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• Braves hope to fix their road woes North of the border

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Toronto’s gotten off to a pretty solid start. The Braves are still wandering around in the wilderness — especially on the road. Will they figure it out under the roof? There wasn’t too much positive to take from Atlanta’s trip to Tampa to see the Rays in their temporary home provided by the Yankees. On a micro-level, the offense took advantage of the dim...2025
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• Which pending roster addition will help the Braves the most?

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves will get to full strength, or something resembling it, eventually. Hopefully. First, a digression (can it really be a digression if it comes at the very beginning?): having seen a lot of baseball seasons at this point, my pattern recognition-focused human brain always tries to relate, or contextualize, the current season in the...2025
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• Outside The Confines: What’s wrong with the Braves?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Some trends are emerging to start the season, like the Braves struggling and the Padres’ strong pitching. The minor league parks are looking a little bush league. And other news from MLB. Good morning. After winning their first eight games, the Dodgers are 3-6 and in third place in the National League West. I still wouldn’t bet against them winning 100 g...2025
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• Braves set their sights on the Blue Jays in Toronto - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Kathryn Skeean/MLB Photos via Getty Images It’s a trip north of the border for Atlanta. The Atlanta Braves are heading to Canada for a three-game series against Toronto Blue Jays. Coming off of a disappointing series loss against the Tampa Bay Rays, the Braves need a series victory against the Blue Jays to at least go .500 on the team’s second road trip of the season. The Braves...2025
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• Braves News: Chris Sale, Spencer Strider, More

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Braves Hope to start off week on a good note After the Braves nightmare road trip to start the season, the hope was that returning home and a bit easier stretch of the schedule could lead to some better results. Well over their past 8 games, Atlanta is 4-4, which as better stretch than 0-7. But they still remain 7 games under .500 at 4-11, and though it clea...2025
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• Braves Expected To Activate Spencer Strider On Wednesday
Prior to today’s game against the Rays, the Braves announced that the club had optioned right-hander AJ Smith-Shawver to the minor leagues. In the short-term, the move made room for righty Michael Petersen to join the club. More important than that move, however, is the impending shift in the rotation Smith-Shawver’s departure portends. As noted…...2025
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• Braves set their sights on the Blue Jays in Toronto - and here’s how you can watch
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• Braves' Spencer Strider slated to make MLB return this week as ace comes back from elbow surgery

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• Braves News: Aaron Bummer to bereavement list, series opening loss, and more

David Frerker-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves announced Friday that left-hander Aaron Bummer was unfortunately placed on the bereavement list. To take his spot, the club recalled righty Zach Thompson. The #Braves today recalled RHP Zach Thompson to Atlanta and placed LHP Aaron Bummer on the major league bereavement list.— Atlanta Braves (@Brave...2025
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• Braves News: Marcell Ozuna delivers, Spencer Strider spectacular in Triple-A, and more

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday. After a tie ballgame in the seventh and a rain delay, the Atlanta Braves closed the door on the Philadelphia Phillies in walk-off fashion, 4-2. The game-winner came off the bat of Marcell Ozuna, who blasted a two run home run in the bottom of the 11th. MARCELL WITH A TWO-RUN HOMER TO WALK IT OFF!#BravesCountry pic.twi...2025
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• Spencer Strider could rejoin Braves as early as next week after dominating latest rehab start

Strider is working his way back from UCL surgery last April...2025
• Updates on Spencer Strider, Ronald Acuña, Jr., Craig Kimbrel

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images A bevy of former All-Stars could begin joining the Atlanta’s big league team starting next week Prior to tonight’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies, the Atlanta Braves provided updates on a handful of players whose impact on the big league team could start as soon as next week. Braves manager Brian Snitker provided updates to reporters that injured...2025
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• Strider nears return after 'dominant' rehab start
Spencer Strider struck out 13 batters for Triple-A Gwinnett on Thursday and appears ready to return from elbow surgery to make his Braves season debut next week....2025

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"Braves Expected To Activate Spencer Strider On Wednesday"

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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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• Braves set their sights on the Blue Jays in Toronto - and here’s how you can watch
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• Braves News: Aaron Bummer to bereavement list, series opening loss, and more
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• Braves News: Marcell Ozuna delivers, Spencer Strider spectacular in Triple-A, and more
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• Updates on Spencer Strider, Ronald Acuña, Jr., Craig Kimbrel
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• Braves Minor League Preview 4/10

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Quadzilla returns to the mound for what is likely his final rehab start before re-joining Atlanta. There is a full slate of minor league games today with pitching dominating the headlines (no surprise there!). Over in Gwinnett, Spencer Strider is making what is likely his final rehab start while 2024 draft pick Owen Hackman, and the hard throwing JR Ritchi...2025
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• Reynaldo López injury update

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images The pitcher underwent a procedure today on his right shoulder. Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Reynaldo López will miss most of this season due to a clean-up procedure on his right shoulder he had today in Los Angeles. The good news is that there was no structural damage, based on an update given by Braves manager Brian Snitker to reporters prior to to...2025
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• Was Sunday the most well-timed postponed game you can remember?

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images If not, what was it? I don’t know that anyone actually thinks of these things, or about these things, but it’s worth a question, I guess. Sunday’s rainout of an afternoon contest between the Braves and Marlins was helpful for numerous reasons, which add up to it being a potential panacea: The Braves get two off-days for the price of one; Which is helpfu...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Strider steals the show on Opening Day

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Strider’s 5 1⁄3 hitless innings highlighted a busy day on the farm For the first time all season we have all four minor league affiliates in action on the Atlanta Braves farm system, and we had plenty to be excited about on Friday night. Three of the four affiliates won, including a walk off in Gwinnett and an impressive showing from some young hitters do...2025
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• Braves News: Jesse Chavez rejoins, losing streak snapped, and more

D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. For the second time this season, Jesse Chavez has himself a deal with the Atlanta Braves. On April 3, he was outrighted to Gwinnett, where he then elected free agency. On the 4th, the club announced his minor league contract. In his first stint with the Braves this year, the fan favorite logged two innings and surrende...2025
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• Braves set to face Rays at Steinbrenner Field

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The Braves will play in two not-technically-MLB-level parks this year, and this series features one of them. We don’t know yet exactly what the 2025 season will be remembered for, but one possibility is that it features official, run-of-the-mill MLB games in not just one park not originally built to host such games, but two. There’s whatever is going on...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap 4/10

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Starting pitching throughout the organization was on another level on Thursday night. (5-6) Gwinnett Stripers 6, (5-7) Norfolk Tides 1 Spencer Strider, SP: 5.1IP 3H 1ER 2BB 13K, 1.32 ERA Dylan Dodd, RP: 1.2IP 1H 0R 0BB 4K, 14.54 ERA Jake Marisnick, CF: 1-for-3, HR, R, 2 RBI, .138/.242/.276 Cody Milligan, RF: 2-for-3, BB, .333/.400/.429 Box Score This gam...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Strider steals the show on Opening Day
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• Braves News: Jesse Chavez rejoins, losing streak snapped, and more
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• The Braves will be fine, right? Right?

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Surely there’s no way this team is this bad, right? Come cope with me, y’all. The Atlanta Braves are currently off to an absolutely abysmal start, especially when compared to the lofty expectations that this ballclub had heading into the season. They’ve played six games, lost six games and the reason is glaringly clear. The offense has been nightmaris...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Strider excels in rehab start, Stripers fall

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images The rehabbing Braves star was dynamic on the mound before the Stripers bullpen fell apart (0-2) Gwinnett Stripers 4, (2-0) Charlotte Knights 12 Eddy Alvarez, CF: 2-for-2, 2R, 2BB, 1.250 OPS Luke Waddell, SS: 3-for-5, RBI, 2K, .944 OPS Sandy León, C: 1-for-3, R, 1.262 OPS Spencer Strider, SP: 3IP 2H 1ER 1BB 6K, 3.00 ERA Buck Farmer, RP: 0.1IP 4H 3ER 0B 0BB ...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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• Braves News: Aaron Bummer to bereavement list, series opening loss, and more
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• Finally, a series win for the Braves in 2025!

Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Hopefully this will be the start of the Braves finally getting their season off to a proper start Despite the fact that the Atlanta Braves had gotten off to a very slow start and the Philadelphia Phillies had burst out of the gates to start this season, this was always going to be a hard-fought series between two teams who have been battling a...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Strider steals the show on Opening Day
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• When will Spencer Strider make his 2025 debut?

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images You might want to consider buying a ticket to next Thursday’s game vs. Philly. It’s been said with many words on this site and on podcasts and on every corner of social media in existence, but sweet mother of god, that was a horrifying, nightmarish 7 days. Between the Jurickson Profar PED suspension, the Reynaldo López shoulder injury, and the 0-7 reco...2025
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• “Tarot! Tarot! Off to Opening Day, We Go!” (Braves pitchers edition)

Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images We’re continuing to get weird around here. Pulling tarot cards is an interesting exercise. The first part of it is finding the right question to ask. Like I said yesterday, you can’t ask yes/no questions, and you can ask multiple choice questions. You have to ask open-ended questions, but you also need to ask a specific enough question to divine an answer....2025
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• Final musings on the Braves offseason

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Might be more “rant” than “musings,” if we’re being honest. The offseason is over, friends. The long, dark, oppressive, evil winter has passed, and spring is finally here. Starting tomorrow, we shall unite once more for a singular purpose – to collectively slander Brian Snitker’s bullpen management decisions for 6 months in a row. Bats will crack, mitt...2025
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Braves News: Sean Murphy’s hot start continues

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday On Saturday evening, the Atlanta Braves finally picked up their first road win of the season in a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. Picking up the road win was huge, as the Braves will be heading into today’s series finale with a shot at picking up their first road series win of the year. Th...2025
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• Braves News: Aaron Bummer to bereavement list, series opening loss, and more
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• Bryce Elder gets another try as Braves open up road trip against Rays

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves’ bats will look to make things happen against Tampa Bay starter Taj Bradley. At this point, I wouldn’t blame you for mentally associating the phrase “persona non grata” with Bryce Elder... but the Braves likely don’t agree, which is why he’s starting tonight’s series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays. This is likely g...2025
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• SURVEY RESULTS: Fans split on over/under 88.5 wins for Braves

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images It was nearly an even split, at that. The final tally of the poll we ran earlier this week is almost a dead heat. 51% think the Braves get to 89 wins or better. 49% believe the Atlanta Braves finish at 88 wins or worse. That generally means the line was set at exactly the right number but I was expecting a bit more negativity conside...2025
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• Braves set to face Rays at Steinbrenner Field
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• Finally, a series win for the Braves in 2025!
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• Braves ace is nearing his return after dominant rehab start

After having won just two of their first 11 games the Atlanta Braves are in serious need of some positive news. They might be finally getting some with the imminent return of ace starting pitcher Spencer Strider....2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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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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• 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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• 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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