Category: 2022-23 Offseason

When I talked about the new blog debuting to some of the crew, we talked about this idea of keeping the chat as similar to the old school Braves Journal as possible. What we’ve experienced this last week hasn’t been...

Before we get to the post, I want to respond to the last thread. Are Spring Training stats meaningless? Loaded question, but…Yes. They mean nothing. No team is going to start a season 1-0 because it carried the best spring...

Scene: Anthopoulos sits at the head of a table that seats 12. 11 of his constituents eagerly await the plan to address the nightmare that was the 2022 Braves left field position. AA: “Alright crew. What happens when you...

When looking at the Braves 2023 Outfield, you’d be channelling your inner Chief if you were anything but elated with RF and CF. With a fully healthy Ronald Acuna Jr. and last year’s ROY Michael Harris II patrolling...

If healthy, the Braves have 4 stud starting pitchers solidified in their rotation. My way too early guess for how those 4 will align to start the season is Max Fried, Spencer Strider, Charlie Morton then Kyle Wright....

There’s no sense in focusing on scores when discussing Spring Training. Sure, it’s somewhat fun to win, but winning means nothing and I’m not going to write about nothing even though I wrote the word nothing 3...

This is the 3rd installment of our breakdown of Dan Szymborski’s Team Rankings via Fangraphs. If you’re late to the party, our first 2 pieces can be found here: Braves Fangraphs Rankings: Starting Pitchers Braves...

After Chip Caray, who’d been broadcasting for the Braves in some form for 18 years, left to take the TV play-by-play position with the St. Louis Cardinals a few weeks ago, the Braves had a position they had to fill quickly. A...

Let me clear the air first… I am not panicking. Every year, news leaks about players and their health and most injuries or setbacks work themselves out before Opening Day. Alright…now I’ll talk shop. Hiccups in...

Whether it’s Baseball America, Keith Law, Kiley McDaniel, Fangraphs, MLB, the 2023 Braves farm system is rated at the very bottom of the barrel…and it likely deserves it. I had a friend whose father worked at the...

I was one of the most vociferous people on this blog arguing against trading William Contreras for Sean Murphy. Well, we did it anyway, and we’re projected to have the fourth-best catching in baseball, way ahead of William...

For many advanced metric sites, the 2023 Braves have the loftiest of projections, with many ranking them to be the team with the most wins in the 2023 season. While that projection scares the Dickens out of me, I don’t...

Prior to the Braves signing Will Smith, I was outspoken on Twitter and fully against bringing him aboard. I think it was less about his performance, and more about the person. Too many videos showed him staring down players...

Austin Riley has come a long way since his rookie year of 2019. His season had the hallmarks of a shooting star that year, and once pitchers figured him out, he burned out to the point where he didn’t even make the playoff...