Welcome to an abbreviated, off-day week-in-review. The Atlanta Braves mostly played terrible baseball last week. Let’s talk about why. Atlanta Completes Padre Sweep; Gets Swept by Gnats and Phillies Ah, the good old days of [READ MORE]
The 2017 Atlanta Braves – Optimizing the Sub-Optimal A year ago, I posted an article theorizing how best to optimize the 2016 Braves lineup. Fredi Gonzalez didn’t listen to me. Fredi Gonzalez is no longer [READ MORE]
The Braves played six games this week with 2 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie in 10 innings against St. Louis on Sunday. The Braves made their first cuts of the spring, and some Braves players [READ MORE]
Welcome to the final Hot Stove Week-in-Review of the offseason! Tuesday there will be pitchers and catchers in Orlando doing baseball player type things. Spring training is so close you can smell the pine tar, [READ MORE]
Welcome to a new on-going series that will examine the Braves system depth by position as the calendar turns oh… so… slowly… towards the opening of spring training, with pitchers and catchers set to report [READ MORE]
2016 Post-Mortem will take a look at each position, how it fared in 2016, and where the team is set to go in the future. Previous Post-Mortems: Catcher. Player BA OBP SLG Comb. WAR [READ MORE]
Lineup protection is something that’s still discussed pretty heavily in baseball these days. While many saber-concepts have caught on with the mainstream, like shifting defenses, eliminating sacrifice bunts, the silliness of pitcher wins, and better [READ MORE]
I have noticed during the course of the last two seasons there is a surprisingly large pocket of Atlanta Braves fans who like to question Freddie Freeman‘s performance, especially jumping on him for any period [READ MORE]
Earlier this week, I wrote about what Julio Teheran’s trade value should be, or at least what Atlanta should determine it to be. Julio is obviously Atlanta’s biggest trade chip, but he isn’t the only [READ MORE]
Winning ain’t easy. Only 50% of all participating teams even win baseball games. When you have really good teams like the Cubs and Dodgers and Astros and Royals factoring in, that leaves a few teams [READ MORE]
Outfield Fly Rule 2016-2020