Raising Teenagers

Russell Carlton writes a wonderful blog over at Baseball Prospectus called "Baseball Therapy."  Having only recently become a Baseball Prospectus subscriber -- it only costs $40 per year (!!) and is well worth the investment -- I was not familiar with his writing.  He is thoughtful and excellent and writes about the type of issues facing baseball that I am interested in (and am interested in writing about here).

Payroll and the Internal Salary Cap

It's time to debunk a myth that has been perpetuated by the Atlanta Braves since Ted Turner stopped owning the team. In his autobiography Built to Win, John Scheurholz stated that one offseason he leaked to the media that he was trying to run the Braves on a budget when negotiating to resign Jeff Blauser, and Ted Turner called him and frankly said, “John, what’s this shit I read about a budget? You wanna sign Jeff Blauser, sign him!”  Oh how I miss Trillionaire Ted.

Today I stumbled across some news that has me quite frankly pissed off.  In discussing salaries and league revenues with a friend across different sports, I quickly went to Forbes' annual franchise valuations expecting to see that the Hawks and the Braves have relatively the same amount of revenues which is why the NBA salary cap is a farce.  What I found shocked me:

The Chris Johnson Extension

It's time to write about the baby elephant that has been hiding in the corner of the Braves' extension room. 

First Half Review

Since we are at the All-Star Break, it's a good time for a "first half" review.  The Braves have actually played 95 games, so this is not truly the halfway point (and which is why I support moving the ASB to July 4 weekend).  Rather than write a long soliloquy about every thought I have about every player and decision on this roster, I am going to focus on a few important topics.

Do the Braves win in spite of Frank Wren?

The title of this blog post is taken directly from an article written by Mark Bradley.