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2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings For May 21

Atlanta Braves Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings for May 21, 2012. 1. Dodgers—Won 9 of 11, f...

3 days ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings for May 14

Atlanta Braves Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings for May 14, 2012. 1. Rangers—Fir...

1 week ago by Rich McVey Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings for May 7

Atlanta Braves Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings for...

2 weeks ago by Braden Gall Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, MLB, MLB Power Rankings

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings for April 30

Atlanta Braves Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings for April 30, 2012. 1. Dodgers—Sweep of...

3 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

Baseball's Players of the Week: Hamilton, Freeman, Humber

Atlanta Braves Each week Athlon Sports looks back at the previous week's best baseball players in the American and National leagues, and recaps the most outstanding pitching performances. Here are last wee...

4 weeks ago by Rich McVey Tags: MLB, Cory Luebke, Freddie Freeman, Josh Hamilton, Phil Humber, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers

NL East Predictions

Atlanta Braves NL East 1. Philadelphia 2. Atlanta (wild card) 3. Washington 4. Miami 5. New York With cracks appearing in the Philadelphia offense, the NL East has become the most competitive divisi...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL East, National League, Bryce Harper, Chipper Jones, Stephen Strasburg, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Nationals

Atlanta Braves 2012 Preview

Atlanta Braves Atlanta Braves If not for the beer-drinking, chicken-eating pitchers’ scandal from the Red Sox clubhouse, the spotlight would have shined brighter on the Braves, who are also left to pick up ...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL East, National League, Brian McCann, Chipper Jones, Craig Kimbrel, Dan Uggla, Jason Heyward, Michael Bourn, Tim Hudson, Tyler Pastornicky, Atlanta Braves

Baseball's Pitching Changes: The NL Arms Race

Atlanta Braves —by Mark Ross Similar to the American League, this offseason has seen plenty of changes when it comes to the pitching staffs in the National League. Trades and free agent signings have not on...

Athlon Sports' 2011 NL Rookie of the Year

Atlanta Braves With the World Series in the rear-view mirror and the hot stove just beginning to heat up, it's time to hand out some awards to this year's best performers on the diamond. The Baseball Writers' Ass...

27 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: MLB, National League, Brandon Beachy, Craig Kimbrel, Danny Espinosa, Freddie Freeman, Vance Worley, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Nationals, Rookie of the Year

Red Sox, Yankees and Other Fans Who Really Hate This World Series

Atlanta Braves by Charlie Miller The 2011 World Series is evolving into one of the classic matchups in history. We’ve seen a 1-0 game through eight innings won in the ninth with two sac flies. We’ve seen ...

MLB: Best Night Ever Proves Game Doesn't Need Fixing

Atlanta Braves by Charlie Miller A couple of nights ago, I enjoyed the greatest night of my baseball life. Four teams fighting for a playoff berth in four different games, and three of them went into extra in...

33 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, MLB Playoffs

Cardinal Nation Will Miss Postseason Party

Atlanta Braves by Charlie Miller While the Atlanta Braves haven’t been losing in quite the same fashion as the Red Sox, there are clear signs that this team is wearing down. Relievers Eric O’Flaherty, Jon...

34 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: News, Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals

Predicting The MLB Wild Card Race

Atlanta Braves --By Josh Kipnis With October right around the corner, who are the most feared teams in the MLB? Surprising to most, the Yankees and the Phillies aren’t at the top of my list. In fact, the tw...

35 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: MLB, Albert Pujols, BJ Upton, Evan Longoria, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays

Bobby Cox Honored as Braves Retire #6

Atlanta Braves by Charlie Miller Today the Atlanta Braves will retire No. 6 in honor of long-time manager Bobby Cox. With 2,504 wins, Cox is fourth all-time. Having won 503 more games than he lost ranks h...

40 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: News, NL East, National League, Bobby Cox, Atlanta Braves

MLB Trade Deadline Winners and Losers

Atlanta Braves by Charlie Miller Winners Philadelphia Phillies After making a run at Carlos Beltran of the Mets, the Phillies acquired Hunter Pence (right) from Houston. It would have been a surprise had ...

42 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News, Carlos Beltran, Hunter Pence, Koji Uehara, Michael Bourn, Mike Adams, Ubaldo Jimenez, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, deals, MLB, trade deadline, trades

Trade Deadline Deals Not Always Worth It

Atlanta Braves by Charlie Miller As soon as the dust settled at the All-Star Game, the chatter around the majors turned to trade talk. Who are the buyers and sellers? Fans want to know. This season, with so m...

43 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Carlos Beltran, Chris Perez, Cliff Lee, Doyle Alexander, Jeff Bagwell, John Smoltz, Lou Brock, Randy Johnson, Tom Seaver, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, St. Louis Cardinals

Who Belongs on the Atlanta Braves' Mt. Rushmore?

Atlanta Braves MLB Mt. Rushmores by Charlie Miller The question posed recently whether Derek Jeter should be considered as part of the Yankees’ Mt. Rushmore piqued my interest. Not really the Jeter-Yank...

45 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Chipper Jones, Hank Aaron, John Smoltz, Warren Spahn, Atlanta Braves

Nine Positive Stories From MLB's First Half

Atlanta Braves By Patrick Snow (@AthlonSnowman on Twitter) You already know about the Dodgers and Mets financial issues, that Adam Dunn has two hits (in 58 at-bats) off of lefties this season, and that the C...

45 weeks ago by Patrick Snow Tags: MLB, Adrian Gonzalez, Joe Bautista, Lance Berkman, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Dodgers, Mets, Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Yankees, First half of MLB season

MLB's Dim-Star Teams

Atlanta Braves Twitter: @4QuartersRadio The MLB All-Stars have been selected, and there is no shortage of debates on the merits of the players who made the mid-summer squads. Most of the candidates, though, h...

46 weeks ago by Scott Henry Tags: MLB, AL Central, AL East, AL West, NL Central, NL East, NL West, American League, National League, Aaron Hill, Adam Dunn, Alex Rios, Carl Crawford, Chad Durbin, Chone Figgins, Chris Coghlan, Dan Uggla, Derrek Lee, Fausto Carmona, Ian Desmond, Jake Westbrook, Jayson Werth, John Buck, Jorge Posada, Lyle Overbay, Miguel Tejada, Raul Ibanez, Reid Brignac, Ryan Franklin, Shin-Soo Choo, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Florida Marlins, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, Washington Nationals

Which MLB Teams Spend Smart? Part 3 (Teams 10-1)

Atlanta Braves See teams ranked 30-21 and for an explanation of the Financial Responsibility Index See teams ranked 20-11. 10. Atlanta Braves, 0.66 FRI (Financial Responsibility Index) --#5 in wins, #7 ...

48 weeks ago by Scott Henry Tags: MLB, American League, National League, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays

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