I’m waiting for it. It hasn’t happened yet, but I know it will. It’s inevitable. It almost happened a couple days ago at work. I’m new there, just getting to know the other guys, and we were talking about the …

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Baseball projection systems provide an objective way to get at what players and teams are likely to do in the upcoming season.  They use elaborate methods that take in to account a variety of factors to determine likely outcomes.  What …

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Much is being made of the likelihood that Braves’ hitters will rack up the strikeouts in 2013.  AJC beat writer David O’Brien wrote, “no World Series champion has ever struck out as many as 1,200 times, and of the last …

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With the loss of prototypical leadoff man Michael Bourn, the Braves’ 2013 batting order has been a topic of conversation and curiosity.  I’ll take the research found in “The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball” by Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman …

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My parents bought me a Michael Bourn t-shirt for my 24^th birthday this year, because his number with Atlanta was 24. Michael Bourn. For my birthday. (Get it? Get it? You get it). And now it’s sharing closet space …

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