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Thinking about the 2026 Braves from a predictive perspective is a pretty fraught exercise. You might say, “Wasn’t it a fraught exercise overall?” But honestly, not really! The 2018 Braves were predicted to be largely irrelevant. They surprised everyone and created a once-in-a-lifetime turnaround for the franchise. Has that been extended to 2019? Well, not […]
2025 was the second full season in a Braves uniform for Pierce Johnson and the outcome was almost identical to how he had fared in his first full season, and actually his overall tenure since being traded to the Braves. Normally, that would be enough to stick around for another year, especially considering the Braves […]
The Atlanta Braves had a tough season, partly due to injuries to key players. According to SpotterWe’re talking about 17 players paid approximately $47 million and missing from action for 1,169 combined days of play. (Amazingly, the dollar total is somehow only the eighth highest in MLB). With injuries moving to the pitching side, we […]
The Braves drafted Ian Mejia in the 11th round of the 2022 MLB Draft, selecting him with their top pick of the now-expired third day of the draft. Mejia is a 6’3, 205-pound right-handed pitcher from New Mexico State who started his college career at Arizona, which was drafted in the 35th round by the […]
Tavarez was signed out of the Dominican Republic as part of the 2020-2021 international signing period and received $1.5 million from the Braves to join the organization. What were the expectations for 2025? It feels like Ambioris Tavarez has been part of the organization for at least a decade – or at least that’s how […]
Kendy Richard was an amateur free agent signed by the Braves out of the Dominican Republic in 2024.What were the expectations? Expectations for Kendy were virtually non-existent as he put up solid but not stellar numbers in the Dominican Summer League in 2024. As a 20-year-old, Kendy appeared in 13 games and had a 3.48 […]
One day, in the distant future, you might find yourself in a really boring work meeting that could have been a text message on your wrist terminal (yes, we’re moving to wearable technology, we’ll never get rid of work meetings) and you’ll pick up Sporcle, even more excited than now, and try to recall the […]
In case you didn’t know, many Atlanta Braves fans have been eagerly awaiting last night’s news since early last spring that the National League Rookie of the Year Award would be awarded to Drake Baldwin. This isn’t because they only cared about Baldwin getting a prize, but that the prize comes with an additional first-round […]
This afternoon, the Atlanta Braves surprised (or perhaps shocked) the fan base by naming former bench coach Walt Weiss the team’s new manager. Weiss, 61, will now try to get the Braves back into the playoffs in 2026 after the team missed the postseason last season for the first time since 2017. There is a […]
