The Braves are coming down the home stretch of the season with their eyes on the #1 seed in the National League. However, we know Alex Anthopoulos is always looking one, two, and three years down the road, and it’s never too early to talk about free agency. The Braves don’t have a ton of
MLB.com recently picked one prospect from each of the 30 teams that have made the most significant jump in 2023. When I first opened this piece, I thought the answer was going to be a no-brainer for the Braves. AJ Smith-Shawver began the year in high-A and has made five appearances in the big leagues
The Braves rotation has been laughably bad since the All-Star break, and unfortunately, it didn’t end this afternoon with Bryce Elder on the mound. Like the previous few nights, Elder settled in nicely to begin the game, tossing two scoreless frames, but things unraveled in the third, leading to three runs. More trouble then arrived
For all the flack the starters are currently receiving, and they deserve it for the results over the last month, the bullpen has blossomed into one of the best in baseball since the acquisitions of Pierce Johnson and Brad Hand at the trade deadline. As I wrote yesterday, the two newcomers have yet to allow
Bijan Robinson will soon be one of the biggest stars in Atlanta sports. Falcons fans are starving for something to cheer about. The team hasn’t been to the postseason since 2017, and beyond that, the product on the field has been downright boring. That won’t be the case in 2023. The defense finally looks like
The Braves didn’t make the blockbuster splash many hoped for at the trade deadline, but that was always unlikely given their lack of prospect capital within their farm system. They did, however, make a couple of intriguing trades with the Rockies for relievers that weren’t living up to expectations. Perhaps it’s getting out of Coors
As Xavien Howard made clear yesterday, there are a lot of people — both fans and players — that don’t even know who the Falcons starting quarterback is going into 2023. That’s going to change — for better or for worse — in a matter of a couple of months. Over the last two seasons,
Matt Olson‘s second season with the Braves has gone far better than the first. This is what Alex Anthopoulos and company were expecting when they swung the blockbuster trade for him a couple of offseasons ago. He ranks second in Major League Baseball with 39 homers and leads the league in RBIs by a wide
The acquisition of Yonny Chirinos was something that never made any sense when it happened, and Braves fans now have a good idea of why I thought that initially. Sure, Chirinos’ surface level numbers were not abysmal for the Rays. He posted a respectable 4.02 ERA over 15 appearances (four starts), but the Braves are
The Braves have lost three in a row, and things haven’t looked much better tonight with Yonny Chirinos on the mound. It’s been frustrating, but the night got ten times worse when Ronald Acuña Jr. was plunked right on the elbow with a 97 MPH sinker, resulting in him quickly exiting the game. Ronald Acuña
