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Meat and Potatoes: Atlanta Braves Weekly Recap 3/14/16

By Philip Tapley Jr.

Mar 1, 2016; Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA; Atlanta Braves shortstop Erick Aybar is late with the tag at second base on Baltimore Orioles shortstop Paul Janish (15) during the fourth inning of a spring training baseball game at Champion Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 1, 2016; Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA; Atlanta Braves shortstop Erick Aybar is late with the tag at second base on Baltimore Orioles shortstop Paul Janish (15) during the fourth inning of a spring training baseball game at Champion Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports /
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Feb 29, 2016; Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA; Atlanta Braves pitcher Aaron  Blair fields a ball during spring training workouts at ESPN
Feb 29, 2016; Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA; Atlanta Braves pitcher Aaron  Blair fields a ball during spring training workouts at ESPN /

More News, Notes and Links…

  • Pitching prospects Aaron Blair and Lucas Sims both took steps forward in their last outings. The young hurlers each struck out more than a batter per inning and avoided relinquishing a single earned run in their respective 2-inning appearances.

Tyrell Jenkins went in the other direction, striking out two but surrendering 2 hits and 2 walks to seven batters in his one inning of action. Jenkins has since been optioned to Gwinnett, though the move was certainly not related to the outing mentioned here. We’re left to ponder the over/under on how many days until we see him in Atlanta again…

Here’s a complete rundown of the Braves transactions from the weekend. There’s a bunch.

More from Tomahawk Take

  • Mallex Smith cooled down big time this week, but to be fair he was on a TORRID pace to start the Grapefruit League campaign. He also had a base running blunder on Friday, if you’re into negativity.
  • Are we seeing the beginning of the league turning Freddie Freeman into a walk-asaurus? He had 5 free passes in 10 Plate Appearances last week. That OBP is looking flashy, but let’s hope the Braves can show some life behind Freeman in the order so he can see some strikes and do what he do… mash baseballs. He mashes even when it concerns his soon to be firstborn child, which will be a boy!

Technically, the most recent wrist scare with our golden boy didn’t occur during the baseball week that this edition of M&P is deftly covering, but read about it here.

Links from around MLB

580 The Fan Interview with Matt Wisler

580 The Fan Interview with Aaron Blair

More on Chacin from Mark Bowman

Mike Rizzo could be out as the Nationals GM if his option is not picked up by June 15.

More on the Jhonny Peralta situation in St. Louis from MLB Trade Rumors.

Jenrry Mejia is speaking out against his lifetime ban from MLB for 3 PED violations (via New York Times). I wrote about the suspension here for Modern Pastime, as well.

Is the AL East the most competitive division in baseball this year?

Former MLB star Goose Gossage has been up in arms about recent Bryce Harper comments about unwritten rules in baseball.

Adrian Gonzalez will take time off from Spring Training to play for the Mexican team during World Baseball Classic qualifiers. Tune in, yall. The WBC is something to celebrate (though I’m sure Dodgers fans have mixed feelings about their star missing time with the MLB club).

The Marlins are interested in Tim Lincecum as a bullpen option. Not exactly flattering for the former standout, but whaddya gonna do?

 

Next: Have We Been too Hard on Adonis Garcia?

That’ll do for now, folks. Let me know if you think I missed something worth including in the comments! 

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