Former Atlanta Brave Justin Upton Gets Married
By Jeff Schafer
When do pitchers and catchers report? 2015 spring training reporting dates for all teams
Tomahawk Take Editor’s Note: As January flies by, us baseball fans are anticipating the start of the MLB season. The Braves mandatory date for pitchers and catchers is February 20 and the full squad is February 25. Most of the players show up ahead of this date for “voluntary” workouts.
Baseball season is getting close, as pitchers and catchers for all 30 teams report to spring training next month.
This year’s reporting dates:
GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE
(Pitchers and catchers | full squad)
Atlanta Braves: Friday, Feb. 20 | Wednesday, Feb. 25
Braves’ offseason reshuffle highlighted by added organizational pitching depth
Tomahawk Take Editor’s Note: The Braves have done lots of reshaping in the past few months and Atlanta’s President of Baseball Operations, John Hart, still believes they have made all the right decisions. Though fans are still hoping for a successful 2015 season, it’s looking more and more like the Braves will be average.
“Championship organizations do a lot of self-examination,” Hart said at the time. “The game, I’ve always felt, is about the players. You need to have good players. You want to have them in your system. The ability to acquire those players comes from a variety of different ways, but generally from your scouting staff, the development people take the talent that you have.”
His boss didn’t disagree.
“Scouting and player development is the lifeblood of any major league baseball organization,” Schuerholz echoed. “You look at a major league organization and you see the top 10 percent of the iceberg when you see a major league team play. And then 90 percent unseen by most people is what goes on down in player development, scouting, international scouting, et cetera, et cetera. Where the organization is formed and where its strength is created, certainly we spent time looking at that and analyzing that and focusing on that. We’re doing that now.”
Justin Upton Wedding
Congratulations to former Atlanta Braves outfielder, Justin Upton as he got married Saturday. Many current and former Braves teammates were in attendance. If you’d like to see more use #OnceUptonAtime on Instagram