Atlanta Braves 2016: Come for the H&F Burger, stay for the 68 wins

bringing his hair

If you ever wondered how horrible it would be for Al Franken to be a sportscaster, tune in to the Barves radio feed — Mark Lemke sounds just like him. Knows about as much about baseball, too.

~ lemmer ~

As a franchise, the Braves have been around for more than 140 years. They woke up today with a .500 record of 10,424-10,424.

ender inciarte has been good recently

#blessed to have been able to witness aaron blair's first big league win

#nonplussed

96.2% route efficiency

http://m.mets.mlb.com/news/article/202712846/statcast-measures-inciartes-catch-on-cespedes/

ender inciarte has been good recently

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prescient

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/9/22/13008288/braves-julio-teheran-trade

trade him

what's the obsession with immediately filling the seats of white flight park? it's not gonna get cancelled for bad first season ratings

I think there's something to having a leader, or at least public face, of the pitching staff the way Freddie is the leader of the offense. He's inexpensive, talented, young and I've never heard say a nervous word about his mechanics or health. I'd keep him.

unless they're legitimately planning on contending next year, which they probably shouldn't be, i don't think that's important

teheran is never going to have as much value as he has right now in this market. the pieces he brings in could make this team's youth movement in the coming years very cubs-like.

he's an all-star who is cheap and under control for four more seasons; that's the kind of guy you want to *get*

it shouldn't take the braves five years to contend. i mean yeah if dave stewart wants to give them aj pollock and all his future first-round picks for teheran then do it, but i don't see why they need to shop him now

if it were any other offseason I would probably agree but this one is unique. I also don't think teheran's ERA this season is reflective of his true talent level so there's that.

he's an all-star who is cheap and under control for four more seasons; that's the kind of guy you want to *get*

OTM.

They are so much better than they were in April. I think they're having a 2012 Royals/2014 Astros season this year. I don't know about playoffs, but .500 is not hard to envision next year.

68 within reach

I didn't give them a snowball's chance until the last week or so.

Mark Bowman ✔ @mlbbowman

The Braves interviewed their four internal mgr. candidates - Snit, Pendleton, Perez and Porter. Pendleton was said to be very impressive

I know Snitker has to be the frontrunner after this 2nd half, but I'm kind of rooting for Pendleton. I'd like to see the Barves start off in White Flight Stadium with a black manager. (I don't know anything about Porter.)

mcdowell out

kudos 2 nailing the win total exactly, WmC

should we start the Hot Stove thread? or just keep bumping every team when they unload ballast during October?

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xp

Snitker permanent (and with a name like that, he's got to be good)