Julio Teheran
With the exception of Andrelton Simmons, Julio Teheran is the most important player in the Braves organization. Thanks to a winter spending spree, the Braves have both locked up through 2020 (in Teheran’s case, it’s...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Mar 29, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
With the exception of Andrelton Simmons, Julio Teheran is the most important player in the Braves organization. Thanks to a winter spending spree, the Braves have both locked up through 2020 (in Teheran’s case, it’s...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Mar 26, 2014 | Open Threads, Player Analysis 2013
Alls I’m sayin’ is, it’s spring. Rebirth. Season of hope. Trust your team’s people and all that.
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Mar 23, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Will Jason Heyward finally break out with a full and healthy season of all-star offense to match his all-world defense? Will he ever put together the kind of year that both the numbers-counters and advanced-metric types agree...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Mar 17, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
On January 24, 2013, the Braves acquired LF Justin Upton and 3B Chris Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks for infielder Martin Prado, pitcher Randall Delgado, and three minor leaguers. For the very short term—as in, a single...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Mar 12, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Well, THAT was quick. A day after announcing that Kris Medlen’s MRI revealed elbow ligament damage and conceding that Medlen, Beachy, and Minor might all open the season on the Disabled List, Frank Wren managed to sign the...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Mar 11, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Orange line = PAs per month Blue area = OPS per month Zero values indicate injury or being sent down.
Read Moreby Smitty | Feb 20, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
The former Future All Star/Next Andruw Jones/Suspended for PEDs/Home Run in his First AB/F@%*ing Success/Traded to and Released by the LAstros, was the 25th man on the roster last season. It was presumed he would be released or...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Feb 15, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
You just can’t oversell Mike Minor. In addition to being an outstanding product of that fine private university up Nashville way; in addition to providing the Braves with a “true #1” anchor to their rotation;...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Feb 13, 2014 | Open Threads, Player Analysis 2013
Not that I think there should be a limit on the Andrelton love, but that thread was getting a little long. So here’s a new thread about Ryan Doumit. Ryan Doumit came up as a catcher in the Pirates organization. As an...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Feb 9, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Andrelton Simmons is the best defensive player in baseball. He’s the first Brave to win that title by acclamation since the heyday of Andruw Jones, and in related news, Braves pitchers allowed fewer runs per game — 3.38...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Feb 7, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
I asked Alex if I could have the Mat Gamel write up. I love marginal players like this. They amuse me. They open themselves up to a bit more than a straight “what to expect from them statistically” bit. It’s...
Read Moreby Sam Hutcheson | Feb 5, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
What exactly is left to say about The Kraken? Craig Kimbrel is absurdly good at his job. Just stupid good. Craig Kimbrel is about to get really expensive. At some point in either the very near, or not quite very near but...
Read Moreby W.C.G. | Feb 2, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Last winter, the Braves and Angels made a challenge trade of promising pitchers with injury issues. The Braves got the better end of the trade (Tommy Hanson, sent to Anaheim in the deal, made 13 mostly-ineffective starts and was...
Read Moreby W.C.G. | Jan 31, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Continuing a theme from last thread, David Hale is another piece of what figures to be a mix-and-match back end of the Braves’ rotation this year. The Braves drafted Hale out of Princeton in the third round in 2009, and he...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Jan 25, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Alex Wood is the first player from the 2011, 2012, or 2013 Braves draft classes to reach the major leagues. (He was the team’s second-round pick in 2012, #85 overall.) There are two major reasons for this: 1) He was a college...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Jan 21, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
First, the ugly truths via the ugly numbers: In November 2012, B.J. Upton signed with the Braves as a free-agent for $75,250,000, the largest such deal in franchise history. In the first campaign of his five-year pact, the new...
Read Moreby Alex Remington (Another Alex R.) | Jan 20, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Living up here in the land that still thinks Jim Leyritz made the world right (rather than sending all right-thinking Americans into a decade-long funk) I try, unsuccessfully, to avoid following the Yankees. It’s not actually...
Read Moreby Smitty | Jan 18, 2014 | Bravessaga, Player Analysis 2013, Putative Humor
Evan Gattis is not just a great baseball player. He is the greatest human being ever. 1845: El Oso Blanco publishes the rules of baseball. 1879: Assists Thomas Edison in inventing the light bulb. 1903: After years of attempting...
Read Moreby Smitty | Jan 15, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
Chipper Who? Well, let’s not go too far. Chris Johnson was the “throw in†piece in the deal that brought Justin Upton over from Arizona. Initially he was considered to be a back up, possible platoon partner for Juan...
Read Moreby W.C.G. | Jan 6, 2014 | Player Analysis 2013
2013 was a breakout year for Freddie Freeman on the field, as he raised his OPS 101 points to almost .900 and made his first All-Star team. But even more fascinatingly, it was also the year he became the Braves’ — hell, the...
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