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Sure looks good today.

He wants that fifth-starter spot.

Cringe content.

I do think that makes some sense, given the rate the Braves play their regular / don’t play their reserves. Not sure if Fletcher ultimately accrues any trade value, but he’s more likely to do so playing regularly at AAA than playing once a month in MLB.

Come Sale Away to the Promised Land, Because We’re Putting on a Baseball Kelenic

Notably, the Braves had a better showing in the Zips Top 100 for 2024: Rank Player Pos. Organization FanGraphs Rank 35 AJ Smith-ShawverPAtlanta Braves63 38 Owen Murphy P Atlanta Braves Unranked 69 Hurston WaldrepP Atlanta Braves 85 96 Ignacio Alvarez SS Atlanta Braves Unranked Zips...

Someone’s been seeing Cy’s mom again.

The decline in xwoba was much less extreme, and his second-half xwoba was still quite good—meaning he was still hitting the piss out of the ball, but was awfully unlucky, and decidedly not "awful." d'Arnaud also suffered from an xwoba under-performance in 2023, but it was less extreme, and...

Watch any random MLB game on mlb.tv then watch an random AA game on milb.tv. It's not just the quality of play and players that drops off noticeably.

Even guys who ultimately succeed at the MLB level sometimes fail with what made them good at lower levels. Longenhagen cites a couple in his 2017 retrospective, in fact: Lucas Giolito, who he notes aced through lesser competition with a big, bendy curveball that was too identifiable for big...

That'd be awesome. I just hope Sav doesn't use it as an excuse to up the Premium Membership fees even more.

Incorrect. The lack of white trim on the sleeves below the piping looks janky as hell. Terrible change.

Man, I think you don’t remember that streak.

Recent-signee Ken Giles, for pitchers. Going Luis Guillorme for position-players.

Interesting report from The Athletic re corruption and age fraud in the international signing game. Looks like using the Braves as a punitive example a half-decade ago hasn’t done much to diminish the abuses. This tidbit stood out as noteworthy, as well: Another reason to be thrilled the...

Interesting that Steamer has Dylan Cease at 2.7 fwar in 178 IP—a hair shy of Sale’s projection, in the aggregate, and substantially worse on a rate basis (given Sale’s 2.8 fwar projection comes in ~140 anticipated innings). While Zips is a bit rosier on Cease (3.0 in 166 IP), and quite a bit...

He certainly hinted as much:

Seriously. The Braves hitting on virtually every serious position player prospect is, in fact, a “black swan” eventuality.

One-in-a-hundred, or 1%, is hardly unforeseeable. That’s actually a reasonably-high low-likelihood event. And Riley hitting his top-decile offensive tier while improving defense to MLB average (or better) seems like one-in-a-hundred territory.

You say that, but one consistent aspect of the Anthopoulos FO is spending FA money on RPs. Looks like Brown has taken that feature with him to Houston.