 Tom Glavine is working his way towards rejoining his Atlanta Braves teammates on the field. His wife, Chris, however, is working on expanding their family. This is a great read about Glaves’ wife and her chance encounter that led to Tom standing in a delivery room (which I’ll be doing soon myself!). If you needed another reason to like Glavine, look no farther.
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It may have taken longer than we expected, but Chan Ho Park has been removed from the starting rotation for the defending Wold Series champs. Taking his place will be J.A. Happ. Happ would be considered a deep sleeper, and is not a must add at this point....
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I do not know how we missed it, or how no one that heard gave us a heads up, but apparently Mat Gamel got the call last week. He pinch hit last Thursday in his first Major League action of the year. It did not go well, as he struck out, but he did get his first start of the year yesterday. In said start, Gamel went 1 – 3 with his first big league homer, t...
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There are tons of players in MLB that do not get anywhere near the attention or credit they deserve. Jason Werth is one of those players, as anyone in the Philly market knows. Well, now the rest of the league has caught on, because in a recent poll conducted by MLB.com, Major League execs and managers voted in favor of Werth and Adrian Gonzalez as theNL’s two most u...
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According to Ken Rosenthal, our good buddy over at FoxSports.com (yeah, he has no clue that we are alive over here), MLB and Fox have agreed topush up the start times for all weeknight playoff games. Each one will now see a first pitch at 7:57 p.m., which is great news to us East coast fans. To make the news even better, no weekend games will start later than that either, and some will...
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There is never enough time for me to point the spotlight at players having great years. Just when it was time for me to bring you up to speed on Kris Medlen, a right-handed pitcher in the Braves system, he gets called up to the Bigs on Friday. Jo-Jo Reyes is being sent to the bully, and replacing him in the rotation will be Medlen.
In his six starts for AAA Gwinnett this year, dud...
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If you are one of the many who scooped up Matt LaPorta when he was called up, you have probably been pretty disappointed so far. Fret not, young man (or old man or young woman or old woman), for LaPorta is starting to swing the bat well and show some patience at the plate. Dude had his first multi-hit game in the Bigs yesterday, and he has a hit in each of his last four games. La...
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Tom Glavine threw a bullpen session at Citi Field in New York on Wednesday, and all indications are that he is on track to return to the Braves later this month. Glaves hopes to pitch in the Bigs in May, but he still has to regain more arm strength. His velocity, which is sitting around 81mph on his fastball, will probably not improve very much, as dude is 43 years old. If G...
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J.A. Happ will return to the starting rotation Saturday night for the second game of a doubleheader. Do not get too excited, as this is kind of a spot start due to the two game day. This game is at DC, so it is a viable spot start for Happ if you need it. Proceed with caution....
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Big tip of the hat to Heather Dinich for emailing me about this article at StarNewsOnline. Okay, Heather did not email me, but she did link to the article in yesterday’s ACC Lunchtime Links. Great read on Wilson, who wants to play both football and baseball professionally. At 5'11? tall, playing QB in the NFL will be a tough task, but if anyone can do it it just might b...
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