The Braves turn their organization over to a new general manager, Alex Anthopoulos, and finally turn from their past. During Anthopoulos’ introductory press conference Monday afternoon at SunTrust Park, the only two Braves employees who spoke were Anthopoulos and CEO …
In 2010, a couple of weeks after Jason Heyward made his Major League debut, Sports Illustrated published a Tom Verducci article about Jason Heyward’s rise to the big leagues. In it Verducci describes what he calls a “subterfuge campaign” by …
Last Tuesday, Ken Rosenthal, now writing for The Athletic, wrote an article (subscription only) about internal strife within the Braves front office. In the article, a club official is quoted asking the rhetorical question of whether John Schuerholz or John …
The Braves have been in a rebuild mode since after the 2014 season. Yet, they haven’t gone with young players on the major league roster. They’ve been losing on the cheap with rather old players. Are they trying to be …
Braves fans obviously hoped the rebuild would have turned a corner more so than it has and that the team would be very close to contention right now, at least on the outskirts of a wild card berth. But it …
