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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: Ian Anderson, Jesse Chavez, Spencer Strider, more

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It was a day for good-byes and hello agains. The Braves continued to finalize their Opening Day roster while adding depth to the organization when it comes to pitching on Sunday. Ian Anderson was traded to the Angels for Jose Suarez, while the Braves signed familiar face Jesse Chavez to a minor league deal. Moving Anderson was likely u...2025
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• Jesse Chavez is back! Also, Braves tie Orioles 5-5

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Uncle Jesse makes his (spring) Braves return as the Braves add yet another tie to their Grapefruit League record Listen, Jesse Chavez is back, and that’s all that matters. We ticked off a Braves Bingo square already. Hey, stop asking how he did. HE’S BACK, AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS. Spencer Strider was the biggest (non-Jesse) news of the day, making hi...2025
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• Sunday spring training game thread

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images The second tune-up of spring training for Spencer Strider Today’s an interesting day for Atlanta Braves spring training baseball for multiple reasons. The first of which is that Spencer Strider is getting the ball once again and it’s always a joy to watch this fella pitch the baseball. Here’s the lineup for today: The lineup itself looks very, very likely to...2025
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• If I said Braves had a beautiful roster, are you willing to fight me?

Photo by Scott Audette/MLB Photos via Getty Images Despite a pretty quiet offseason, the Braves are looking good heading into Opening Day I have to say even after the culling of Travis d’Arnaud and a few relievers from last season, the Braves seem poised to win 90-plus games this season. Their starting five appears to be 2024 Cy Young winner Chris Sale, 25-year-old Spencer Schwellenbach of...2025
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• Braves News: Sean Murphy’s return, Reynaldo Lopez’ struggles, more

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday Well we’re nearly there: Opening Day. Only three Spring Training games remain and multiple pitchers have already gone through their final tune-up. While things have mostly gone well in spring, with a few close calls on injuries and a moderate injury to Sean Murphy, nobody needed Tommy John and that is a win in my book. ...2025
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• Jesse Chavez is back! Also, Braves tie Orioles 5-5
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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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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Bullpen

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Atlanta’s bullpen has been a source of strength and stability over the past couple of years, but there’s more uncertainty for their relief corps in 2025. In the past two years combined, Atlanta Braves relievers rank in the top five in ERA (fifth), FIP (second), K% (first), and BB% (third). It’s been undeniably one of the top bullpens in baseball ever...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Starting Pitching

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images This rotation has the potential to be brilliant. It also has the potential to have a collective rapid unscheduled disassembly. Sure hope it’s the former! The starting rotation in 2025 for the Atlanta Braves figures to be incredibly fascinating. It’s probably the positional unit on this team with the biggest possible variance of results...2025
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• Braves News: Spencer Strider Sensational, Chris Sale Opening Day Starter, James McCann, more

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A busy Monday for the Braves Monday was a busy day for the Braves. Spencer Strider made his Spring debut and was absolutely dominant, a performance better than anyone could have imagined. While that may have been unexpected, Atlanta confirmed the expected in naming Chris Sale the 2025 Opening Day starter. And that was just in the ...2025
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• Spencer Strider superb in spring training debut

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images The Braves fell to the Red Sox, but the story was Strider looking electric and healthy. Spencer Strider made his long awaited spring debut with the Atlanta Braves on Monday afternoon and was superb against the Red Sox, striking out six batters over 2.2 innings. Strider did not give up a hit and seldom missed out of the strike zone. Boston mostly had backups and p...2025
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• Braves' Spencer Strider strikes out six in three innings in first start since UCL surgery as MLB return looms

Monday's start was Strider's first game action since April 5, 2024...2025
• Braves News: Spencer Strider, Camp Cuts, Breakout Game, More

Photo by Scott Audette/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta’ ace takes his place on the mound once more. Sunday was a busy day on many fronts for the Braves, from the announcement of exciting returns to new names to follow throughout 2025. Here are the main happenings from today... Braves News Spencer Strider will make his much anticipated debut on Monday, his first appearance since he le...2025
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"Braves' Spencer Strider strikes out six in three innings in first start since UCL surgery as MLB return looms"

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"The Braves will be looking for Fried to front their rotation along with Spencer Strider again in 2024."

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"Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Braves claim series win over the Rangers with come from behind win In the rubber match of the series, and the final game of what has proven to be a difficult road trip, the Atlanta Braves sent their ace Spencer Strider to the bump."

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"The Atlanta Braves have signed rookie right-hander Spencer Strider to a six-year contract worth $75 million through the 2028 season, the team announced Monday."

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"The Braves are set to promote right-handed pitching prospect Spencer Strider to the Majors this weekend, as first reported by Eric Cole of Talking Chop."

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"We’ll track today’s slate of signings from the 2020 amateur draft here… The Braves agreed to a full-slot deal with fourth-round pick Spencer Strider, tweets MLB."

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• Preseason Prep - March 14, 2025
Injury Updates Bobby Witt Jr, SS, Royals Bobby Witt was recently hit in the forearm with a pitch in Spring Training and left the game. After getting tested, it was determined it was nothing serious, just a bruise. This is a relief for any fantasy manager who has already drafted, as they likely had to use a top-three overall pick on him. He is coming off of a 32 home run, 31 stolen base season whi...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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• Should the Braves go to the desert in search of pitching help?

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images I Want a Diamondback, Diamondback, Diiiamoondback Starting Pitcher (Just One of Theeeem) As you might’ve figured out by now, I have a toddler. He’s wonderful. But he’s also busy. And he’s not sleeping at the moment, and he’s never been a great sleeper. It can be a nasty combo sometimes. As many other parents have probably experienced, this means you don’t...2025
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• Spring Training Game Thread #7: Milwaukee Brewers (2-4) vs. Kansas City Royals (4-1)

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images The Brewers host the Kansas City Royals at American Family Fields of Phoenix on Thursday afternoon in the first Spring Training game featured on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin The Brewers and Royals will meet for the first time this spring on Thursday afternoon, previewing the matchup that the Brewers will have for their home opener on March 31st. Aaron Civale tak...2025
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• Braves bullpen strategy so far this winter has been more about quantity

Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK The Braves have attacked their bullpen questions this off-season by embracing the variance. When it was announced on November 4th that Joe Jimenez underwent surgery to repair cartilage damage in his left knee and that he would miss most (maybe all) of the 2025 season, it became crystal clear the Atlanta Braves would be making a significant add...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 16, 2025
Wyatt Langford Langford came into the 2024 season with quite a fair bit of hype, as the former No. 4 overall pick effectively skipped the minor leagues and was thrusted into a starter role immediately. He got off to a slow start, posting just an 80 wRC+ in March/April. His May was shortened due to an injury, before he bounced back in June and posted a 151 wRC+ and.380 wOBA across 106 PAs. Across t...2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part One

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images A local baseball hobbyist’s hunch on various Braves-related projections I’m no data scientist. I don’t know how to code. There are brilliant, world-class mathematicians who have spent decades developing and honing projection systems, and those systems are well-respected by many of baseball’s brightest minds. These systems are accounting fo...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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• What’s left for the Braves after signing Jurickson Profar?

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images A big addition leaves the Braves with a few more holes to fill before spring training. The Atlanta Braves finally — finally! — made an offseason splash on Thursday, signing outfielder Jurickson Profar to a three-year, $42 million deal. Profar solidifies the Braves’ outfield picture heading into 2025, where he could form one of the game’s top outfields ...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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• Charlie Morton retiring? Maybe not, per report.

Photo by Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The veteran hurling could be mulling playing at least one more season. Charlie Morton could be open to returning to the mound in 2025. MLB.com’s Mark Bowman, in his article published earlier today, suggests that the 17-year veteran - who will turn 41 in less than two weeks - could look to continue pitching in 2025. Morton, who debuted...2024
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• Recap: Vines’ solid start and late burst from the offense pushes Braves past Astros 6-1.

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports Braves went into Houston with a rookie starter and took the first game of their 3-game series. Darius Vines made a good impression with his first start of 2024, while the offense showed up late and the bullpen held things down in the Braves 6-2 win over Houston. The Braves are still trying to get their rotation reset after losing Spencer Strider to season-endin...2024
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• Braves lock up Strider with 6-year, $75M deal

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• Atlanta Braves’ Michael Harris wins National League Rookie of the Year
Michael Harris of the Atlanta Braves has been named the 2022 Rookie of the Year for the National League! His Braves teammate, Spencer Strider, finished second while Brendan Donovan tried his best. Congratulations to @MoneyyyMikeee on being named the 2022 National League Rookie of the Year!#ForTheA pic.twitter.com/w6JtMWJTzK — Atlanta Braves (@Braves) November 15, 2022 Usually, […] Atla...2022
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• Braves fight back for 6-5 win over the Rangers
Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Braves claim series win over the Rangers with come from behind win In the rubber match of the series, and the final game of what has proven to be a difficult road trip, the Atlanta Braves sent their ace Spencer Strider to the bump. The Rangers also sent out their ace, in Nathan Eovaldi, who has stepped up in the absence of Jacob Degrom. In his last three s...2023
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• Braves reach 100 wins with 8-5 victory over Nationals

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Atlanta has won 100 games in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2002 and 2003. A four-run fourth inning helped propel the Atlanta Braves to their 100th win of the season with an 8-5 victory over the Washington Nationals. Spencer Strider allowed a leadoff double to CJ Abrams, but then retired the next six hitters in a row to get through the...2023
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• Fried and Strider both have scoreless outings as Braves sweep split squad games
Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Matt Olson, Austin Riley and Michael Harris II each went deep as well. Simply put, it was exactly what you want to see from your regulars during spring training Both Max Fried and Spencer Strider had a productive day on the mound in their respective outings. The top two pitchers in Atlanta’s rotation each racked up three scoreless innings as the Braves f...2023
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• Spencer Strider looks to flame the Nationals in game 2
Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves look to grab another win to start the season behind their young flamethrower. After a pyrrhic victory on Opening Day that cost the Braves a few weeks of Max Fried, due to hamstring issues, the Braves have their ace 1b on the mound for game 2. While Strider doesn’t have the track record that Max does, he was simply one of ...2023
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• Spencer Strider deals as Braves beat Twins 4-1
Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Strider tossed seven scoreless innings and Atlanta’s offense came alive late. Spencer Strider turned in a strong performance and Ronald Acuña Jr. hit his 17th home run of the season to help the Atlanta Braves to a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Twins. Strider pitched out of some immediate trouble in the first. He allowed a leadoff single to Edouard Julien ...2023
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• Justin Steele deserves Cy Young Award consideration

Justin Steele after ending the seventh inning with a strike out on Labor Day | Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images What the Cubs lefty has done this season is remarkable There are a lot of heroes in this Cubs season so far. Cody Bellinger is doing an excellent impersonation of his MVP season and will almost certainly be the NL Comeback Player of the Year after putting up a .320/.363/.549 sl...2023
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part One
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• Projecting the 2025 Braves Opening Day roster

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Not one, but two, different options for Atlanta’s first 26-man roster of the 2025 season. Atlanta Braves full-squad workouts begin one month from today, but much to the chagrin of Braves fandom, the organization has been stunningly quiet this offseason when to comes to making moves that - on the surface - move the needle on the quality of...2025
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• Jesse Chavez is back! Also, Braves tie Orioles 5-5
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• Sunday spring training game thread
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• Braves News: Roster cuts, Craig Kimbrel, starting rotation, more

Photo by Scott Audette/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday Well Spencer Schwellenbach was absolutely dominant for 6 innings against a Yankees lineup that included Aaron Judge, as he put up 10 strikeouts and only 1 walk in a scoreless outing. With Chris Sale coming off a Cy Young campaign and looking the part, Spencer Schwellenbach looking like a guy who...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves Preseason Top 30 Prospects: Honorable Mentions

Photo by Samuel Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves have started to build out depth in the system, with multiple top 30 honorable mentions with helium heading into 2025 The long offseason is finally drawing to its close, with football fans outside of Kansas City and Pennsylvania begging for better days to look forward to. Well, if you like the Atlanta Braves you should be in ...2025
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• Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Did the Braves wiggle out of their comfort zone? Does it matter? I considered titling this post, “So Profar, So Good,” but, that seemed to make little sense at this juncture, and that was a headline-in-the-sand I’m not willing to cross at this point. Did the Atlanta Braves do well by signing Jurickson Profar to a three-year, $42 million de...2025
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• A goodbye to Charlie Morton

Dale Zanine-Imagn Images Charlie Morton’s 4-year run in Atlanta has officially ended. Charlie Morton and the Atlanta Braves ended their 4-year partnership over the weekend, with Morton signing a 1-year $15M contract with the Baltimore Orioles. It wasn’t certain Morton was going to pitch at all in 2025, with plenty of speculation all throughout last season that 2024 might’ve been his swan ...2025
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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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