Braves Bats Gone Wild

Well, for one big, exciting inning anyway. A thrilling 8th inning display that saw 12 Braves bat and 3 Brewers pitch (poorly). It left me wondering what is the record for most batters in an inning without anyone getting more than one hit. Diaz, KJ and Willie C. all batted twice, but KJ, with a [...]

Time to Panic? Some say “Yes”

Chipper misses his 6th straight game. Smoltz takes himself out in the 4th after hurting his pinkie again and experiencing arm pain. Braves lose again. Mets win again. So I ask- Is it now time for Braves fans to panic?
Among those who answer “Yes” to the subject query are the little voices that live in my [...]

Chipper: To Be or To Be DL’d?

Chipper has now missed 5 games with a “bruised” hand from his face plant manuever a few weeks back. Every day we get the report, as we do today, that Chipper might be in the line-up tonight. Then he tries swinging a bat, grimices and sits down. Chipper’s big problem is that he holds his [...]

Skip’s Sense of Humor

During last Sunday’s TBS broadcast, there was a curious exchange between Chip and Skip. It happened just after the revelation of that day’s AFLAC trivia question, when Chip mentioned that producer Glen Diamond would be providing the trivia question for the following day’s broadcast. Skip’s reply was (paraphrasing):
“Well, we know the answer [...]

Minor League Notes

Richmond Braves (
Atlanta Braves)
THE WEEK IN REVIEW: The R-Braves went 4-3 last week to move to 27-12 overall, good for first place in the South Division. The team with the best record in the IL is 10 games in front of second-place
Durham. WHO’S HOT AND WHO’S NOT: IF Yunel Escobar has hit .351 in his [...]

BP on Braves transactions

Optioned C-S Brayan Pena to Richmond (Triple-A); activated LHP Mark Redman from the 15-day DL. [5/18]
Placed RHP Anthony Lerew on the 15-day DL; recalled 2B-R Martin Prado from Richmond. [5/20]
Released LHP Mark Redman; recalled RHP Joey Devine from Mississippi (Double-A). [5/22]
There’s a couple of interesting things in play here. First, it seems as if three [...]

name what’s missing in this picture

Top 5 2007 NL Center Fielders, by VORP
Player, Team, EqA, VORP
Aaron Rowand, PHI, .320, 19.1
Carlos Beltran, NYN, .317, 18.2
Hunter Pence, HOU, .342, 11.0
Ryan Church, WAS, .298, 9.8
Josh Hamilton, CIN, .286, 8.0

Congrats to Smoltzie

Kind of hard to believe it took 20 years, but Smoltz joined the 200 win club tonight with yet another dominant performance. Lots of icing on this cake, too — it came against our bitter rivals, gave us a badly needed series win, and he bested his old buddy Tom Glavine. I couldn’t [...]

More Gruel from Oliver

“Please, sir, can we not have any more?”
No truth to the rumor that these were Bobby’s words as he turned in our “white flag” lineup card for this game, but they might as well have been. He artfully dodged any chance at victory with the Woodward-Prado combination — not that they didn’t have help [...]

A Rotation in Disarray

Can the Braves win a pennant without a 5th starter? That seems to be the situation thus far into 2007. The latest turns include Lerew heading to the DL, followed quickly by the merciful, outright release of Redman. Done. Gone. Enjoy the money and have thanks for nothing Mr. 11.63 era. Enter, once again, Joey [...]

Davies Works Out the Kinks

What a revelation was Kyle Davies in this game! Finally able to harness his fastball, he carved up the Metropolitans for eight innings, and topped it off with a monster 3-run HR off professional long reliever Aaron Sele to lead the Braves to a gloriously satisfying 8-1 win to begin a series that was [...]

James Parr’s best by far (5/17 results)

–  Batters –
ORG LVL PLAYER                         AB  R  H  BI
ATL AAA Escobar, Yunel SS  ……….   3  0  1  1  .329 – 3B (3)
ATL AA  Holt, J.C. 2B  …………..   4  1  2  1  .379
ATL AA  Jones, Brandon LF  ……….   4  0  3  1  .297
ATL AA  Lillibridge, Brent SS  ……   3  0  2  0  .277
ATL HiA Andrus, Elvis [...]

Lets Play Two!

Just not right now.
 The Braves opener in the Selig Season has been rained out. It’s been announced that the rain-out will be made up Saturday at 7:30, following the afternoon Braves-BoSox match-up around 1:00. Our first double-header of the season, I believe.  Maybe it’ll rain Saturday and we can work in 3 games on Sunday. [...]

And the Absurdity Begins Anew

Today we move into baseball’s Selig Season. Our Braves are matched up with their “regional rival” Boston. Although Boston has no geographic relation to Atlanta. Florida matches up with perenial powerhouse Tampa Bay. Philly welcomes their regional rival… from Canada. The Mets host the Yankees once again. And the Nats get to spend time with the [...]

Craig’s New List

1) Find a job.
The Braves released Craig Wilson before today’s loss. I liked the signing at the time, but it turns out Wilson was just another 1B who passed through town on his way to the scrap heap (joining Esasky, Brogna, Joyner, and Caminiti). This was being whispered about not long ago, as [...]