MLB
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.
Promising 2nd Half For Braves?
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The Atlanta Braves rebounded from a paltry and powerless 15-36 record through the first two months of the 2016 season to play competitive baseball in June and July, heading into the All-Star break with a 31-58 record.
Still, with multiple trades already completed and host of options remaining, the Braves figure to be one of the more active teams in the second half; both on the trade market and with intriguing minor-league decisions.
Let’s take a peek at some of the storylines we’ll be keeping an eye on through the next few months of Braves baseball.
The Trading Game
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
We’re deep into the second year of the Braves somewhat controversial rebuild, and in Atlanta, things are going fairly poorly.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, as they product on the field is by turns young, inexperienced and/or mediocre.
That’s been written about plenty, we won’t go into that with much depth right now.
Contrarily, the product on the field in the minor leagues for the Braves system is full of hope and talent. That’s also been well documented.
For now, I want to go back to the big tent poles of this rebuild: the trades that made Braves fans cry foul. We’ll analyze the returns a little, sure, but what I really want to do is focus on the players we traded away.
Woeful Braves
By Kipp Branch
We are approaching the middle of June and our Atlanta Braves are sitting at 17-42 the worst record in all of MLB. We all knew this was going to be a long year, but did we think it would be this bad?
The Braves fired their manager and I was a supporter of that move but look at the offensive stats through 59 games.
Should The Braves Trade Teheran?
By: TJ Hartnett
The Braves have already traded Jason Grilli and Kelly Johnson, and logic dictates that they will just be the first of many veteran pieces Atlanta will move this year as they continue to build up their minor league talent base.
There are a handful of players who have question marks by their name as to whether or not they are likely to be elsewhere come September, but the guy getting talked about the most is Julio Teheran.
Trading Julio is an interesting notion, and one that could very well come to pass. The Braves brass have said they’d have to be blown away by an offer to consider trading the young righty. There are certainly pros and cons to the idea.
