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• Is the NL East going to get away from the Braves?

Dennis Lee-Imagn Images It’s getting late early The Braves have been stuck in neutral or worse for decent stretches of the year. They sit eight and a half games behind the Phillies at 25-26. Fangraphs rates their odds at 16.8% to win the division, as of Saturday. So they saying there’s a chance... out of six. The Braves haven’t exactly gotten a lot of good results out of their interesting ...2025
• NL East Notes: Montas, Blackburn, Manaea, Nola, Finnegan
Frankie Montas saw his first proper game action of the 2025 season on Saturday, when the right-hander tossed 37 pitches over 1 1/3 innings for high-A Brooklyn in the first game of a minor league rehab assignment. Montas signed a two-year, $34MM free agent deal with the Mets this past winter, but was immediately sidelined…...2025
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• MLB Insider Drops 2025 Prediction Following Returns of Ronald Acuña Jr. and Spencer Strider
Ronald Acuña Jr. homers on first pitch back following Chris Rose's bold call: the Braves will win the NL East despite early struggles....2025
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• Ronald Acuña, Jr. returns as Braves host Padres - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Atlanta welcomes back its superstar outfielder. Ronald Acuña, Jr. returns after almost one year away due to a knee injury as the Atlanta Braves welcome the San Diego Padres in rematch of the season’s opening series. Atlanta comes home after winning their road series in Boston against the Red Sox before the team was swept in a di...2025
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• Mets’ NL East Setback Sparks Blunt Juan Soto Review From Former World Series Champ
Juan Soto has received increased criticism due to a slow start amid the New York Mets' current slump that has them falling behind in the NL East....2025
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• Taking a look at the Atlanta Braves with Demetrius Bell of Battery Power

Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images I asked Demetrius Bell some questions about the Braves ahead of their series with the Washington Nationals Battery Power is one of the premier baseball sites in the SB Nation network. With the Braves coming to town, I wanted to pick one of their writers brains about the state of the 2025 Atlanta Braves, as well as their thoughts about the Nationals from afar. I tu...2025
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• Ronald Acuña, Jr. returns as Braves host Padres - and here’s how you can watch
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• Washington Nationals vs Atlanta Braves Series Preview

Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images Just a week removed from their last series, Washington is trying to stay competitive in a tough NL East while Atlanta is slowly putting themselves in the mix to claim a division crown. What a series from the Washington Nationals, showing their offensive potential while sweeping the Baltimore Orioles. Stars such as James Wood and CJ Abrams have put the Washingto...2025
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• MLB Week 7 Hot or Not: A week of epic walk-offs and go-ahead games!

Taylor Ward hits a go-ahead grand slam against the Padres at Petco park on May 12, 2025. | Vincent Mizzoni/MLB Photos via Getty Images Last week was a whirlwind filled with exciting finishes from old and new faces. This week’s Hot or Not summary reviews the best and worst in MLB from May 11-17. AL West Hot: Angels stun the Padres in epic fashionHeading into the ninth, the Angels had a 1.9...2025
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• NL East Notes: Young, Mauricio, Edwards
Today’s game between the Nationals and the Orioles included a scary moment where Nats center fielder Jacob Young crashed into the outfield wall at full speed and went down, as noted by Spencer Nausbaum of the Washington Post. He eventually departed the game with a left shoulder injury and was replaced by Alex Call in the…...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 8

Ken Blaze-Imagn Images Cardinals surge, but Cubs remain at top of the pack Welcome to the eighth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado, let’s rank some teams! 1. Chic...2025
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• The Cubs have had some success signing older players, but most of the time it didn’t work

Davey Lopes with the Cubs in 1984 | Getty Images Justin Turner, formerly a very good player, had been awful for the Cubs until his walkoff hit Tuesday. How have similar Cubs acquisitions worked out? Justin Turner had struggled all year until he hit his stunning walkoff double Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field. That prompted me to take a look back at Cubs history to see what happened when th...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Mets series preview

Brad Mills-Imagn Images The Cubs have a quick one-series road trip to New York. The Cubs have hung in there over their first 38 games, with a 22-16 record while playing only one team — the Pirates — that is currently under .500. (Yes, even the A’s, who the Cubs swept, are 20-18 and only two games out of first place in the AL West.) They’ve got one more good team to face, the Mets this week...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The Braves have a chance to get back at one of their tormentors from earlier this season. It’s easier said than done! Earlier this month, the Atlanta Braves visited Los Angeles looking for any type of way to get their season going in a positive direction after they had gone 0-for-4 in San Diego to kick off the season. As we all know, that ended up not ...2025
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month

Photo by Suzanna Mitchell/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Jung Hoo Lee, Tyler Mahle highlight baseball’s biggest surprises. There’s nothing like the start of a new baseball season. The soothing, familiar sounds of the crack of the bat and a fastball burying itself in a catcher’s mitt. The contagious optimism found in all 30 clubhouses, from the defending champions to the last-place club ...2025
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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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"The staff here at Battery Power will share our predictions with y’all later on and if you haven’t voted in our survey asking where you think the Braves will finish in the NL East this season, you’ve still got a chance for the time being."

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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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"Mets NL East faves?"

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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"

• NL East Notes: Montas, Blackburn, Manaea, Nola, Finnegan
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• Ronald Acuña, Jr. returns as Braves host Padres - and here’s how you can watch
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• Series Preview: Rays vs Blue Jays

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Forty-three games down, one-hundred nineteen to go THE CITRUS SERIES HAS ARRIVED! The Tampa Bay Rays are taking their talents to South Beach where they’ll take on the Miami Marlins in a three game set. The Marlins enjoyed an off day on Thursday and enter play with a record of 16-26, putting them 11 games back of the New York Mets and in...2025
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• The Cubs have had some success signing older players, but most of the time it didn’t work
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• Braves host Nationals - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Atlanta and Washington face off for the first time this season. The Atlanta Braves return home for a four-game series against the Washington Nationals - the first of two match-ups between the teams in next 10 days. Both clubs are in the middle-of-the-pack in the NL East and will be facing each other for the first time this year....2025
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• Series Preview: Rays vs Phillies

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Thirty-four games down, one-hundred twenty-eight to go The Tampa Bay Rays snapped out of a four game losing streak and took two out of three against the New York Yankees over the weekend. Entering play on Tuesday, the Rays are now 16-18, sitting in third place in the AL East and are 2.5 games back of the Yankees for the division lead. The Philadelphia Phillies co...2025
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• Braves look to exact revenge on the Dodgers - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Atlanta welcomes in some of the biggest stars in the game with refrains of, “Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA!” The Atlanta Braves return home to Truist Park to start the month of May with revenge on their minds as they clash with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After wrapping up an April with a 14-16 record after a 4-2 road trip to end of the month, the Braves were a...2025
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Phillies series preview

Photo by Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images At last, a team the Cubs haven’t seen yet this year. Hi there, new 2025 Cubs opponent! The Cubs have spent the entire year to date, 26 games, traversing the two West divisions — 20 games against three NL West teams and six against two AL West teams. Now, a team from the NL East arrives at Wrigley Field. The Phillies were supposed to b...2025
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• Spoiler alert: Here’s how the 2025 Braves season will play out

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Past results may not be indicative of future performance, but don’t doubt the Battery Power Almanac. There’s that meme. You know the one. “What a week, huh?” “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.” The 2025 Atlanta Braves regular season isn’t even a month old and it’s already been a long season. The lack of free agent signings to bolster the pit...2025
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• Is the NL East going to get away from the Braves?
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 8
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month
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• Braves continue to benefit from home cooking

Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images While this wasn’t another sweep, it was still another series win for the Braves, who appear to have gotten things on track — in Cobb County, at least. The Atlanta Braves were riding high heading into the second half of their six-game homestand. They swept the Twins while taking advantage of the fact that Minnesota had been scuffling to start the ...2025
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• Spoiler alert: Here’s how the 2025 Braves season will play out
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• Searching for optimism after a 1-8 start

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s been brutal so far, but the core of the Braves offense has been more unlucky than bad. There almost aren’t any words left to describe how disastrous the start of the season has been for the Atlanta Braves. After playing just nine games, they’re already six back in their own division. Suffice it to say, the baseball gods showe...2025
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• A tough series awaits for Atlanta against the Phillies

Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images Two teams that have gotten off to polar opposite starts are set to square off in Cobb County this week. Will the Braves rise up to the challenge of their rivals? The Atlanta Braves have now had a couple of off days to lick their wounds following a letdown loss to the Marlins and a rain delay that helped them avoid Sandy Alcantara. That’s the good news — ...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row staff offers their season predictions

Photo by Rachel O’Driscoll/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images How many games will the Rockies win in 2025? Who will take home hardware around baseball? It’s that time of year again...Purple Row staff predictions! The Rockies start their 162-game quest tonight in sunny Tampa, FL at Tropicana George M. Steinbrenner Field as they take on the Tampa Bay Rays, who are playing their season in the sp...2025
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• NL East Notes: Young, Mauricio, Edwards
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Mets series preview
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets Game Thread

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals (12-14) are taking on their NL East Rival New York Mets (18-8) Coming off of back-to-back series wins, Washington has performed well as of late. Another stellar performance from Jake Irvin on Friday prevailed Washington to another close victory. Washington has won five of their last seven and looks to add to their momentum against one of th...2025
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• Spoiler alert: Here’s how the 2025 Braves season will play out
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• A tough series awaits for Atlanta against the Phillies
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• Battery Power 2025 Opening Day Roundtable: Part Two

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images As the whole “Part One” thing implied, we weren’t done dishing out the takes on Monday. We’ve got some more takes ready for you! This is the second part of our two-part Opening Day roundtable concerning our beloved Atlanta Braves. If you missed the first one, click this link so you can catch up. For now, we won’t waste any more of your time so let’s hop ...2025
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• So, how exactly does Truist Park play?

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Park is a Factor I have a toddler. Toddlers love jungle gyms. And my toddler is an active toddler, even considering toddlers are active. So we go looking for jungle gyms, especially when the weather is warmer. We live in a decent area, but our decent area is in the middle of a number of like fancy areas. And those fancy areas pay high...2025
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• PECOTA gives 2025 Braves second-best World Series odds

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images PECOTA hates a lot of teams most years. The 2025 Braves aren’t one of them Baseball Prospectus’s annual PECOTA projections have been unveiled and once again, the Atlanta Braves are projected to have a very good season according to the model. While PECOTA’s projection for Atlanta in 2025 isn’t as rosy as it was in 2024, it’s still rosy eno...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Three left standing

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Roki Sasaki nears a decision and there are consequences. The international amateur market opens today. What’s up with Alex Bregman? And other news from around baseball. Good morning. I think we’re all familiar with Roki Sasaki narrowing his decision to three teams on Monday by now. But the fallout from that continues. This came out before Sasaki’s Monday an...2025
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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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• Preseason Prep - February 18, 2025
Cardinals: Changing of the guard at catcher - two viable fantasy options? It was announced during the offseason that veteran catcher Willson Contreras will be making the switch from Catcher to First Base full time. Contreras has delivered 10+ home runs every year (other then 2020) while his career .814 OPS has made him a valuable commodity behind the plate. I love the switch here from a fantasy ...2025
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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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• Is the NL East going to get away from the Braves?
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• Ronald Acuña, Jr. returns as Braves host Padres - and here’s how you can watch
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• Taking a look at the Atlanta Braves with Demetrius Bell of Battery Power
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• Washington Nationals vs Atlanta Braves Series Preview
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• MLB Week 7 Hot or Not: A week of epic walk-offs and go-ahead games!
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 8
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• The Cubs have had some success signing older players, but most of the time it didn’t work
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• Starter Spotlight: Don’t Peter Out, Son!

5-12-2025 – By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on X With the Pirates on the road again, heading to Queens to face the NL East-leading Mets, they’ll see starting pitcher David Peterson, who is off to a strong start to his 2025 campaign. After breaking out last year with a 2.90 ERA over 121 innings of work –Continue reading "Starter Spotlight: Don’t Peter Out, Son!"...2025
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• Braves host Nationals - and here’s how you can watch
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• Spoiler alert: Here’s how the 2025 Braves season will play out
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• Braves Reacts Survey Results: Braves fans overwhelmingly believe Atlanta will win NL east

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images The results are in from our poll from earlier this week and Braves fans are feeling pretty confident heading into the 2025 season. The results are in from the SB Nation Reacts survey that we ran earlier this week. In that poll, we asked y’all where you think that the Atlanta Braves will finish the 2025 season in the NL East standings. Whi...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: Miami Marlins

Photo by Jasen Vinlove/Miami Marlins/Getty Images Well, at least Sandy Alcantara’s back, because a lot of this roster looks bad. Ah, the Miami Marlins. Whether they’re serving in their usual position at-or-near the bottom of the NL East or they’re shocking the baseball world with an appearance (or even a deep run) in October, this is a team that’s spent most of its existence with one eye s...2025
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• 5 things for Braves fans to get excited about for 2025

Photo by Casey Sykes/Getty Images Which aspects of Braves baseball are you looking forward to most this year? Two things can be true at once. The Atlanta Braves had a very disappointing offseason that included a shocking and, in my opinion, egregious decision to duck under the luxury tax instead of adding around their core in the middle of a World Series window. But, despite this, the Bra...2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Diving into 5 more projections before the Braves first spring training game. For part one, click here. Baseball is a beautiful, wonderful, stupid sport. It’s famously the most random major sport in the US, and it doesn’t take much searching to find numerous examples of its unpredictability. Chris Sale went 18-3 in 2024 as he domi...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 18, 2025
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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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• The time for nervousness is over and the time for confidence is here for the Braves
Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images They've got the tangibles. They've got the intangibles. 2023 should be a fun season of baseball in Atlanta, so let's act like it! The Atlanta Braves quite famously won 101 games last season, with wins No. 98, 99, and 100 forming a sweep over the New York Mets to all-but-clinch the 2022 NL East title. It took overcoming an incredibly slo...2023
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