Braves to retire Glavine’s No. 47
Tom Glavine thought of his rocky first full season with the Atlanta Braves when the team announced Tuesday it will retire his number.
Glavine’s highlights with the Braves included two NL Cy Young awards and the decisive win over the Cleveland Indians in the 1995 World Series.
Before he enjoyed five seasons with 20 or more wins with Atlanta, Glavine went 7-17 in 1988. He says at that point there was no way he could know his No. 47 would one day be retired by the team.
“It’s not something you ever envisioned and not something I ever envisioned, certainly with the way my career started in Atlanta,” Glavine told The Associated Press.
The Braves will induct Glavine into the team’s Hall of Fame and retire his number on Aug. 6 before a home game against the San Francisco Giants.
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Bobby Cox on Jason Heyward: ‘Don’t expect miracles now’
The first thing Bobby Cox said to me after the game was, “Don’t expect miracles now.”
And part of me felt like saying, “You mean we shouldn’t expect Jason Heyward to hit 162 homers and drive in 648 runs this season? Why not? He’s on pace to do it.” But the bigger part of me said (grudgingly), “Yeah, you’re right.”
We waited long to see what the new guy could do, and with his first swing he gave us reason to believe. But baseball, as we know, is a game of failure. The best hitters make outs seven times in 10, et cetera. And Heyward, who’s the best-looking rookie any of us has ever beheld, is nonetheless a rookie.
He won’t hit 162 home runs in 2010. He might not hit 25. (He had only 29 homers in the minors.) We — and I plead guiltier than anyone — spent yesterday falling all over ourselves to gush, but in the cold light of Tuesday morning we — and I’m talking to myself here, too — have to remember: The guy’s 20; he hasn’t yet figured out everything.
Although it must be said that the least surprised person at Turner Field on Monday was … Jason Heyward. Someone asked if he’d ever dreamed of hitting a home run as a Brave, and he almost laughed off the question. “If I played here in my home town, I’d hope I’d hit a home run in 81 games,” he said.
Click here to read the full article – By Mark Bradley of Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Reliever Gonzalez goes with Boras
Mike Gonzalez has already drawn strong attention from a number of different teams looking for a closer and as he continues to determine where he’ll pitch next year, he’ll do so under the advisement of Scott Boras.
Two Major League sources have confirmed that Gonzalez recently chose Boras to serve as his agent. The veteran reliever had previously been represented by Dan Lozano of the Beverly Hills Sports Council.
With the addition of Gonzalez to his star-studded stable, Boras now possesses one of the top available relievers on this year’s free-agent market. The 31-year-old lefty posted a 2.42 ERA and limited opponents to a .209 batting average in the career-high 80 appearances he made for the Braves this past season.
Click here to read the full article – By Mark Bowman of MLB.com
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Braves end season with six-game skid
Their season finale Sunday lasted 15 innings and nearly 4 1/2 hours and ended ingloriously in a 2-1 loss against the Washington Nationals at Turner Field, leaving the Braves with a six-game losing streak as the final act in a season that crashed from a promising peak six days before.
In under a week, the Braves went from a 15-2 tear that brought them to within 2 1/2 games of wild-card leader Colorado, to finishing third in the National League East behind Florida.
The Braves lost all four games in the series – the first time they were ever swept in a four-game home series against the Montreal/Washington franchise — despite strong performances from starting pitching in three, including Tim Hudson’s seven innings Sunday (seven hits and seven strikeouts).
“We just didn’t do much with the bats the entire homestand,” said manager Bobby Cox, whose club scored just nine runs in 44 innings against the NL’s worst pitching staff and a Nationals team that came to town with a major-league most 103 losses – and left with 103.
Click here to read the full article – By David O’Brien of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Winning season gives Braves confidence
Discouraged that they weren’t able to complete their goal of reaching the playoffs, the Braves are determined to finish the season strong and maintain some of the momentum they built over the course of the past couple of weeks.
Chipper Jones said that if somebody had told him at the beginning of the season that Atlanta would notch 90 victories, he would have predicted a playoff spot.
The bid for 90 victories ended on Thursday night, when the Braves lost a third consecutive game. But regardless of what happens the rest of the way, they have come a long way from the 72-90 campaign they endured last year.
Click here to read the full article – By Mark Bowman of MLB.com
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Braves pushing for playoffs with drive
Chipper Jones feels as though he’s returned to the 1990s.
Those were giddy times for the Atlanta Braves, who won their division just about every season and often made it to the World Series – five times by the time the decade was done.
Well, look who’s making an improbable bid for the playoffs.
Yep, it’s the Braves, the franchise that fell on hard times after the last of its record 14 straight division titles in 2005.
A 4-0 shutout of the Florida Marlins on Monday night was Atlanta’s 15th victory in 17 games, closing the gap on Colorado in the wild-card race to two games. The Braves haven’t even given up on chasing down defending World Series champion Philadelphia in the NL East, pulling within four games of the division leader.
There’s only six games left in the regular season, so Atlanta still faces long and longer odds to catch either team. But this late-season run has sure made things a lot more fun around the clubhouse for players who had almost forgotten what it was like to play meaningful games in September.
Click here to read the full article – By PAUL NEWBERRY of TheItem.com
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Chipper aggravates left groin injury
Chipper Jones’ return to the Braves’ lineup may have been further delayed on Wednesday night, when he aggravated his strained left groin muscle during an eighth-inning pinch-hit appearance.
After the Braves claimed their 6-5 walk-off win over the Mets, Jones revealed that he’d felt further discomfort while swinging and missing a pitch during his eighth-inning strikeout. The 37-year-old third baseman declared himself available to pinch-hit after taking numerous swings in the indoor batting cage.
“I’ll just take it day-by-day,” Jones said. “I took 100 swings [in the cage] and I didn’t feel it one time. That’s why I didn’t even think about it. But I guess there’s no simulating game-intensity swings. I’ll have to see how it feels tomorrow and see if I can play.”
Click here to read the full article – By Mark Bowman of MLB.com
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A healthy Hudson presents choices
Tim Hudson will have to wait a few more months before regaining all of the arm strength that he possessed before undergoing Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery last year. But based on what he’s already shown during his first three starts back from a grueling rehab process, the 34-year-old right-hander has seemingly already provided himself a good chance to remain with the Braves beyond this season
“[Hudson] has thrown really well during these first couple starts back,” Braves general manager Frank Wren said. “We know his makeup. We know his work ethic. We know his competitiveness. We’d like to have him pitching in Atlanta for a long time.”
In order to gain the financial flexibility needed to keep Hudson, the Braves may need to trade either Kenshin Kawakami or Javier Vazquez, whose $11.5 million cost for the 2010 season would be deemed a bargain if he’s able to repeat the success he’s enjoyed this year.
Click here to read the full article – By Mark Bowman of MLB.com
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Vazquez named NL Player of the Week
With the stellar effort he produced against the Cardinals on Sunday afternoon, Javier Vazquez displayed precision that led Braves manager Bobby Cox to draw a comparison to some of Greg Maddux’s masterpieces.
In addition, Vazquez also caught the attention of Major League Baseball, which announced Monday afternoon that he had been named the National League’s Player of the Week.
In the 16 innings he completed during his two starts against the Astros and Cardinals last week, Vazquez allowed two runs, registered 17 strikeouts and issued just four walks. The 33-year-old right-hander’s only other Player of the Week Award came last August, while he was pitching for the White Sox.
Click here to read the full article – By Mark Bowman of MLB.com
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Hudson earns key win for Braves in return
As he endured the grueling rehab process that followed Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery, there were times when Tim Hudson wondered if he’d possess his successful form once this day finally arrived.
Those bouts waged against anxiety and impatience proved to be distant memories by the time Hudson exited the mound at Land Shark Stadium on Tuesday night. His long wait proved fruitful courtesy of the impressive return he constructed while leading the Braves to a 4-3 win over the Marlins.
“I’m just happy for the opportunity to go out there and see my teammates behind me and see how happy they were for me to get back out there and compete,” Hudson said. “It’s been a while. It’s been a long, tough road. But it was very rewarding to go out there and give us a chance to win.”
Click here to read the full article – By Mark Bowman of MLB.com
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