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• Padres vs. Braves: May 17-20

Photo by Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves will continue their homestand with a four-game series against the San Diego Padres. The Atlanta Braves will begin a long stretch of games without an off day Friday night against the San Diego Padres. Atlanta will play 17-straight games without an off day over the next two and a half weeks. The Braves enter Friday’s series ...2024
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• SB Nation Reacts: Fans still see Braves as NL East favorite

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images SB Nation Reacts voters still believe that the Braves are the favorites to win the NL East despite the Phillies’ hot start Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Atlanta Braves fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emai...2024
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• MLB Week 7 Roundup: You’ll never guess who the hottest team in baseball is!

Bryce Harper has been on a tear this year, helping keep the Phillies at the top of the National League. | Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports The Phillies and Yankees hold the top spots in their respective leagues, while the Rockies ride good vibes right into a winning streak It’s been a wild week around the league! While we still have our heavy-hitting teams that have been holding out on top...2024
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Thursday 5/16, 6:40 CT

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Cubs open a four-game set against the visitors from Pittsburgh. Thursday notes... STARTING OFF: Cubs starting pitchers have allowed no runs in seven of the team’s last 14 games, going back to May 1. They had blanked opponents in four of the team’s first 11 games, between April 1 and 9, not counting Luke Little’s one-inning effort as an opener. Then ...2024
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• Braves set to continue homestand against Padres

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images The Braves will begin a long stretch of games with a four-game series against the Padres The Atlanta Braves will continue their homestand Friday with a four-game series against the San Diego Padres. Friday’s game will begin a stretch of 17 straight games without an off day for the Braves. Atlanta began the homestand with a series win over the Chicago Cu...2024
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• Mets owner Steve Cohen denies team is planning to sell at trade deadline despite now-deleted tweet

The Mets sit in fourth place in the NL East at 19-23...2024
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• MLB Week 7 Roundup: You’ll never guess who the hottest team in baseball is!
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• Takeaways from the Braves’ series win over the Cubs

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves continued their home dominance by taking two of three from the Cubs. The Atlanta Braves couldn’t finish off a three-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs, but did come away with another series win. The Braves will enjoy another off day on Thursday before beginning a long stretch of games (17 in a row) without a break. Despite the...2024
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• Braves News: Austin Riley progressing, Atlanta secures series win, and more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. The Atlanta Braves received another positive update from third baseman Austin Riley, who exited Sunday’s game with soreness on his side. An MRI revealed that there was just some inflammation and that a move to the injured list would not be necessary. David O’Brien of The Athletic reported that ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 41

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs escape from Pittsburgh with a series win. Who doesn’t love a little travel escapade? After seeing my youngest graduate from Bradley University on Saturday, my Mother’s Day experience started in Illinois, spent a not insignificant time in Charlotte and found it’s way home to bed here in Tampa around 3 a.m. Love it. I was able to get our flight shi...2024
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• Braves return to Truist Park for three-game series against Cubs

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Braves took a disappointing loss Sunday, but have won four of five and are headed home for a seven-game homestand. The Atlanta Braves will return to Truist Park Monday where they will begin a seven-game homestand with a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs. The Braves missed out on a chance to sweep the New York Mets Sunday in disappointing fash...2024
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• NL East Notes: Luzardo, Ortiz, Johnson, Nationals
Jesus Luzardo was reinstated from the Marlins’ 15-day injured list today, with right-hander Eli Villalobos optioned to Triple-A in the corresponding move. Luzardo struggled to a 6.58 ERA over his first five starts and 26 innings before a mild left flexor strain (initially diagnosed as elbow tightness) sent him to the IL, so the three-week…...2024
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• Battery Power TV: Knocked out of first place, Atlanta Braves aiming to get going in the month of May

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves are headed to New York for another matchup with the Mets. The Atlanta Braves are in need of an offensive spark as they seek to keep the momentum of a brief two-game stay at Truist Park going and get their season back on track. A rough road trip knocked Atlanta out of first place and has the club in the unusual position of chas...2024
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• Braves News: Luis Guillorme trade, Zack Short acquisition, NL East showdown, and more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday. The team may have been off, but the front office was busy as the Atlanta Braves made a couple of trades on Thursday. First, the club announced a trade that sent infielder Luis Guillorme to the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for a player to be named later. 29-year-old Guillorme joined the B...2024
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• An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
Danny Rockett A summary of happenings at the first Cubs Con in three years. I am a part of the greatest community in the world: I am a Cubs fan. Cubs fans can be from anywhere and can be anyone. You can be a part of any religion, race, or gender and the bond that ties us all together is a love of the Chicago Cubs. Whether you’re an autograph hound, a fantasy league stats nerd, gear head, o...2023
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Jays, Royals, Mets Full Steam Ahead After Deadline
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"Cubs Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg helped lead the team to two NL East titles, won the NL MVP Award in 1984, and is one of the most popular Cubs of all time."

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"It’s possible these games could mean absolutely everything to a Cubs team wanting to make the playoffs for the first time in three years while being totally meaningless to a Braves team that has a 100 percent chance to not just make the playoffs but win the division: FanGraphs NL East division odds 8."

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"True, they had won the NL East in 2018 and would do so again in 2019, but they clearly saw the value in beginning to lock up young players long-term at below-market rates."

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"Javier Báez strikes out five times as Mets' NL East lead takes another hit with loss to Marlins"

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"MLB shuts down Marlins and Phillies, revises schedule for NL East, AL East teams amid COVID-19 outbreak"

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"Culberson, 30, played a big role for the Atlanta organization in its two consecutive NL East title years,…"

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"NL East Notes: Yelich, Mets, Arrieta, Rizzo"

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"Phils slow Nats' march to NL East title; No. is 2"

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"Lucas Duda hit a grand slam in the first inning Saturday at Great American Ball Park and the Mets never looked back, winning a 10-2 game over the Reds to clinch their first NL East title and playoff berth since 2006."

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"Bryce Harper Celebrates in Custom Firemans Helmet After Nationals Clinch NL East"

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• Braves set to continue homestand against Padres
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• Mets owner Steve Cohen denies team is planning to sell at trade deadline despite now-deleted tweet
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• Ted Leonsis 'very interested' in purchasing NL East team

It appears Leonsis is willing to be patient in putting together a new offer....2024
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• Braves News: Luis Guillorme trade, Zack Short acquisition, NL East showdown, and more
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• Outside The Confines: Bad breaks

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images Willson Contreras breaks his forearm. Some young players who are breaking out and one that isn’t. A look at the upcoming MLB Draft and other news from around baseball. Good morning. Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras had his forearm broken last night on a swing by the Mets’ J.D. Martinez. Martinez was awarded first base for catcher’s interference an...2024
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• Prognosticating the rest of the Atlanta Braves 2024 season

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Battery Power Almanac is back to soothsay the balance of the 2024 Atlanta Braves season predicated on the last four decades of “the 4’s”. As the bleeps and blorps of technology send us all careening into the AI embankment, it is time to unplug, power down and pull out the Battery Power Almanac for some fine reading while sipping s...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop opener with Rangers, 7-1; 4-game win streak snapped...

Notes and quotes on MacKenzie Gore’s start against the Rangers, and the Nationals’ loss in the series opener... CJ ABRAMS’ WORLD: Going into last night’s series opener in Arlington, TX, CJ Abrams had reached base safely in 15 straight games, with a .317/.414/.700 line, five doubles, three triples, four home runs, and eight walks in 70 plate appearances over course of the on-base streak, and hits i...2024
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• NL East Notes: Ozuna, Turnbull, Mets, Senga, Megill, Cavalli
“There’s no way you want to go explore somewhere else when you feel comfortable, when you’ve got your teammates and you’ve got your organization’s love. There’s no doubt in my decision. I don’t want to go anywhere else,” Marcell Ozuna told The Athletic’s David O’Brien about his desire to sign a contract extension with the…...2024
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• Braves have third best front office in baseball per The Athletic’s executive survey

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta’s front office is the third best in baseball according to a recent survey of executives by The Athletic. The Atlanta Braves have the third best front office in Major League Baseball according to a survey by The Athletic of 40 MLB executives. Atlanta received three first-place votes and finished behind the Los Angeles Dodgers and Ta...2024
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• Braves set to continue homestand against Padres
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• Takeaways from the Braves’ series win over the Cubs
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• Vote: Are the Braves still the favorites in the NL East?

Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves find themselves in an unusual situation looking up at the Phillies in the NL East standings Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Atlanta Braves fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The At...2024
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• Cubs vs. Braves: May 13-15

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Atlanta Braves return to Truist Park Monday where they will begin a seven-game homestand with a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs. The Braves took two out of three in New York. Atlanta was two outs away from a sweep Sunday before Brandon Nimmo took A.J. Minter deep to give Atlanta a 4-3 loss. They will try to bounce back this week against t...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 41
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• Braves vs. Mets: May 10-12

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Atlanta heads back out on the road for a quick three-game series against the New York Mets. After righting the ship with a two-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox, the Atlanta Braves will head right back out on the road for a quick trip to New York to face the Mets. The Braves are 22-12 on the season and enter play Friday two games back of the Philadelph...2024
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• Braves News: Luis Guillorme trade, Zack Short acquisition, NL East showdown, and more
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• Battery Power TV: Knocked out of first place, Atlanta Braves aiming to get going in the month of May
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• Outside The Confines: Bad breaks
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• For the 2024 Atlanta Braves’ offense it is deja vu all over again

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How soon we forget that at this point in the season, the 2023 Braves were playing a lot like the 2024 Braves are this year. That provides reasons for optimism for the team’s offense. After being swept in Los Angeles by the Dodgers, the Atlanta Braves hold a 20-12 record with one-fifth of the 2024 season in the books. Ignoring the ...2024
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• Braves News: Atlanta loses no-hit bid in eighth, game in ninth, barrels breakdown, more

Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports Disappointing start to the West Coast road trip for the Braves. On Monday, the Braves did not get their first hit of the ninth inning until the 7th inning. The Mariners did not get their first hit until the eighth inning. Max Fried produced six no-hit innings, and Joe Jimenez used some magic to miraculously preserve a 1-0 Atlanta lead heading into the n...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1

Ronel Blanco completed the first no-hitter of the season! | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Diving into the best and worst performances of the first week of the season The first week of the MLB season was full of action, including a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam and various hot and cold starts from a variety of teams. We’re here to give you the top performances and moments of the week, ...2024
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• Battery Power TV: Spencer Strider ready to roll, Jesse Chavez returns as Atlanta Braves open 2024

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images Grant McAuley and Kris Willis catch up on all of the latest Atlanta Braves news in advance of Opening Day. The 2024 season is upon us and the Atlanta Braves get things started where last season ended, opening up with a rematch against the NL East rival Philadelphia Phillies. Spencer Strider gets the ball on Opening Day, which was shifted from Thursday to...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Futures Game GameThread + more…

Notes and quotes as the Nationals take on the Nats’ top prospects this afternoon… NATIONALS FUTURES GAME: “We’re incredibly thankful for the continued support of our fans in D.C., and we can’t wait for them to get a look at some of the players who will make up our next championship-caliber roster,” President of Baseball Operations & GM Mike Rizzo said in a press release on today’s Nationals Future...2024
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• Dodgers will live up to the hype

Same region, new uniform: Shohei Ohtani brings his otherworldly talent from Anaheim to Los Angeles. | Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images One writer’s vision of how the 2024 season will play out We have made it to baseball season once again, which is good, but this year, it is not as exciting as usual. The White Sox are the worst team in MLB’s worst division, and their farm system is...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The 90-win East Division foes are largely intact from last year and look to make another postseason run The Philadelphia Phillies finished 14 games behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East standings, but came away victorious in the Division Series over the NL East champs for the second straight season. Philadelphia spent most of the offseason doubling down ...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Washington Nationals

Photo by Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Nationals have an eye on the future, which means all eyes are on the likes of James Wood and Dylan Crews. The Washington Nationals won the World Series in 2019, had a disastrous title defense in 2020 and promptly went into rebuilding mode. It's now 2024 and they're still in rebuilding mode for the foreseeable future. While baseball ...2024
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• Mets NL East faves?
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• deGrom silences Phils in one-hit shutout
The Mets arrived in Philadelphia closer in the NL East standings to the fourth-place Phillies than the first-place Nationals, desperate for a series win. Jacob deGrom delivered just that in a 5-0 win over the Phillies on Sunday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park....2016
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• Believe that: Mets win first East title since '06
Lucas Duda hit a grand slam in the first inning Saturday at Great American Ball Park and the Mets never looked back, winning a 10-2 game over the Reds to clinch their first NL East title and playoff berth since 2006. Matt Harvey pitched into the seventh, David Wright iced things with a late three-run homer and the bullpen did the rest, inciting a jubilee in the visiting clubhouse....2015
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• Believe that: Mets win first East title since '06
Lucas Duda hit a grand slam in the first inning Saturday at Great American Ball Park and the Mets never looked back, winning a 10-2 game over the Reds to clinch their first NL East title and playoff berth since 2006. Matt Harvey pitched into the seventh, David Wright iced things with a late three-run homer and the bullpen did the rest, inciting a jubilee in the visiting clubhouse....2015
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• Cole Hamels to Rangers: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Mets' DC rally: 'This was amazing!'
The Mets showed the Nationals on Tuesday night who's boss in the National League East as New York outslugged Washington, 8-7, at Nationals Park. With the victory, the Mets are now six games ahead of the Nationals in the N.L. East race....2015
• Mets' DC rally: 'This was amazing!'
The Mets showed the Nationals on Tuesday night who's boss in the National League East as New York outslugged Washington, 8-7, at Nationals Park. With the victory, the Mets are now six games ahead of the Nationals in the N.L. East race....2015
• Bryce Harper Celebrates in Custom Firemans Helmet After Nationals Clinch NL East
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• MLB Week 7 Roundup: You’ll never guess who the hottest team in baseball is!
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• An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Why Won't Anyone Take a Chance on Yoenis Cespedes?
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• Jason Heyward-Shelby Miller Blockbuster Trade a Win-Win Move Each Had to Make
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Thursday 5/16, 6:40 CT
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• Braves set to continue homestand against Padres
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• Takeaways from the Braves’ series win over the Cubs
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• Braves News: Austin Riley progressing, Atlanta secures series win, and more
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Atlanta Braves preview, Monday 5/13, 6:20 CT

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs open a three-game set at Truist Park. Today’s roster move: Here Looks like possible weather issues for the Cubs and Braves tonight, per this forecast (and maybe tomorrow, too). So, here’s the Atlanta-area radar for you to keep handy. Monday notes... NUMBERS AT THE ONE-QUARTER MARK: The Cubs have completed the first quarter of their schedule wi...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 41
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• Braves look to extend streak against Mets

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves head back out on the road Friday for a three-game series against the Mets. After a brief two-game homestand, the Atlanta Braves will head back out on the road Friday where they will begin a three-game series against the New York Mets. Charlie Morton will get the start for Atlanta while New York will go with left-hander Jose Qu...2024
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• Battery Power TV: Knocked out of first place, Atlanta Braves aiming to get going in the month of May
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Mets series preview

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Cubs continue their Eastern swing with a stop at Citi Field. The Mets and Cubs used to be huge rivals when they shared a division, the NL East. But since the teams were moved to different divisions 30 years ago, they meet only twice a year, once in each ballpark. After this week the teams will play a three-game set at Wrigley Field in June, th...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1
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• Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination

Sixteen staffers take a stab at how the coming baseball season will play out, with L.A. or Atlanta likely to take it all It will undoubtedly be the final time in my life to type these words, so let’s make it plain that the lead author of this story is the Returning Champion, as we begin another year of South Side Sox predictions. At publication time roughly 24 hours before the White Sox season got...2024
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• 2024 NL West Preview: The Dodgers have loaded up for October

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Just like with Atlanta in the NL East, it’s all about what Los Angeles can do in October instead of the regular season. While the NL Central may be wide open, there are no such delusions of grandeur to be had in the NL West. That means that it’s probably going to be another long season in Denver for the Colorado Rockies, who are very likely going to spend a...2024
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• 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves are once again the favorites to win the division but as far as Atlanta is concerned, it’s all about what they do in October. For the past few years, the story of the National League’s Eastern Division has been one that feels very familiar to how it was during the 1990s. While the Atlanta Braves have won the NL East for six straight seasons dating b...2024
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• 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Things can’t get worse after a disastrous 2023 season... right? Everything went wrong for the Mets in 2023. Really, it’s been a downward spiral since the club lost a 10.5 game divisional lead to the Braves in the summer months of 2022 and then quickly bowed out in the Wild Card round against the Padres. A real shame. Objectively speaking, there was no reason ...2024
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• Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Bartolo Colon

Bartolo Colon’s 21-year career saw him play for 11 different teams including the Atlanta Braves in 2017. | Photo by Patrick Duffy/Beam Imagination/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images He won more games than any Latin American pitcher in MLB history and won an American League Cy Young Award. Should that be enough for “Big Sexy” to gain entrance into Cooperstown? When you say the nickname “Big Sexy” ...2024
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• Sizing up the NL East heading into 2024

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves have won six straight NL East titles and still look like the cream of the division’s crop The Atlanta Braves have done most of their heavy lifting this offseason, but there are still some key players available and moves left to be made around Major League Baseball as the calendar plunges into January. The Braves themselves have...2024
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• Braves have another meeting in the desert while looking for a winning oasis
Joseph Rondone/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK For the second year in a row at around the same time, the Braves felt compelled to have a clubhouse meeting. The different circumstances suggest that the standards have risen. By now, most of Braves Country and a lot of the baseball world is at least aware of the lore from last season. After playing a calamitous baseball game on May 31 in ord...2023
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• It's starting to feel like 2020 again for the Atlanta Braves
Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In 2020, the Braves leaned on their offense and their bullpen to carry them to the playoffs. They'll be doing it again for maybe the next couple of months. Do y’all remember the 2020 season? I know that season had a depressing ending in the massive shed in Arlington, Texas that’s masquerading as a baseball stadium, but it was still good...2023
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