The 2020 Micro-Season
What’s the least amount of baseball that would be worth playing before the powers that be simply cancel the entire season? Here’s a proposal for a Micro-Season. (Disclaimer: this is not a prediction that a...
Read Moreby Rusty S. | Mar 28, 2020 | 2020-21 Offseason, Open Threads
What’s the least amount of baseball that would be worth playing before the powers that be simply cancel the entire season? Here’s a proposal for a Micro-Season. (Disclaimer: this is not a prediction that a...
Read Moreby Dylan Short | Jul 1, 2019 | 2019 Player Preview, 2019 Recaps, Open Threads
It’s been an incredible 1st half for the Atlanta Braves. 6.5 games up in a division that, before Opening Day, was projected to be one of the tightest in baseball. The offense has been amazing, and while the defense...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Dec 18, 2017 | Open Threads, Where Do We Go From Here?
Let’s new-thread. Here. I’ll provide a conversation starter via Peanut: “With his first significant move as the Braves GM, Anthopoulos cleaned the lingering mess from the Olivera trade, which was fueled by...
Read Moreby blazon | Dec 4, 2017 | Open Threads
If you’re retired and live deep in the country where beauty abounds and distractions are few, you saw almost every game the Braves played this year. A month after it all ended we became spectators of the same game played...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Nov 27, 2017 | Open Threads
Related to my comment @37 in the previous thread, I got a few emails from Jay Wigley of Retrosheet, who asks for our help: I wonder if you’ve ever asked that community (your readers, other Braves fan contacts) whether they...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Nov 20, 2017 | Open Threads, Rampant Stupidity, The Great Teardown and Rebuild
Just throwing up a new thread to handle any coming sturm und drang re: Coppallellagate. Figure it’s worth it just to segregate the blow back from today’s (assumed) news releases out into their own holding pond. If...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Nov 14, 2017 | Open Threads
The first good news I’ve heard in a very long time. Alex Anthopoulos is just about the best possible General Manager the Braves could have chosen, for two reasons: 1) In Toronto, he made a lot of very good moves. Some of...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Aug 30, 2017 | Open Threads
A Look Back The Vols entered 2016 as the favorites to win the SEC East. And it appeared they were a team of destiny after Josh Dobbs hit Jauan Jennings on the final play to beat Georgia. Tennessee’s magic started to run out...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Aug 11, 2017 | Open Threads
Since it’s timely, I visited the park for the first time last night. Richard B, of the old Baseball Primer hordes, was in town for work and we decided to catch a game (he wanted to check off a new park on his travels,...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Mar 23, 2017 | Open Threads
We only have one more week until November without meaningful baseball. So let’s have some fun as we run out the clock. I went to see my barber and he gave me a rundown of how all this will fold out, along with a straight...
Read Moreby Stu | Mar 10, 2017 | Open Threads
[Note: I’m optimistic about the team going forward, and now that Spring games have started, it’s a time for joy and excitement. This is a curmudgeonly take that doesn’t really fit well, timing-wise —...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Mar 1, 2017 | Open Threads, Putative Humor
Disclaimer to this post. Everything below is a blatant ripoff of Drew Magary’s fine work at Deadspin in his annual Why Your Team Sucks NFL preview. He invented this format that I am stealing, in which he insults the team...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Jan 26, 2017 | Open Threads
I have watched Jeff Francoeur play baseball and his smile you were probably trying to market Forgive me he is bad so terrible and bad
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Oct 8, 2016 | Open Threads
68-93. After all of that, the Braves actually won one more game than they did in 2015, back when Andrelton Simmons was our starting shortstop, and our five-man rotation included Shelby Miller and Alex Wood. When Fredi Gonzalez...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Sep 25, 2016 | Open Threads
To an Athlete Dying Young By A. E. Housman The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. Today, the road all runners come,...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Jul 15, 2016 | Open Threads
You may have noticed that Braves Journal went down for a few hours on Thursday afternoon. That’s because the site was hacked and used to send out a great deal of spam, so the administrators who manage our hosted account...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Jul 13, 2016 | Open Threads
The Senior Circuit’s bums just dropped the game to the DH league, more or less as usual. The NL won three straight from 2010-2012, but this is the AL’s fourth straight victory, and it’s starting to feel like it...
Read Moreby blazon | Jun 9, 2016 | Open Threads
There’s a breathless hush in the close to-night Ten to make and the match to win A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play, and the last man in. And it’s not for the sake of a ribboned coat. Or the...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | May 23, 2016 | Open Threads
You may not think so now, but Fredi Gonzalez was one of the better managers in Braves history. With history written daily, a first attempt at placing Fredi Gonzalez on the continuum of Braves managers reveals both the weaknesses...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Apr 19, 2016 | Open Threads
The Dodgers are coming to town tonight, but that’s not the most important thing that happened today. Today is Jayne Mansfield’s 83rd birthday!
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