NL East rumors, news

NL East news, rumors

  • Phillies vs. Braves time, odds, how to watch, TV channel, live stream with MLB Opening Day game pushed back
    • Phillies vs. Braves time, odds, how to watch, TV channel, live stream with MLB Opening Day game pushed back
    The NL East rivals square off to open the year...2024
  • How to watch Atlanta Braves games in 2024: Live stream, TV channel, watch baseball online as season begins
    • How to watch Atlanta Braves games in 2024: Live stream, TV channel, watch baseball online as season begins
    The Atlanta Braves are looking for another NL East title and more in 2024...2024
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  • Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination
    • 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
  • • Division Preview, 2024 NL East
    The division previews continue with the NL East. To help with evaluations, a crude runs created per game is calculated from Musings Marcels projections for both batters and pitchers. I then average these for the core of the team. The nine position players, the five starting pitchers, and the closer. I weight the pitchers as […]...2024
  • Sox Populi Podcast 174 — 2024 Season Predictions!
    • Sox Populi Podcast 174 — 2024 Season Predictions!
    Chrystal O’Keefe, Dante Jones, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Hannah LaMotta and Brett Ballantini discuss the coming season, including consensus and controversial picks It’s that time of year again, and Dante Jones, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Chrystal O’Keefe and Hannah La Motta join Brett Ballantini to address the White Sox and Major League Baseball outlook for 2024: White Sox: Universal last-place club...2024
  • Battery Power Podcast: The 2024 season is upon us
    • Battery Power Podcast: The 2024 season is upon us
    Photo by Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The 2024 MLB season is technically underway after a pair of games in South Korea earlier this month. However, Opening Day arrives for most of the sport on Thursday, March 28, and that includes the Atlanta Braves In Episode 441 of the Battery Power Podcast, BP’s Brad Rowland and Scott Coleman get together for a final preview of the upc...2024
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NL East injury and suspension

  • • Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination
    2024
  • Dodgers will live up to the hype
    • 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: Atlanta Braves
    • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
    Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves enter the 2024 season as the favorite in the National League, but, for better or worse, will ultimately be defined by their postseason success or lack thereof. (Yes, we’re really doing this.) The Atlanta Braves are coming off of a banner 2023 season that saw them set numerous offensive records on their way to an MLB-best 104 wins. Unfortunatel...2024
  • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
    • 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
  • Braves News: Spencer Strider to start Opening Day, left-handed pitching depth, and more
    • Braves News: Spencer Strider to start Opening Day, left-handed pitching depth, and more
    Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. With Opening Day just around the corner, the Atlanta Braves are shaping up the roster and preparing to begin the season with a series against the NL East rivals. The club announced Tuesday that right-hander Spencer Strider will start Opening Day on March 28 against the Philadelphia Phillies. Spencer Strider in Phill...2024
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  • 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results
    • 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
  • 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets
    • 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 Organizational Depth Preview: Outfielders
    • Braves Organizational Depth Preview: Outfielders
    Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Atlanta has their major league outfield locked down for the foreseeable future, giving their toolsy prospects at the lower level some time to develop The Atlanta Braves have done quite a bit of good with their outfield over the past few years, locking two young stars into long term deals. Outfield is the area that has suffered most from...2024
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  • Looking back on the 1994 Atlanta Braves season that was and wasn’t
    • Looking back on the 1994 Atlanta Braves season that was and wasn’t
    Often lost in the celebration of Atlanta’s 14 division crowns from 1991 though 2005 is the one they didn’t win - but didn’t count - in 1994. After the Boston Braves won the 1914 World Series, earning the moniker the “Miracle Braves” in the process after going 68-19 in their final 87 games to win the National League, the Braves franchise only made five appearances in the postseason until 1991. Fiv...2024
  • • NL East Notes: Alcantara, Robles, McNeil
    Injured Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara took a major step forward in his rehab from Tommy John surgery today, as The Miami Herald’s Jordan McPherson notes that the right-hander played catch this afternoon, marking the first time he’s thrown a baseball since going under the knife back in October. While that still leaves Alcantara a long…...2024

NL East lifestyle

  • • 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
    2015
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Timeline

  • 2024
    "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."

  • 2023
    "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."

  • 2022
    "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."

  • 2021
    "Javier Báez strikes out five times as Mets' NL East lead takes another hit with loss to Marlins"

  • 2020
    "MLB shuts down Marlins and Phillies, revises schedule for NL East, AL East teams amid COVID-19 outbreak"

  • 2019
    "Culberson, 30, played a big role for the Atlanta organization in its two consecutive NL East title years,…"

  • 2018
    "NL East Notes: Yelich, Mets, Arrieta, Rizzo"

  • 2017
    "Phils slow Nats' march to NL East title; No. is 2"

  • 2016
    "Mets NL East faves?"

  • 2015
    "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."

  • 2014
    "Bryce Harper Celebrates in Custom Firemans Helmet After Nationals Clinch NL East"

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NL East trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination
    2024
  • 2024 NL West Preview: The Dodgers have loaded up for October
    • 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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  • • Dodgers will live up to the hype
    2024
  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
    2024
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  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
    2024
  • • 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results
    2024
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  • • 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets
    2024
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  • • Braves Organizational Depth Preview: Outfielders
    2024
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  • Eddie Rosario signing split contract with Nationals, per report
    • Eddie Rosario signing split contract with Nationals, per report
    Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Eddie Rosario will reportedly be sticking around the NL East. Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Eddie Rosario will be sticking around the NL East. Rosario has reportedly agreed to a split contract with the Washington Nationals that will pay him up to $4 million. El Extra Base’s Daniel Alvarez-Montes had the original report. The Washing...2024
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  • Josh Donaldson Announces Retirement from Baseball
    • Josh Donaldson Announces Retirement from Baseball
    Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports The former Brave and AL MVP has officially called it a career. Veteran Third Baseman Josh Donaldson announced his retirement from the game of baseball on Monday via “The Mayor’s Office” Podcast with former MLB player Sean Casey: Today on The Mayor’s Office, former MVP Josh Donaldson steps inside with an exclusive interview to announce his retirement. @bring...2024

NL East stats and results

  • The 2024 MLB season predictions thread
    • The 2024 MLB season predictions thread
    Photo by George Rose/Getty Images You can’t predict ball! With the baseball season upon us, it’s prediction time! Last week we asked readers to give their predictions on the season, and over 200 of you responded with your selections. Here are the results, plus the selections of our current and former writers. You can also review all of our predictions from last year. Reader vote Royals wi...2024
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  • • 2024 NL West Preview: The Dodgers have loaded up for October
    2024
  • SB Nation Reacts: Voters pick the Cubs to win the NL Central
    • SB Nation Reacts: Voters pick the Cubs to win the NL Central
    Getty Images And other results from the latest survey. Many BCB readers have said they think the Cubs should be the favorite to win the NL Central in 2024. I’m among those, largely because the Cubs have improved and the rest of their division rivals have not. The results from the latest SB Nation Reacts survey show that fans across MLB agree with that: Personally, I’m thinki...2024
  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
    2024
  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
    2024
  • • 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results
    2024
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  • • 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets
    2024
  • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Washington Nationals
    • 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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  • • Looking back on the 1994 Atlanta Braves season that was and wasn’t
    2024
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  • 2024 Cubs: Know your enemy, NL East
    • 2024 Cubs: Know your enemy, NL East
    Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images Some teams on the upside here, some not. The Cubs might have made the postseason easily in 2023 if they had done better vs. NL East teams. Overall they were 11-20 vs. the NL East (Braves, 2-4; Marlins, 2-4; Mets, 3-3; Phillies, 1-5 and Nationals, 3-4). Here’s hoping for better results in 2024. Atlanta Braves Key departures: Eddie Rosario, Brad Hand, Mike ...2024

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  • Washington Nationals news & notes: Futures Game GameThread + more…
    • 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
    2024
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  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
    2024
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  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Washington Nationals
    2024
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  • • Looking back on the 1994 Atlanta Braves season that was and wasn’t
    2024
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  • Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray, Angel Hernandez; Gaining experience + more...
    • Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray, Angel Hernandez; Gaining experience + more...
    Notes and quotes on the Nationals in West Palm Beach, FL. ROUGH DAY FOR GRAY: Josiah Gray walked two, struck out five, and gave up a run on two hits when he faced the Boston Red Sox in his second start of the spring last weekend. Gray, 26, gave up a run on four hits, with two walks and 10 Ks in his first five innings pitched this spring going into last night’s outing. He talked to reporters after...2024
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  • Ronald Acuna Jr.'s youngest brother reaches verbal agreement with Braves' division rival
    • Ronald Acuna Jr.'s youngest brother reaches verbal agreement with Braves' division rival
    More than half of the teams in the NL East could have a member of the Acuna family playing for them in the 2030s....2024
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  • Who is that guy? (Part 2: White Sox major league deals)
    • Who is that guy? (Part 2: White Sox major league deals)
    Erick Fedde had a terrific 2023 season ... in the KBO. | Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The South Siders have brought a million players to camp, so here’s a breakdown of the guys on MLB deals Welcome back! It’s time to go over the guys you might just see on the field this season in a White Sox uniform. roll call ️ pic.twitter.com/WFb2h8hPBj— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) February 16, 202...2024
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  • With great projections comes great responsibility for the Atlanta Braves
    • With great projections comes great responsibility for the Atlanta Braves
    Photo by Casey Sykes/Getty Images Both FanGraphs and PECOTA are actually enamored with the Braves heading into the 2024 season. That only raises the bar for expectations heading into this campaign, as well. The calendar has made its way into February, which means that the countdown to spring training is officially on. That also means that the Opening Day will be here before you know it, so...2024
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  • Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats new & old trying to help club take next step...
    • Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats new & old trying to help club take next step...
    Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ mission in 2024... Nick Senzel told reporters he saw some parallels between what he went through in Cincinnati over the last year, and what he signed on for in the nation’s capital when he agreed on a 1-year/$2M deal with the rebooting Washington Nationals after five seasons with the recently-rebuilding Reds (who’d drafted him 2nd overall in 2016 and for whom he ...2024
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Top NL East news

  • • Mets NL East faves?
    2016
  • • 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
    2015
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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
    2014
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NL East fantasy rankings and news

  • • An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
    2023
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Why Won't Anyone Take a Chance on Yoenis Cespedes?
    2016
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  • • Jason Heyward-Shelby Miller Blockbuster Trade a Win-Win Move Each Had to Make
    2014
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NL East schedule, game

  • • Phillies vs. Braves time, odds, how to watch, TV channel, live stream with MLB Opening Day game pushed back
    2024
  • • Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination
    2024
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  • • Division Preview, 2024 NL East
    2024
  • • Washington Nationals news & notes: Futures Game GameThread + more…
    2024
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  • • The 2024 MLB season predictions thread
    2024
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  • • 2024 NL West Preview: The Dodgers have loaded up for October
    2024
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  • • Dodgers will live up to the hype
    2024
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  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
    2024
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  • • 2024 MLB Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
    2024
  • • 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results
    2024
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NL East rumors, scandals

  • • Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination
    2024
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  • • 2024 NL West Preview: The Dodgers have loaded up for October
    2024
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  • • 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results
    2024
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  • • 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets
    2024
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  • Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Bartolo Colon
    • 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
    • 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
  • • 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
  • • 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
  • • 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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