Atlanta Braves 2014: I got your extension right here

braves are really inside the nats' heads

gree hee hee. Braves had the Nats by the wrists today and were doing the old "why are you slapping yourself, huh? huh?" thing.

Andrelton Simmons: 45 PA, zero strikeouts, zero GIDP

Like sands through the hourglass...

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andrelton struck out

Fuck Dan Uggla and his cinder-block hands.

What is it about Atlanta that makes everybody's eyeballs go oblong?

That's what you get for trying to run on GERALD LAIRD, Billy Hamilton.

(Teheran and Simmons probably had more to do with it, but...)

Laird's thrown out 2 of 3 attempts against him; Gattis, 4/14. For a guy who has a weird little hitch in his throw when he's tossing it back to the pitcher, Laird unloads in a hurry on a steal attempt.

Actually I guess Laird's gotten 3 of 4, unless baseball-reference.com updates stats instantaneously.

Braves pitching pretty much shut down the Reds this weekend. They got some depth with Hale, who looks pretty solid. That guy was dealing strikes and getting some real good movement on Saturday.

Yeesh.

"and the magical ride of Aaron Harang comes to a screeching halt"

it's called April

era+ no longer 427 i guess

Braves extend Johnson...Frank Wren handles Johnson's extension... name your headline.

Rosenthal: Source: #Braves agree with Chris Johnson to 3-yr extension plus club option. Buys out final 2 yrs of arb, plus 1 and possibly 2 yrs of FA.

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uggla: benched!

yeah well this is about as high as I expected to get in HM, T-17th. Hopefully he starightens out enough to come back and be mediocre for 100 games.

.186 with a .657 OPS in 265 games dating back to mid-2012

Oh yeah, Fredi, the passive-aggressive thing is really going to work on these guys.

“Sometimes you have meetings and guys expect you to rant and rave and throw stuff,” he said. “I popped in the hitters’ meeting today for a little bit and told the guys, ‘Hey, let’s whoop somebody’s ass today. Let’s go out there and score three, really put it to them!’ It kind of got a giggle.”

tommy la stella is hitting .393 when behind in the count (although that doesn't really explain why he's only .216 when ahead)

Fredi going full LaRussa

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10887297/atlanta-braves-shake-lineup-bat-pitcher-aaron-harang-8th

He did that a couple of times last season, iirc.

Danny Biceps played tonight, that benching is still just an uggla rumor

@ajcbraves
Freeman 6-for-11 with RISP and 2 outs. Rest of team: 8-for-103

No amount of La Stella is going to fix this team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfPspjKj08

@BRefPlayIndex: Career batting average with #Braves:

Warren Spahn .196
B.J. Upton .188

47-minute bottom of the 7th

Looks like Chris Johnson has had another meltdown/flipout. Replaced by Peña.

no doubt upset that bj has passed him on the ops list

I rewound the game to his strikeout (I'm just now starting to realize how freaking awesome DVRs are, after 8 months of having one) and you can hear something going WHAM-WHAM-WHAM and then a bunch of bats clattering as Simmons was coming up for his at-bat.

Bossman Jr. finally putting it all together.

It must really be muggy in Atlanta tonight. It's not that hot, but Lester's drenched and a bunch of other players are lathered up.

http://deadspin.com/opponents-barred-from-speaking-as-cobb-county-approves-1582556255

county guvmint at its classical best

la stella up

These guys baffle the hell out of me, but considering the division they play in, they may manage to bluff their way into October. Good work by the new kids this weekend.

Congrats Craigzilla.

http://www.talkingchop.com/2014/6/7/5788526/as-craig-kimbrel-breaks-braves-saves-record-we-look-back-at-his

Since debuting in 2010, Kimbrel has been worth 10.3 WAR. The next highest is Greg Holland at 8.4.

His 43.1% strikeout rate leads all relievers during that same span. As does his 33.7% strikeout minus walk rate. In fact, when looking back at the history of baseball, both of those numbers are the best.

The 155 saves he has recorded are tops in the league, above Jonathan Papelbon's 148. If you recall, Kimbrel came up late in 2010 and acted as a set up man for Billy Wagner, so he hasn't even been a closer for each of the years in this example.

His 1.41 ERA is by far the best in the league since his debut as well. With our old friend Eric O'Flaherty finishing behind him with a 1.68 mark.

Jeez, gonna be a long night.

GATTIS

i might like this team if they weren't the braves

lol

I'm squeezing the last couple of years of homerism out of them before they move to White Flight Stadium and I become a Pirates fan. My wife suggested I become a Cards fan but that whole conversation ended with her saying "okay, okay, jeez, you weirdo."

I don't want to overdo the "omg Andrelton" stuff but this one is worth it.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_06_13_anamlb_atlmlb_1&mode=video&content_id=33684561&tcid=vpp_copy_33684561

braves 'considering' calling up christian bethancourt, moving heyward to center, jupton to right, oso blanco to left, bupton to bench

I saw that this morning. I mostly agree with the Talking Chop guy who said it would make zero sense -- I would upgrade that to very little sense.

paplolbon

Ryan Doumit is a creepy-looking motherfucker -- his eyeballs are solid black, no whites.

hahaha, I googled him and it autocompleted to "ryan doumit eyes"

http://twinstrivia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Doumit-Ryan.jpg

This game baffles me more every day.

you buried em and they rise from the grave, simple

when i bury the Mets, they stay buried

pirates are even curing bupton

Lorenzo's Chaw

happy 30th birthday to bossman jr.

Hope he gets a (shaving cream) cake (in his face) for his birthday.

Simba with his best of the year: http://braves.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?c_id=atl&gid=2014_08_27_atlmlb_nynmlb_1&lang=en&content_id=35722799&mode=video

Wood vs. Eovaldi was great.

Jose Constanza was used to pinch hit for a healthy Justin Upton

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aw, look who scored

103 quality starts, most in the majors. Hooray! But the run differential finally went negative yesterday.

as karmic payback for Cobb County stadium goes, getting swept by Texas is p sweet.

No argument from me there.

White Flight Stadium naming rights go to Suntrust Bank. I would have guessed Coke or Delta.

Pitchers Strong In Atlanta
The Braves, looking for a boost to their playoff hopes, have yet to solve Nats starter Blake Treinen.

espn copy writers working *hard*

Whew, what a relief that's over.

...wait, they actually have to play these last seven?!

rip frank wren

Burn it all down to the ground except for McDowell & Eddie Perez.

kinda tough to burn it all down when all spring was spent handing out contract extensions

being braves prospect kyle wren just got a little weird tho

Ah yeah, I just meant front office/coaching staff.

so, Hart?

http://www.talkingchop.com/2014/9/23/6836957/braves-have-offered-john-hart-the-gm-job

Frank Wren could invent a cancer vaccine in 20 years and the headline will read "Disease Eradicated By The Guy Who Signed Dan Uggla To A Long-Term Contract."

-Matt Sussman, BP

Congratz to B.J. Upton on his new Braves single season strikeout record (172).

Fredi survives.

Greg Walker out as asst. hitting coach, Doug Dascenzo replaced by Bo Porter as 3B coach.

Hart gives in to the arm-twisting, named Pres. of Baseball Operations. Coppolella's title of "right-hand man" to be changed to GM sooner or later.

Saving these for next season, hope I have a reason to use 'em.

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