Atlanta Braves
The Game July 8
Braves Future After Bartolo Colon
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The Braves have designated Bartolo Colon for assignment and called up LHP Rex Brothers from Gwinnett.
The Colon experiment is finally over in Atlanta. 2-8 with an 8.14 ERA coming off being bombed by the Padres Wednesday night. The Braves front office has finally had enough. Let’s look at the Braves rotation for the balance of the season.
The Game June 24
The New Scalpers
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
By necessity of having 30 major league teams with four or five minor league teams each, the MLB draft is a long and often fruitless exercise. However, the fruit that does bear can ripen into Chipper Jones, so let’s see what the Braves have done in 2017.
Coming Into The Tribe
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The fact that a huge chunk of draftees won’t see the bigs for years, if ever, always makes the Major League Baseball draft a little less sexy than the NFL or NBA drafts.
With a less national fanfare and significantly less national visibility for their prospects baseball’s annual selection process tends to attract less attention but that isn’t to say that it isn’t worthy of a deeper dig for baseball fans who are in it for the long haul.
After the acquisition of Matt Kemp last season, the Braves’ offense lifted Atlanta from the scrap heap of squads and placed the Braves’ 2017 draft pick at number five.
The Game June 10
Braves Season Chopped
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Well this pretty much sucks.
After leaving the game on May 17th, Braves Country’s worst fear was realized. Freddie Freeman would be missing significant time. In fact, he’d be out with a broken wrist for 10 weeks.
No Aces For Braves
By: TJ Hartnett
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Before winning the first two of three against the Marlins in Miami over the weekend, the Braves were (not) enjoying a miserable six game losing streak. It was their second such victory-less run of the year, to go along with a five-gamer already in the books all before the second month of the season has seen its halfway point.
Unfortunately, the biggest culprit behind this crime of losing has been the pitching staff; a notable bruise given that three veterans were brought on board before the season began to avoid these kinds of slumps.
Tribute To Hank Aaron
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
I sat at my favorite watering hole and was glued to the television, watching all of the opening day festivities associated with the Braves new home SunTrust Park. What a magnificent facility it is and the Braves opened the new park with a four game sweep of the San Diego.
As I was watching the ceremonies leading up to the game the event that touched me the most was when the Braves honored their retired numbers. 83 year-old Henry Aaron was introduced and I choked back tears because of what that man has meant to the city of Atlanta, the State of Georgia, and influence the man has had over generations of youth all across this great country of ours.
The Game April 15
