Cliff Corcoran has a nice piece at SI.com identifying the best and worst defenders in baseball at each position by UZR and comparing them to the most recent Gold Glove winners. There are a few interesting notes in there about Braves players:
On former Brave, Mark Teixeira:
Mark Teixeira, who won the AL award in 2005 and [...]
From the New York Times:
If a pitcher needs to work on his mechanics, for example, a general manager could say that he is injured and put him on the disabled list, allowing the team to replace the pitcher while he works out his problems.
“Making good use of the D.L. allows you to expand your 25-man [...]
SI polled 300 Major League players about which manager they would most like to play for. Bobby Cox came out on top with 25 percent.
If you want to know why Bobby Cox has a job for as long as he wants one, it’s not just because of 14 consecutive division titles, it’s also because players [...]
Going into the All-Star break, I suggested it’s time for the Braves to wave the big white flag on 2008. I think I’m in the minority on that opinion. It’s hard to argue that 6.5 games is an insurmountable deficit, and with a second half full of division matchups, we certainly have a lot of [...]
Frankie Fultz is out, Phil Falco is in. Awesome alliterative name remains qualification for job.
The juicy bits:
When asked about Fultz’s situation, Braves general manager Frank Wren could only reveal that Fultz had resigned… Fultz’s midseason departure has drawn a number of questions. But a club official said this wasn’t a product of the number of [...]
In the first three games of the series in Pittsburgh, the Braves managed to score 4, combined, then busted out for 8 runs in game four. Mark Teixeira went down with back pains in the first game. Tim Hudson did the stopper thing in the second game. Still, our 10-2 win in Washington and our [...]
After catching only the first two and two-thirds at lunch time, I was blown away to discover that we had pulled out a win. Not that we were in an irreparable hole in terms of runs, but the games in which your starter comes out way early due to freak injuries (manboob, anyone?) are just [...]
Baseball Prospectus compiles what they call the Adjusted Standings based on our Pythagorean won-loss record. Great news, folks! The Braves are leading the NL East in the fake standings (credit).
I know, I know. The idea is to try to somehow eliminate the luck factor from our actual record. And Pythagorean records end up being remarkably [...]
Jon Heyman from SI, in a brilliant feat of investigative journalism, has finally unravelled the mystery that all of us in Atlanta have been puzzling over since the fall of 2005. Apparently, the Mike Hampton contract was a bad decision. Get this, Hampton has been injured and unable to pitch. This is truly the Daily [...]
The Braves found a way to blow another one-run game – this time by scoring two in the 9th. Tim Hudson was brilliant, again. He’s on his way to another Cy Young half-season. Unfortunately, we put some insurance on the board and won by 3, so we’ve still yet to win one of those all-important [...]
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