B.J. Upton is the Braves’ new centerfielder, agreeing to a five-year, $75.25 million deal on Wednesday. There are flaws in Upton’s game and he’s been a somewhat inconsistent player. But he’s young, talented and he’s actually been a pretty valuable …
Jordan Schafer is now 26 and has hit .221/.305/.301 in 893 big league plate appearances and 238 big league games. He also rates as merely a serviceable major league centerfielder. Yet the Atlanta Braves have now acquired Jordan Schafer twice, …
The playoffs are a crap-shoot, even more so with this one-game mess baseball has instituted. The Braves’ prize for finishing 6 games ahead of the Cardinals in a tougher division was playing them in a one-and-done playoff game, where a …
I want to opine about Chipper’s historic career, about his place in the baseball canon, but there are so many smarter, more informed, better writers doing that right now and I don’t need to dilute the waters.
I want to …
Last Saturday Tyler Kepner of the New York Times wrote this on the Times’ baseball blog:
“To win [the manager of the year] award, a manager typically must do one of the following: win a lot more games than people …
