There has been no shortage of surprising developments in the 2024 season. Whether they are good or bad developments, or on the player or team-wide level, there are plenty of trends that have already shifted the arc of this season. With the help of each club's MLB.com beat writer, here

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ATLANTA -- It might have been Chris Sale's night. But this has been Marcell Ozuna's year. Ozuna regained the MLB lead in home runs (12) and RBIs (38) as he enjoyed his second multihomer game of the season in the Braves’ 5-0 win over the Red Sox on Wednesday night

ATLANTA – No matter what uniform Chris Sale wears, the following is indisputable: When his fastball is powerful and his slider is in full dive mode, he is dominant. Pitching for his new team (the Braves) while facing his most recent former team (the Red Sox), Sale had his two

Big league closers can come from all areas of the pitching world. Some are guys who have always been relievers, from college all the way up to the big leagues. Some were starters whose power stuff (and perhaps lack of command) were better suited for shorter stints coming out of

ATLANTA -- Marcell Ozuna delivered the go-ahead single in the decisive two-run eighth and Jarred Kelenic homered for the first time this year. But Aaron Bummer's damage control in the sixth inning may have been the most important contribution in the Braves’ 4-2 win over the Red Sox on Tuesday

After a multi-season hiatus, Crooked Numbers returns with a heaping portion of Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. This edition, covering the start of the season through the end of April, has a disproportionate number of items from the Triple-A level. As for why that is, who knows? Maybe

LOS ANGELES -- The oft-used baseball adage is that good pitching beats good hitting. That was certainly the case for the Braves over the past week as they struggled to score runs against two of the top pitching staffs in baseball. The Braves dropped the series finale to the Dodgers,

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LOS ANGELES -- Bryce Elder had shown positive signs since returning to the Braves rotation. But his encounter with the Dodgers on Saturday night was met with all kinds of trouble. The Atlanta right-hander allowed seven hits -- three of them homers. Location issues contributed to four walks. That combination

LOS ANGELES -- The Braves finally ended their uncharacteristic homerless drought on Friday night. It still wasn’t enough to snap their offense out of its recent funk. Austin Riley and Ronald Acuña Jr. homered, but the Braves repeatedly came up empty in big moments and fell to the Dodgers 4-3

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April is in the books, but there’s still plenty of baseball left to be played this season, and you can follow all the action on MLB.TV for a new reduced price. MLB.TV’s All Teams Yearly package, which enables you to stream every out-of-market game, live or on demand, on your

Pitchers are meant to be ahead of hitters. Sluggers need at-bats to get into the rhythm of the season, and that takes time. Or at least that’s how the popular belief goes. But some Minor League hitters are proving they don’t need time at all to come flying out of

SEATTLE -- When Austin Riley was slumping over April’s final weeks last season, it was playfully suggested that a big country boy like him didn’t need to be eating avocado toast, his breakfast choice at a San Diego restaurant last year. Riley started rolling as May progressed. So, as the

SEATTLE -- Marcell Ozuna continues to reward the Braves for the patience they maintained as he followed a couple unproductive seasons marred by legal issues with one of the worst months in franchise history. “I think he is very appreciative that we did hang in there with him, because it

You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

This is an excerpt from the latest edition of the Ben's Biz Beat Newsletter, bringing Minor League Baseball business and culture news to your inbox each and every Thursday. Check out the full newsletter HERE. For David Kerr, working in Minor League Baseball means keeping the following mantra in mind:

With April having come to a close, we are a full month-plus into the 2024 season -- which means the events of the past month are worth analyzing. Sure, it’s just one month into a six-month regular season, but plenty of trends have already begun to take shape. Let’s take

Whenever a Draft list is updated for the first time since December, there are bound to be a lot of changes up and down the rankings. This year's new Draft Top 150 takes that to an extreme, speaking to the volatility and uncertainty of the class outside of the top

SEATTLE -- It didn’t take long for thoughts of a no-no to be replaced with the frustration that followed the "oh no" pitch that doomed the Braves in their 2-1 loss to the Mariners on Monday night at T-Mobile Park. “One bad pitch can lose you the game,” Braves reliever

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SEATTLE -- Jarred Kelenic acknowledged the chasm of the setting almost immediately. As he sat atop a dugout bench at T-Mobile Park on Monday, faced a handful of cameras and answered questions in a pre-arranged setting, even Kelenic recognized the backdrop from last July, after a self-inflicted injury from kicking