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• Charged Battery
The Mets move into first place in the NL East thanks to their battery helping to shutout the Athletics 8-0. Kodai Senga reminds the Mets of what they missed last season as he records seven innings, allowing four hits and lowering his ERA to 1.06. Luis Torrens caught the game and knocked out three hits, […]...2025
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• Washington Nationals need to make changes to the Bullpen

Brad Mills-Imagn Images After yet another implosion, the status quo is not acceptable in the Nationals bullpen Today’s loss might have been the most frustrating of the season for the Washington Nationals. It had a lot of familiar patterns to other Nationals losses. There were outs on the base paths, including an inexplicable stolen base attempt by Keibert Ruiz. However, the biggest issue i...2025
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• Nationals vs. Marlins odds, prediction: Take road team in NL East battle

Trevor Williams will lead the visiting Nationals past the Marlins on Saturday afternoon, Stitches predicts....2025
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• Series Preview: Rays vs Braves

Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images Twelve games down, one-hundred fifty to go We are now two weeks into the 2025 season and the Rays will now take on the Atlanta Braves in a three game series in Tampa. The Braves are coming off a 2024 season in which they tied for second in the National League East with a 89-73 record, which was good enough to get them one of the Wild Card spots in the postseason, ...2025
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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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• Series Preview: Rays vs Braves
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• Searching for optimism after a 1-8 start
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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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• 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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• Keith Law predicts Braves will win 2025 World Series

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images “Yeah, me too,” said the local blogger Folks, Opening Day is tomorrow. To. Morr. Ow. As such, we’re starting to get predictions flooding in from everybody who’s bold enough to try to call how arguably the most unpredictable sport in North America is going to shake out from now all the way until October. The staff here at Battery Power wi...2025
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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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• Battery Power 2025 Opening Day Roundtable: Part One

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images You want takes? We’ve got takes. Plenty of ‘em, actually. It’s certainly been a while since we did one of these, right? Well, with Opening Day happening in just a few days time, I figured that this was as good of a time as any to bring it back and give y’all a taste of what’s on our minds as the season gets set to start. We’ve got a handful of our staf...2025
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• Braves News: Nathan Wiles acquisition, major league roster selections, and more

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves continue to make moves, most recently acquiring right-hander Nathan Wiles from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for cash considerations. The Tampa Bay Rays have optioned RHP Hunter Bigge and RHP Eric Orze to Triple-A Durham. Additionally, RHP Nathan Wiles has been traded to the...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"

• The Braves open their home schedule against Marlins this weekend and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves look to reel in some win against Miami at Truist Park. The Atlanta Braves come home to Truist Park to open their regular season with a three-game set against their NL East rival Miami Marlins. After a horrendous seven-game road trip against the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers, the Braves will hope the magical elixir of home cooking and...2025
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• San Diego sweeps Atlanta in opening series

Nick Pivetta | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Nick Pivetta dominant in Padres debut, allows one hit over seven innings Nick Pivetta made his first regular season start as a member of the San Diego Padres and led his team to a sweep of the Atlanta Braves with a 5-0 win at Petco Park, Sunday. Pivetta worked well with catcher Elias Diaz and was efficient against an Atlanta lineup that ...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row staff offers their season predictions
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• Predictions 2025: Braves will take the cake

Back on top: The Braves will win their second World Series in the past five years. | Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images South Siders will finish 51-111, according to one writer’s predictions We find ourselves here once again, approaching a season where not many good things are expected to happen. Somehow, the White Sox have topped themselves, as although the outlook heading in...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Battery Power 2025 Opening Day Roundtable: Part Two
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• Battery Power 2025 Opening Day Roundtable: Part One
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• Braves News: Nathan Wiles acquisition, major league roster selections, and more
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: Atlanta Braves

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Spoiler alert: The Atlanta Braves blogger believes that the Atlanta Braves are going to be good this season. (Mhm. Just like last year!) Needless to say, 2024 did not go according to plan for the Atlanta Braves. If it had, then we may have been coming into this season with a bunch of gold-tinged merchandise after they had gotten done ...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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• Searching for optimism after a 1-8 start
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• A tough series awaits for Atlanta against the Phillies
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row staff offers their season predictions
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• Braves Reacts Survey Results: Braves fans overwhelmingly believe Atlanta will win NL east
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• The 2025 Royals and MLB predictions thread

Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images How do you see this season going? Yes, I know technically the regular season has begun (thanks Cubs and Dodgers in Japan!) but this is the eve of the start of the season for most teams. This makes it a good time to put our powers of prognostication on the line. Earlier this week we asked readers to give their predictions on the season...2025
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• Keith Law predicts Braves will win 2025 World Series
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• Cubs vs. Braves at Mesa preview, Monday 3/24, 3:05 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Hey, look! An opponent from the NL East comes to Mesa. Monday notes... A BRAVE SPRING: The only previous time these teams have met in preseason exhibitions was in 1962. Details in this FanPost by BCB’s JohnW53. FORMER CUBS IN BRAVES CAMP: Garrett Cooper, Pierce Johnson and Hector Neris. Cooper and Johnson combined to play 13 games with th...2025
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• Battery Power 2025 Opening Day Roundtable: Part One
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
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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
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• So, how exactly does Truist Park play?
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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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• What if the Braves stand pat heading into the regular season?

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images There’s a non-zero chance that the way the Braves look right now is the way they’re going to look once this thing gets rockin’-and-rollin’ again in late-March. So here we are, folks: It’s January and the biggest move of the offseason for the Atlanta Braves has been the one where they stick their hand up and wave “bye-bye” to to a bunc...2025
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• Braves News: Eddy Alvarez deal, MLB Network’s “Top 10 Right Now,” and more

John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. Per the transaction log, the Atlanta Braves have added second baseman Eddy Alvarez on a minor league deal. The 34-year-old has seen playing time with NL East foes New York Mets and Miami Marlins, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers. As for the minors, he has logged 843 games, with a .279 career batting average and a...2025
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• Editorial: If the Nationals win the MASN case, they must splash the cash

Brad Mills-Imagn Images A win for the Nationals should mean a win for fans In the midst of another relatively cheap offseason for the Washington Nationals, a development came this week in the ongoing MASN case that could change the teams future. According to Matt Weyrich of the Baltimore Sun, the Nationals filed a petition to uphold a previous MLB committee ruling that stated the Orioles ...2025
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• Braves set to continue homestand with rematch against the Brewers

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Braves will take on the Brewers at Truist Park starting Tuesday in a rematch of last week’s three-game series. The Atlanta Braves will continue their homestand Tuesday when they begin a three-game series against the NL Central leading Milwaukee Brewers. Atlanta scored a series win in Milwaukee by taking two of the three games as part of a stretch whe...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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• Mets NL East faves?
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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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• Nationals vs. Marlins odds, prediction: Take road team in NL East battle
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• Searching for optimism after a 1-8 start
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• Dodgers @ Phillies April 4, 2025: First road trip of the season begins in Philadelphia
(Via) The Dodgers (8-0) finished up their third series of the year in yet another sweep, this time against the Atlanta Braves (0-7), doing extreme damage to Atlanta’s playoff hopes early in the year. The Braves are expected to be in one of the tightest division races in baseball in the NL East, and starting …...2025
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• The Braves open their home schedule against Marlins this weekend and here’s how you can watch
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• San Diego sweeps Atlanta in opening series
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• Washington Nationals vs Philadelphia Phillies Game Thread

Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images Follow along as we discuss an NL East matchup between the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies After falling to the reigning NL East champs on Thursday, Washington will be fighting to pick up their first win of the season. MacKenzie Gore dominated in his first start, going six innings of thirteen strikeout, shutout baseball, however the Washington offe...2025
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• Poll: Who Will Win The NL East?
Opening Day has finally arrived, and teams all around the league are gearing up for another pennant chase in hopes of being crowned this year’s World Series champion. Of course, there’s still another seven months to go before someone raises the Commissioner’s Trophy. Until the playoffs begin, teams will be focused on a smaller goal:…...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row staff offers their season predictions
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• Chris Sale looks to start Braves season on a high note on Opening Day against Padres

Orlando Ramirez-Imagn Images It’s Opening Day and the Braves have the defending NL Cy Young Award winner starting for them today. Let’s get it. Chris Sale is set to start on Opening Day for the sixth time in what is proving to be an illustrious career. This’ll be the first time that he’ll be doing so for the Atlanta Braves, as the NL East stalwarts will be heading out West to start their s...2025
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• Braves Reacts Survey Results: Braves fans overwhelmingly believe Atlanta will win NL east
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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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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• NL East Notes: Marlins, Givens, Acuna, Mets, Red Sox
Mychal Givens was a popular figure in trade speculation before the Rockies acquired him from the Orioles earlier today, and The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal (Twitter link) reports that the Marlins were one of the clubs who also had an interest in Givens’ services. With Givens now off the board, the Fish will continue to pursue…...2020
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