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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Last season it looked like a near certainty that the Atlanta Braves would make the playoffs in the National League. It was right there in their grasp during the final month of the season. Instead Atlanta collapsed as they went 2-8 in their final 10 games, including five straight losses to ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Chipper Jones has decided it's finally time to announce his retirement. As the third basemen of the Atlanta Braves approaches the age of 40 he is doing all he can to share wisdom with the future of the club. It came to a point where Jones did not want to ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Chipper Jones is giving it another go this season after having knee surgery mid-way through last season to be healthy for September and October. It turned out that the Atlanta Braves had a massive October collapse last season and saw their postseason hopes fade away as the St.Louis Cardinals took ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
What a night for Major League Baseball. Not one, but two races came down to the final day. And both were almost equally as improbable. The American League Wild Card race unsurprisingly got more publicity, but in the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals have punched their ticket to October ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Chipper Jones left Friday night's game against Philadelphia with his mind made up that he was going to have surgery on his injured knee. He subsequently elected to withdraw from the All-Star game in Phoenix, which in turn paved the way for Scott Rolen to replace him on the National League ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Our former colleague Tim Gunter couldn't have put it any better: At the start of the 2011 MLB Winter Meetings,the Atlanta Braves made the first big splash of the off-season when they acquired Dan Uggla from the Marlins in exchange for Omar Infante and Mike Dunn. The two-time All-Star and ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
After Chipper Jones tore his ACL for the second time in his career last season, the thought around baseball was that this was it for one of the game's greatest switch hitters ever. Jones didn't get the message. He wasn't ready to put down his bat and hang up his ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The Atlanta Braves haven't exactly had the best start to the 2011 season as they had hoped for with a record of 7-9. The Braves recently swept a doubleheader with the Mets over the weekend, but lost the finale on Sunday, to finish out with a record of 4-6 in ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
In one of the more amazing stories of spring training, Atlanta Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar was able to return to Braves camp yesterday. Two weeks ago this might not have seemed like a legitimate possibility. If you haven’t heard the story, Salazar was standing on the top step ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
In a frightening on-field accident less than two weeks ago, Atlanta Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar was struck on the left side of his face by a foul ball hit off the bat of Brian McCann. He laid on the ground unconscious for 20 minutes and was airlifted off ...
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