
Read MoreToday, the Braves made two big moves adding position players to the roster: Josh Donaldson and Brian McCann. A quick word about McCann as the majority of this post will be about Donaldson. If your expectation for the catcher...
Read MoreIf you’re new to the blog, you may not know that there is a Braves Journal Glossary. You can see the entire glossary here. We’ve made some new additions: Outciarte – Nickname for Ender Inciarte. Ender is...
Read MoreWell, the weekend thread lasted a little longer. As mentioned, we’ve got some stuff planned for later in the offseason, but, once again, still just not much going on. Sniter getting manager of the year is interesting. It...
Read MoreNot much going on, really, league-wide, so we shall wait for the Hot Stove to become lit. What’s a college football prediction you find noteworthy? Which player that hasn’t gotten much play would you be excited...
Read MoreOne thing clearly apparent from the playoff series against the Dodgers is that the Braves bench has a long way to go to be playoff quality. While the Dodgers were at various times bringing the likes of Max Muncy, Joc Pederson,...
Read MoreThe Braves came into the season with a lot of uncertainty in the pen. From the 2017 squad, only these five pitchers logged more than 50 appearances: Jose Ramirez, Arodys Vizcaino, Jim Johnson, Sam Freeman, and Ian Krol. Krol,...
Read MoreThere are lots of players from our system that will be eligible for Rule 5, but remember what is actually in play. Should a team claim one of our players, that team must carry that player on the 25-man roster next year or offer...
Read MoreThe Braves had enough other problems to address last offseason that carrying on with the adequacy of Tyler Flowers and Kurt Suzuki was the simplest thing to do, and that’s exactly what they did, with mostly similar...
Read MoreAround 3.25 this morning Alex Wood came on to pitch the top of the 18th innings in Game 3 of the World Series. The Score had been stuck at 2-2 since the 13th. Fox had long since run out of paid commercials to show, nothing but...
Read MoreBoy, did we have a weird outfield last year. The right fielder played like an MVP candidate for half the season and then like Nick Markakis in the next half, the centerfielder played like BJ Upton for half the season but would...
Read MoreAs mentioned in Part 1, there are still plenty of needs on the pitching side. By my count, there are currently 12 starting pitchers in the organization who could factor into the rotation at some point in 2019: Mike Foltynewicz,...
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