FINAL: Braves 6, Marlins 5 Dom Smith's the hero once again. I'm going LIVE over on Locked On Sports Atlanta with Jake of Locked On Braves to celebrate the greatness of Dom Smith. Join us, won't you? youtube.com/live/uLsVBes...

NEWS: The Braves today outrighted LHP Martín Pérez to Triple-A Gwinnett, and he elected free agency. He could still re-sign

The pitcher that Murphy will be catching on Thursday in Rome is Spencer Strider, who is scheduled for 45-50 pitches in the first of three planned rehab outings.

#Braves lineup for game two vs Miami: RF Ronald Acuña Jr. C Drake Baldwin 1B Matt Olson 3B Austin Riley LF Mike Yastrzemski 2B Ozzie Albies DH Dominic Smith CF Michael Harris II SS Mauricio Dubón

#Braves organizational starters for today, as submitted to MiLB: MLB (7:15): Reynaldo López AAA (7:05): Didier Fuentes AA (6:05): TBD A+ (6:00): Jeremy Reyes A (7:05): TBD

NEWS: The #Braves continue shuffling their bullpen, optioning down Rolddy Muñoz and calling up Hayden Harris

FINAL: Marlins 10, Braves 4 Not only did they lose, but they also took forever to do it (just over a 3:00 game time). Jake & I are still going live for some postgame therapy, though, over on Locked On Sports Atlanta Join us, yeah? youtube.com/live/vbNx30P...

#Braves lineup tonight versus Miami at 7:15 RF Ronald Acuna Jr C Drake Baldwin 1B Matt Olson 3B Austin Riley LF Mike Yastrzemski 2B Ozzie Albies DH Dominic Smith CF Michael Harris II SS Mauricio Dubon We're getting close to the point where Yaz being up this high is a "yikes"

NEWS: Due to the minor league schedule this week, Sean Murphy's rehab stint has been moved to High-A Rome for the week. He's expected to be in the lineup on Tuesday

NEW POD: The Atlanta Braves' offense powered them to a series win despite being shut down on Saturday night, while the DFA of Martín Pérez over José Suarez was confusing but could still work out if Didier Fuentes gets to come back up.

NEWS: The #Braves have optioned LHP Dylan Dodd to Gwinnett after he pitched three innings last night, replacing him with RHP Rolddy Muñoz

Mauricio Dubón has been one of the Braves’ most valuable players early this season. But what is that role actually worth? New Anthopoulogy: Should Atlanta extend him? ⬇️

Here is Today's Three Things from Atlanta's obliteration of the Cleveland Guardians, including praise for the bottom of the order and acknowledgement of how Chris Sale battled through traffic to deliver an excellent start. open.substack.com/pub/bravesto...

BLOUSES! FINAL: Braves 13, Guardians 1 Atlanta takes the series and is the only team in MLB to have not lost one yet. I'm going LIVE with my guy Jake over on Locked On Sports Atlanta to talk about it. Join us, won't you? youtube.com/live/64rXfLX...

The #Braves are facing a POSITION (•_•) <) )╯ / \ \(•_•) ( (> PLAYER / \ (•_•) <) )> PITCHING / \ (It's Austin Hedges, backup catcher)

Final line for Chris Sale: 6IP, 8H, 1ER, 1BB/6Ks on 97 pitches (68 strikes). Gave up one solo shot to Rhys Hoskins, but otherwise had 10 whiffs and a 32% CSW while hitting 99 on the four-seamer

the boys putting the ABS in abysmal when it comes to challenging 😵‍💫

The Braves are OUT of challenges and it's the third inning

NEWS: Not yet official, but the Braves will DFA Martín Pérez and replace him with lefty reliever Dylan Dodd ahead of today's game. Pérez's rotation spot would have come back around on Thursday but it's an off day; they may not need to find a 5th starter until next week

#Braves organizational starters today, as submitted to MiLB MLB (7:20): Chris Sale AAA (1:05): JR Ritchie AA (4:33): Drue Hackenberg A+ (2:05): Colin Daniel A (2:05): Kendy Richard Whew that's a good slate

Here is Today's Three Things from Atlanta's shutout loss to the Cleveland Guardians, including the downstream effects of José Suarez's rough outing yesterday, no performance from the bottom of the order, and a better video of Jonah Heim's awful error open.substack.com/pub/bravesto...

FINAL: Guardians 6, Braves 0 Atlanta drops an ugly contest after they can't figure out Parker Messick. I'm going live with Jake over on Locked On Sports Atlanta for some postgame therapy. Join us, yeah? youtube.com/live/eoMtwE3...

#Braves lineup versus Guardians (who have lefty Parker Messick on the mound) RF Ronald Acuña Jr DH Drake Baldwin 2B Ozzie Albies 1B Matt Olson 3B Austin Riley CF Mauricio Dubón LF Mike Yastrzemski (!) C Jonah Heim SS Jorge Mateo First pitch at 7:15

No member of the Braves roster has seen tonight's Guardians starter, Parker Messick, in his young MLB career. It's now even *more* important than ever that Atlanta installed a Trajekt machine last year. My story from February on it: open.substack.com/pub/bravesto...

#Braves organizational starters for Saturday 4/11, as submitted to MiLB MLB (7:15): Martín Pérez AAA (6:05): Lucas Braun AA (7:05): Brett Sears A+ (5:05): Cade Kuehler A (7:05): Zach Royse

NEWS: Michael Harris II has gone onto the paternity list, being replaced by utility man Luke Williams.

Here is Today's Three Things from Atlanta's 11-5 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday night, including details on how Atlanta's big sixth inning unfolded and the José Suarez question.

BLOUSES. FINAL: Braves 11, Guardians 5 That was fun. Let’s talk about it. We’re going LIVE now over on Locked On Sports Atlanta. youtube.com/live/cWjJpLs...

Credit to Cleveland's broadcast team for not being afraid to be impressed/in awe of this moonshot

#Braves lineup for City Connect Saturday versus the Guardians RF Ronald Acuña Jr. (R) C Drake Baldwin (L) 1B Matt Olson (L) 3B Austin Riley (R) LF Mike Yastrzemski (L) 2B Ozzie Albies (S) DH Dominic Smith (L) CF Michael Harris II (L) SS Mauricio Dubón (R)

NEWS: The start of Sean Murphy’s rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Gwinnett has been delayed due to a family matter.

#Braves organization starters for Friday, as submitted to MiLB. MLB (7:15): Bryce Elder AAA (7:05): Elieser Hernández AA (7:35): Garrett Baumann A+ (7:35): Cam Caminiti A (7:05): Ethan Bagwell

NEW POD: Can Mauricio Dubón keep up his hot start at the plate? Should Atlanta call up Didier Fuentes to preserve his option? Previewing the Cleveland Guardians this weekend

The Braves look bad at ABS challenges so far. It's actually a volume and timing issue, and when they do get it right, it’s been impactful. I broke it all down for premium subscribers ⬇️

Mauricio Dubón was thrown into the starting shortstop role in January due to an injury to Ha-Seong Kim. Two weeks into the season, he's not only surviving, he's thriving. Contributor Taylor took some time to give Dubón his flowers for the quality all-around play. open.substack.com/pub/bravesto...

#Braves organizational starters for Thursday, April 9th MLB: OFF, finally! AAA (7:05): Carlos Carrasco AA (7:35): Owen Murphy A+ (7:35): Cedric De Grandpre A (7:05): Landon Beidelschies

The Atlanta Braves are 8-5 and tied for the best run differential in baseball at +34. If you make their blowout 17-2 win over the Diamondbacks into a 3-2 win, their new run differential of +20 is still the best in the NL East and fourth best in all of MLB

NEW POD: The Atlanta Braves are in first place at 8-5 after their long thirteen-game opening stretch without an off day. What's powering this, and is it sustainable?

The box score doesn’t show it, but Austin Riley looked different this week. Here’s what stood out in his approach ⬇️

BLOUSES FINAL: Braves 8, Angels 2 Braves take the series and get to a well-deserved off day at 8-5. I'm going live over on Locked On Sports Atlanta with my guy Jake to break this one down. Let's talk about it youtube.com/live/mW41aA6...

Final line for Grant Holmes: 6.2 IP, 5H, 2ER, 3BB/6Ks on 99 pitches (62 strikes) 13 whiffs (including SIX on the four-seamer) and a 26% CSW ERA on the season is now down to 2.55

I'd rather not do a video version of my podcast, but the distribution (and money) on YT is significantly better than on audio, I own that feed (while I don't own the audio feed - it's hosted by the company I'm partnered with), and folks want to see Bandit sleeping in the background Bandit tax:

This ball is not hit that deep - just 272 feet from home plate - but Ronald scores from third ahead of Mike Trout's 90.0 mph throw home 1-0 Atlanta in the top of the first

NEWS: Jorge Soler and Reynaldo López are both suspended for seven games for last night's brawl. Both are appealing and will be allowed to play during the process

Zach does a wonderful job enunciating something I struggled with when explaining Tatsuya Imai on the podcast during the offseason Imai's slider behaves so differently from every other righty slider that we shouldn't be calling it that. @pitchingninja.com is going with "Fader". I went with "shutto"

#Braves lineup today for finale vs Angels: RF Ronald Acuña Jr DH Drake Baldwin 2B Ozzie Albies 1B Matt Olson 3B Austin Riley SS Mauricio Dubón LF Mike Yastrzemskio C Jonah Heim CF Michael Harris II Grant Holmes gets the ball at 4:07 PM ET

NEWS: Atlanta Braves SS prospect Jose Perdomo has been placed on the full-season injured list, ending his season. He tripped and fell coming out of the batter's box and suffered a knee injury. He had hamstring issues that limited him to eight DSL games in 2024 and 54 FCL games last year

NEW POD: What's the fallout going to be from the Jorge Soler/Reynaldo López fight, and could Atlanta use it to try and win Rookie of the Year? Also, Ronald Acuña Jr.'s sprint speed continues to drop - is it concerning or just a small sample size?

Atlanta's organizational starters for Wednesday, April 8th: MLB: Grant Holmes (4:07 PM ET) AAA: Didier Fuentes (6:35 PM ET) AA: Herick Hernandez (12:00 PM ET) A+: Jeremy Reyes (7:35 PM ET) A: Derek Vartanian *PROFESSIONAL DEBUT* (7:05 PM ET)

Walt Weiss shooting the legs to take down Jorge Soler was not an outcome I predicted when I started today's game