MLB
New Braves’ Chiefs
By: Drayton Hogarth
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
With Major League Baseball in the middle of the playoff run, the Atlanta Braves have made news for the 2017 season by taking the interim tag off of Brian Snitker, and have now named him the new permanent manager.
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
With a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on October 2nd, Turner Field closed its gates on an Atlanta Braves’ season for the final time.
The Ted, as it is affectionately known, opened up with a 1-run win for Atlanta as well, coming against the Cubs in 1997. It hasn’t seen much in the way of postseason success in between, and in fact most of the teams celebrating clinching wins there have been visitors.
Farewell to Turner Field
By: Drayton Hogarth
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The major league baseball regular season is drawing to a close, and with it will also bring to a close the Atlanta Braves playing at Turner Field.
Remembering Jose Fernandez
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
On Sunday we were all hit with shocking and tragic news: Marlins ace right hander Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident. He was 24 years old.
Fernandez’s death hit me a lot harder than I might have predicted. He wasn’t on my team – as a die-hard Braves fan, I should have been inclined to root against him – but he was still a player that I absolutely loved to watch. I wasn’t the only one.
Braves Tough Season
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Can a season be considered a success if the team finishes last in its division? How do you judge a year that was set up to be a failure in terms of win-loss record?
These are the kinds of questions Braves fans will ask as the season winds down and the baseball world looks towards the offseason and towards 2017.
The Tebow Bus
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Tim Tebow announcing his intent to play Major League Baseball seemed like a joke at first. Then actual Major League Baseball teams went along with it. Almost all of them showed up to watch him display his talents.
Then one actually signed him. Tim Tebow is now a professional baseball player. It still seems like kind of a joke.
Marlins Swimming Toward October?
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The Marlins have never lost a playoff series. Did you know that?
In the now more than two decades of the franchise’s existence, the Florida/Miami Marlins have won every single playoff series they’ve been a part of.
Braves Win In Kemp Trade?
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
So I’m just having a normal Saturday, taking advantage of the weekend and running errands.
Now I’m doing my best to keep up with MLB’s trade rumors since I have a side gig as a sports columnist, and I’m keeping my ear to ground because I know that my local team. The Atlanta Braves, could be moving a lot of players in the next few days.
Nick Markakis maybe, probably Jeff Francoeur; there are some relievers and infielders that could be ripe for moving too.
Boring Sports Summer
By: JJ Lanier
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Welcome to what is becoming an annual “It’s been a long sports summer, the Braves are still in last place, and I can’t possibly write another preseason article on SEC Football” story from yours truly.
For someone who writes stories on southern sports I like to refer to these days as the ‘Bob Ross’ days. You know, as in I’d rather watch that man with the glorious fro paint pictures of mountain ranges than subject myself to following whether or not the Hawks are going to give some guy I’ve never heard $5 million dollars a year to sit the bench.
Should Fred McGriff Be In Hall Of Fame?
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Another year, another Hall of Fame vote, and this weekend, another induction ceremony that will not feature Fred McGriff.
The slugger has been on the MLB Hall of Fame ballot for seven years now, and has garnered enough support to remain on the ballot for each following year, but has never come close to sniffing the 75% required to gain entrance into Cooperstown, by far baseball’s greatest and most rare honor.
