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Is that Al who ran Arnold's on Happy Days?

Missed that one.

I think Baldwin has won all the informal ROTY awards and I'm guessing he'll win again tomorrow. I wouldn't be shocked if Durbin won simply because writers love the underdog story and although I think he will get some first-place votes, I don't think he'll win. If Durbin does win, I want Lucas...

Acquire Taylor Walls and bring back Forrest Wall. We'd have Wall-to-Walls carpeting.

I was surprised Wisely wasn't waived. Brujan did show out a bit during this short stint with the Braves, but I agree if they need a roster spot there wouldn't be a problem letting him go. Both of the Munoz brothers have plus stuff with iffy control. I see Roddery just got picked up again by a...

Braves did a lot of roster-purging on Thursday when they re-instated the players from the 60-day DL. Outrighted to Gwinnett: OF Carlos Rodriguez, RHP Joel Payamps, C Chuckie Robinson, LHP Austin Cox OF Jake Fraley claimed on waivers by the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays. Braves kept IF Brett Wisely...

The Dodgers might purchase the entire Japanese League.

Occam's razor.

I didn't understand a bunch of the late-season moves in/out. Seems like they were auditioning a bunch of guys. Roster was going to be at 41 when all the 60-day DL guys are reinstated, so there will be shedding of guys and there are candidates more likely than Kinley to be shown the door, but...

I think Acuna (and Ohtani) for that matter were/are just padding their two-dimensional stats without regard for the value of the base in terms of game situation. If the Braves need him to steal a bunch of bases to win games, he should do that. If he's just racking up garbage time stats it just...

I've watched her over the past few months. She reminds me of a less (far less) eloquent William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner who ran for President on the Democratic ticket three times between 1896 and 1908. She's never going to go with the full Bryan platform, but she's a populist in...

I think in Bader's case it's years as much as AAV (although he'd like AAV as high as possible). 3/$24 MM ($8 AAV) is more than 1/$10. I'm just throwing stuff out there and that's probably a bad comparison in contracts, but these guys will want extra years and they will likely give a little on...

Didn't John Rocker get pissed and call out Ozzie Guillen when Ozzie replaced Weiss in the field for some reason? I thought it was a playoff game and Ozzie didn't make a play that Rocker thought Weiss would have made.

I don't know about the rest of the team, but I think Hyers helped Olson. Maybe it was just Olson being streaky, but he seemed steadier this season coming out of his slumps. Don't get me wrong, Olson is still going to have weeks where Little League would be his ceiling but his power--while...

Hard to blame injuries on any one thing, but I think rushing these guys may lead to them overthrowing before they've developed their secondary pitches. Hence, more stress on the arm. Curious what other changes are in the works.

And when I brought it up last year that I thought the Braves lacked athleticism, I was barraged with all kinds of data and observations that collectively would discount my assessment. I stand by my original thoughts and they look like they are backed up in this tweet. PS--Richardson has a...

I think we will likely hear rumor upon rumor for the next couple of weeks. Who knows, maybe Lehmann looked at all that still remains of the "Braves' Way" and he didn't want to buy that cow. Curious about Chipper's input--if he indeed had viewpoints that Anthopoulos seriously considered--and...

The manager has to, if not run the clubhouse, make sure that everyone is on the same page and that players are put in the best position to succeed. Things have changed over the past couple of decades in what constitutes optimum usage of players and managers (and the analytics team) have to be...

I would guess that is largely true, but my guess is that there are some guidelines set down by management during the interview process that, while not requiring someone be hired or retained, would basically say "We really want to keep a few of these guys around because of player relationships...

If true, we know that Lehmann is sane. I wouldn't want Gibbons within five light years of the franchise. I don't know the comparative baseball IQs of Gibbons vis-a-vis Snitker, but Gibbons is the poster boy for the adage "Let people think you're an idiot instead of opening your mouth and...