Top five storylines for 2023 Atlanta Braves On opening day, every team is 0-0. Fans all around the sport have optimism. Nothing has happened yet, so anything can happen. Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2023
The Braves’ Michael Harris II showed off a beautiful right-handed swing and had MLB fans in awe He's a lefty ... USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 27, 2023
Braves starter Kyle Wright will begin season on IL as he finishes building up NORTH PORT, Fla. — The Braves have decided to give Kyle Wright more time to ramp up for the regular season. Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2023
All 30 MLB stadiums, ranked: 2023 edition Here are the best places to watch a baseball game. USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 25, 2023
Season’s greetings: Making sense of Kyle Wright and Cubs and Sox win totals Bet on it: Smart baseball bettors can find value in MLB futures bets Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 25, 2023
Mark Bradley: The star-spangled Braves — good value for great talent ATLANTA — ESPN ranks eight Braves among MLB’s top 74 players. Ronald Acuna is No. 14, Ozzie Albies No. 74. In between come Austin Riley, Max Fried, Michael Harris, Spencer Strider, Matt Olson and Sean Murphy. That’s two pitchers, one catcher, three infielders and two outfielders. That’s what you’d call… Tribune News Service · Mar 25, 2023
Fantasy Baseball Cheatsheet: Pitchers That Are Rising and Falling on Rankings Heading into a big weekend of fantasy baseball drafts, here are some pitchers to target and some to fade based on the latest rankings. Sports Illustrated · Mar 24, 2023
Fantasy Baseball Risers and Fallers: Pitchers Heading into a big weekend of fantasy baseball drafts, here are some pitchers to target and some to fade. Sports Illustrated · Mar 24, 2023
Mark Bradley: Starting at shortstop for the Braves — Orlando Arcia? To give him his due, Orlando Arcia isn’t a journeyman. He’s 28. He has played for two MLB clubs. He has started 545 big-league games, 476 at shortstop. He was Milwaukee’s shortstop from 2016 through 2020. As a Brewer, he started 13 postseason games. The Braves acquired him in April… Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2023
Apple Puts ’Friday Night Baseball’ Behind the $6.99-a-Month Apple TV Plus Paywall (See the 2023 Game Schedule) But games will be shown in bars and restaurants via a deal with DirecTV for Business Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 22, 2023
Why the Cubs are ‘not worried’ about Dansby Swanson’s spring slump Still working to find his timing, Swanson is 2-for-28 this spring training. Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 20, 2023
Lefty Dylan Dodd becomes surprise of Braves spring training NORTH PORT, Fla. — Dylan Dodd didn’t imagine this either. Just a few years ago, he had an ERA over 5.00 at Southeast Missouri State. And despite jumping three minor-league levels last season, Dodd still was an unheralded prospect. Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023
SI:AM | The Most Interesting Non–Aaron Rodgers NFL Moves The league was still active on the first day of legal tampering. Sports Illustrated · Mar 14, 2023
Charlie Morton loves seeing his fellow Braves starters thrive NORTH PORT, Fla. — Braves right-hander Charlie Morton, at age 39, appreciates seeing the team’s other starters blossom. Tribune News Service · Mar 12, 2023
Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2023 The Braves’ rotation has some questions, but Max Fried is a certainty NORTH PORT, Fla. — The Braves’ rotation could be a strength, perhaps even among the best in MLB, with multiple Cy Young candidates. It could also be a bit shaky, with various outcomes that could lead the Braves to pursue external help by July.
Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2023 Braves’ A.J. Minter entering 2023 season with goal in mind NORTH PORT, Fla. — If A.J. Minter has a successful 2023 season, he already knows why: He kept the walks to a minimum. Minter said his goal is to issue the fewest walks among major-league relievers this season. He finished 18th in walks per nine innings among qualified relievers a…
Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 8, 2023 Freddie Freeman expects big things for Dansby Swanson as a Cub “He’s got a good head on his shoulders,” Freeman said before Team Canada lost to the Cubs
Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 6, 2023 ‘Winning mindset’: How Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson’s attention to detail has made itself obvious A common theme has emerged in stories about Swanson’s preparation for his first meeting with the Cubs, pre-pitch routine and approach to batting practice.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 6, 2023 Drake’s Elder Statesmen Look Fit for Cinderella’s Slipper The Bulldogs won the Missouri Valley championship Sunday with the sort of roster that’d be almost impossible to assemble at any other time in the sport.
Tribune News Service · Mar 3, 2023 Braves prospect Blake Burkhalter to undergo Tommy John surgery PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — One of the Braves’ promising prospects will be sidelined for the entire season.
Tribune News Service · Mar 1, 2023 Braves' Ian Anderson on spring debut: ‘I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. It was not very good.’ FORT MYERS, Fla. — In spring training, we are told to focus less on results and more on context. Pitchers are experimenting. Hitters are finding their timing. The in-game statistics often can be meaningless.
USA Today Sports Media Group · Feb 28, 2023 The Braves’ Outkast bobblehead giveaway is so fresh and so clean This bobblehead is cooler than Freddie Jackson sipping a milkshake in a snowstorm.
Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2023 Tim Cowlishaw: With pitch clocks here to stay, Rangers must embrace MLB’s new, fast-paced game GOODYEAR, Ariz. — The pitch clock has arrived in Major League Baseball. It’s here to stay, and that’s a wonderful thing, no matter how loudly people howl on Twitter or anyplace else about the end of Saturday’s Braves-Red Sox game in Florida.
Tribune News Service · Feb 27, 2023 Braden Shewmake’s newborn son gives him perspective on baseball TAMPA, Fla. — When the days rehabbing his torn PCL became long or monotonous, or both, Braden Shewmake’s motivation was at home waiting for him when he finished.
Tribune News Service · Feb 26, 2023 Bill Madden: Yankees, Mets spent big bucks over the winter but neither team seems much closer to winning World Series NEW YORK — Between the two of them, Hal Steinbrenner and Steve Cohen spent over a billion dollars in home improvements this winter. But after all that the prospects for a Subway World Series remain murky for both.