14 hours ago by Bart Burnett

After a "winter" off from the national past-time, the game of summer is right around the corner. We all know of the Braves late season collapse and failure to make the playoffs. However, with the bad comes also come the good. We all have a new beginning to look forward to and the hope of a better en ...

17 hours ago

A handful of great atlanta braves images I recognized: Atlanta Braves vs. Milwaukee Brewers Picture by The Suss-Gentleman (Mike) It was Brian McCann bat day, but the Braves all-star catcher was not in the starting lineup. He arrived in to pinch strike in the eighth inning and acquired a strike in th ...

21 hours ago by Ben Duronio

Mark Bowman recently posted an article on his blog after speaking with Mike Minor. Mark says that Minor feels very confident heading into spring training, which is certainly a positive. Minor has ran into some poor luck in his short Major League career, posting the second highest pitcher BABIP of .3 ...

1 day ago by Ben Duronio

Earlier today, Keith Law’s rank of the top-100 prospectsand top-10 prospects per team were released. He ranked Arodys Vizcaino first, which is the first time this has been done by any major publication this year. In fact, in the aggregate ranking I compiled earlier this week, Teheran was ranked firs ...

1 day ago by Jeff Moore

Competing for roster spots and spring training invites.

1 day ago by George Fitopoulos

Can you even doubt Brian McCann at this point? He’s been one of the most consistent players at the position over the last six seasons and had it not been for an injury, McCann would’ve had a career high in home runs. Sure his RBI totals were down a bit from previous seasons, but we can attribute tha ...

1 day ago by Dave Hudgens

You want to train yourself to become a complete hitter. Part of being a complete hitter is being able to hit the ball to all parts of the field. This is important because when you are capable of using the whole field, the pitcher is not able to pitch you in one particular way. In other words he will ...

1 day ago by NAHSTE

Editor’s note- All PitchFX data was taken from BrooksBaseball‘s player cards and all charts are courtesy of TexasLeaguers. For a primer on PitchFX, go here or here. Without further ado, here are the pitches which possessed the most nastiness in 2011: 10. Brandon League’s Sinker Usage: 67.3 Velo: 96. ...

1 day ago by Cody Fields

The Atlanta Braves are looking into the possibility of moving their High-A minor league club to Wilmington, N.C.

1 day ago by Ben Duronio

One of the biggest reasons for the Braves’ collapse was the offense nearly completely shutting down. The team scored just 87 runs in the season’s final month, only more than the Mariners and Padres. The team’s best offensive player throughout the year producing a line of .200/.320/.306 certainly con ...