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The Tampa Bay Rays completed a trade with the Atlanta Braves on Friday, acquiring right-handed pitcher Rafael Soriano and agreeing to a $7.25 million, one-year contract with the reliever.
A person familiar with the deal says the Atlanta Braves are close to trading reliever Rafael Soriano to the Tampa Bay Rays for pitcher Jesse Chavez.
The Atlanta Braves' surplus of late-inning relievers forced the team to part ways with outfielder Ryan Church on Tuesday.
The Braves made another move to strengthen their pitching staff Thursday, agreeing to a $3.2 million, one-year contract with reliever Takashi Saito.
The Atlanta Braves took another major step toward solidifying their pitching staff for next season, agreeing Wednesday to a $7 million, one-year contract with closer Billy Wagner.
Tim Hudson agreed to a $28 million, three-year contract with the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, giving the team a wealth of starting pitching and setting up a likely trade to bolster the offense.
Alberto Gonzalez drove in the winning run with a two-out single in the 15th inning and the Washington Nationals closed the season with a seven-game winning streak, beating the Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Sunday.
Chipper Jones feels as though he's returned to the 1990s.
Ricky Nolasco struck out nine straight Atlanta Braves and set a Marlins record with 16 strikeouts — the most by a major league pitcher in more than two years — in Florida's 5-4 victory Wednesday night.
The Atlanta Braves have forced their way into the playoff picture unburdened by the usual late-season nerves and anxieties. They threw all that stuff out long ago, back when they were so far behind they thought they were pretty much out of it.
Bobby Cox spent the afternoon shaking hands, accepting congratulations and smiling enough to look almost comfortable as the center of all that attention.
Two days after Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox announced he was retiring after next season, some people still don't believe him.
Tim Hudson pitched six effective innings for his second win since major elbow surgery and the Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets 5-2 on Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep.
The Philadelphia Phillies ended rookie Tommy Hanson's streak of 19 consecutive scoreless innings, beating Atlanta 4-2 Sunday and damaging the Braves' faint NL wild-card hopes.
Brian McCann hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the fifth inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the reeling New York Mets 7-3 on Thursday night for their first seven-game winning streak since 2006.
Javier Vazquez took a shutout into the ninth inning, and the Atlanta Braves roughed up Chris Carpenter in a 9-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Garret Anderson drove in three runs, Nate McLouth homered and the Atlanta Braves broke out of their offensive slump with a 9-7 win over Roy Oswalt and the Houston Astros on Thursday night.
Micah Owings walked off the field after getting beaned with the bases loaded in the 12th inning and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves 4-2 on Sunday for their seventh consecutive win.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Nate McLouth is back in uniform after missing 17 games with a strained left hamstring.
Hanley Ramirez hit a tying, pinch-hit single and scored the go-ahead run in his first game since teammate Dan Uggla publicly challenged his effort, lifting the Florida Marlins over the Atlanta Braves 8-3 Thursday night.
Joe Blanton got just enough run support for a change.
Brian McCann wasn't expecting an intentional walk from Florida reliever Renyel Pinto.
Ryan Church is out of the starting lineup for the Atlanta Braves, who are also missing fellow outfielder Garret Anderson and infielder Martin Prado.
Kenshin Kawakami outpitched Johan Santana, Brian McCann hit a solo homer and the Atlanta Braves clawed just a bit further into playoff contention with a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets on Thursday night.
Brian McCann hit a three-run homer and the Atlanta Braves took advantage of another gaffe by Luis Castillo to put together their own eight-run inning in a 15-2 victory over the sluggish New York Mets on Wednesday night.
Platoon considerations notwithstanding, they're more or less the same player:
I missed this previously, but apparently home plate umpire Bill Hohn gave Marlins' catcher John Baker the rock after the Florida-Atlanta game on Wednesday:
The Braves' starters have been fantastic lately so they don't really need him at the moment, but Tim Hudson is rehabbing and looking pretty good in the process. Three starts so far, 8.2 innings, nine hits, five strikeouts, two walks, and an ERA of 3.11.
* Seeing game action for the first time since undergoing Tommy John elbow surgery last August, Tim Hudson tossed two scoreless innings at high Single-A last night. "I felt really good," Hudson said.
* Yunel Escobar has been linked to Oakland and various other teams in trade rumors recently, but Mark Bowman of MLB.com reports that Atlanta "hasn't made a single attempt to even explore the possibility of moving Escobar."
This is the third article about Greg Maddux's number being retired I've seen which focuses on this:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Dave O'Brien mentions -- and then almost immediately scotches -- rumors of a Yunel Escobar for Matt Holliday trade:
After starting him in 70 of their first 80 games, the Rangers finally decided to end Chris Davis' run at the single-season strikeout record Monday by sending him to Triple-A to make room on the roster for Josh Hamilton's return.
After discussing Lou Piniella's first ejection of the season in my last entry, I can't help but show you the spectacular footage of Rome Braves manager Randy Ingle going absolutely nuts after being tossed from a Single-A game recently:
In yesterday's recaps I wondered whether it was time for Brewers fans to finally stop booing Gary Sheffield.
Gobble gobble For a Braves fan, this is simply adding insult to the grievous injury that is having to watch Jeff Francoeur try to play every day:
Crash: Did you hit me with your right hand or did you hit me with your left? Nuke: Huh? Crash: Did you hit me with your right hand or did you hit me with your LEFT? Nuke: My left.
John Smoltz makes his anticipated return to the mound on Thursday. It is also his anticipated debut for the Boston Red Sox, who signed him away from Atlanta in the offseason after the Braves showed somewhat tepid interest in keeping their aging star.
Done and done Tom Glavine texted his almost-retirement to a television reporter last night, writing "I'm not going to pitch or do anything in baseball until at least next year. I want to be a full time dad."
No Brave, not even Chipper, is on pace to drive in 90 runs. The article below is meant to provide a quick look at how my preseason projections match up with the paces of select major league hitters.
During a radio interview this morning John Smoltz said that he expects to make his Red Sox debut on either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week "if everything goes the way it continues to go." Smoltz's arrival in Boston has been pushed back slightly, so he'll make one additional min …
* Not only is Willy Taveras hitless in his last 32 at-bats while misguidedly playing through a hamstring injury, he's failed to reach base at all in eight straight games in which he's had at least two plate appearances.
* Here's the scouting report on recent call-up Barbaro Canizares that an unnamed Braves player gave to Dave O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal Constitution: "I heard he can't run, can't throw, and can't field, but the sum@!$%# can hit." I'm not sure about the running, throwing, and …
- Everyone who watched the first round on the MLB network - It was their first try, but MLB really botched this by giving us a panel of Harold Reynolds, Josh Hart and MLB scouting bureau director Frank Marcos, all of whom liked all 32 picks.
* Craig wasn't kidding about the Nationals having little trouble getting No. 10 overall pick Drew Storen under contract. The draft isn't even over yet and he's already agreed to terms on a deal, with an official announcement coming this afternoon.
* Charlie Manuel refused to take ninth-inning duties away from Brad Lidge despite a 7.27 ERA and six blown saves, but he'll have no choice now that the closer has landed on the disabled list with a sprained knee.
* Bobby Cox won his 2,000th game as Braves manager last night, becoming just the fourth manager in baseball history to reach 2,000 wins with one team. Connie Mack of the A's, John McGraw of the Giants, and Walter Alston of the Dodgers are the other three.
I liked last week's Nate McLouth trade better from the Braves' point of view and felt that the Pirates didn't get a particularly good package of prospects in return, so it's tough to blame his ex-teammates in Pittsburgh for being upset about McLouth's departure.
Tommy Hanson's much-anticipated MLB debut was a bust Sunday as Milwaukee got to the 22-year-old right-hander for seven runs, including three homers.
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