Michael Bourn

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Bourn’s Mistake

  The rumors started swirling around what Michael Bourn would be looking for in free agency about halfway through last season, up to five years/$15-17 million. The end of the season came and the Braves…Read More

2012 Review: Michael Bourn

To start the player reviews, I figured I’d start at the top of the lineup with Michael Bourn.  At the beginning of the season, most fans were excited to see the first true speed threat in the leadoff…Read More

What’s The Braves’ Next Move

  The annual second half chess game is underway. This is the game where GMs try to do in the last two weeks what they weren’t able to do in the previous year, put together a team to win a championship.…Read More

Justin Upton Isn’t Coming to the Atlanta Braves

Well I wasn’t really planning this post but I can’t really keep myself from writing it. The topic has been covered by David Lee over at Capitol Avenue Club but with all of the tweets and especially…Read More

The Best All-Around Outfields of All-Time

I was going through the WAR leaderboards on Fangraphs, looking to find the deserving starting candidates.  I was surprised when I reached the standings for the NL outfielders.  Braun was at the top…Read More

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What Happens When Brian McCann Just Doesn’t Make Sense?

Brian McCann is one of my favorite players on the Braves team, and I’m guessing he’s one of your…Read More

Does Atlanta Really Need To “Find” A Third Baseman For 2013?

With the MLB Draft coming up soon, people have again started to bring up the positions that will need…Read More

Does Adam Jones’ Contract Raise Michael Bourn’s Price?

Ken Rosenthal at Fox sports tweets that the Orioles are about to ink Adam Jones to a six year $85M contract.…Read More

Is Michael Bourn To Be A Brave and Other Free Agent Questions

Following on yesterday’s look at how the Braves might look at contract options and arbitration eligible…Read More

Season So Far: Michael Bourn

Well guys, I am officially back in business on the site and I can honestly say that I have missed it.…Read More

While Brandon Beachy Roasted Redbirds The Braves Ordered Pie

Last night as Brandon Beachy was proving he ,rather than Tommy Hanson is headed to the top of the Braves…Read More

Michael Bourn and the Importance of BABIP

I had an idea for another trivia question based on Michael Bourn’s combination of whiffs and lack…Read More

Braves Complete Sweep of Brewers, Improve to 5-4

Well the Braves pulled off  the sweep after a solid outing from Brandon Beachy and some offense on the…Read More

Braves bring some momentum back to Atlanta; evidence for not looking deep into early stats

That was definitely the way the Braves wanted to end the series against Houston after botching (literally)…Read More

Series Review: Games 1-3

Series Roundup It was a rough start to the Braves season. Three games where they had chances to win but…Read More

0-1: Braves Forget Bats To Opener, Fall To Mets

It was all the pomp and circumstance of Opening Day. Optimism reigned as the Atlanta Braves took the…Read More

The Braves Drafts Reviewed Part IV 2003-2007

If this is the first time you’ve seen this where have you been  . . So far I’ve looked at: The Braves…Read More

Volatility of Atlanta Braves Hitters

I did a post a while back where I used an extremely rough and inaccurate method to judge the consistency…Read More

Who was the Braves most consistent hitter in 2011?

Right now I am in the middle of a statistics class and we recently went over standard deviation. For…Read More

2012 Player Projections: Michael Bourn

I hate the format that everyone seems to go by when doing player projections. C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS etc.…Read More