#Alex Anthopoulos

[danieljreboot]

Marcell Ozuna’s option will most likely be exercised and Ronald Acuña Jr. is still expected to be ready around Opening Day next year. But the Braves are planning for Jorge Soler to also remain a key asset beyond the remainder of this season.

“It’s no secret that we wanted to upgrade from an offensive standpoint,” Braves president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos said. “Getting on-base [percentage] and power were priorities for us. Jorge is the best combination of those two things. He was the best bat available in our minds for what we want to do.”

[jimi-rawlings]

Nike just banned me from fucking Greek Girls because of Alex Anthopoulos because of the Osuna Signing.

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[thebytenews]

3 prospects the Braves should trade, but only for Dylan Cease

With the MLB GM meetings underway in Scottsdale, there is plenty of buzz abound regarding free agency and possible trades. As the Atlanta Braves come off of another NLDS exit despite a phenomenal regular season, those are both markets that many expect Alex Anthopoulos to make a big move, particularly with a focus on upgrading the club’s starting pitching. And it seems there might be one possible…

[bogdanovics]

alex anthopoulos must’ve negotiated that contract bc that’s a steal

[phatpax3000]

Great news today. The Braves are changing their name. Not only is it politically correct and long over due. It's a sign that next season starts today. Alex Anthopoulos is picking his team up. He started his career as an unpaid intern. Sorting fan mail. Perseverance is the only way to win. (And luck. Lol). On a practical level they are testing a logo at a minor league affiliate. Original thinking. Now they can see the fan response. Fans buy Jerseys. Alex Anthopoulos is uniting Atlanta. Great leader.

[jennifermnhi]

The Atlanta Braves Need Alex To Pick Up The Phone |ATL Day Ones Jarvis n Tenitra |7/17/23 Pt 2 [Video]

[news247planet]

#insider #signing #MLB MLB Insider: What signing Chad Pinder means for the Braves at shortstop https://news247planet.com/?p=419053

[outfieldflyrule]

New OFR Top Prospects List for 2023

RHP Owen Murphy takes a moment in the Augusta dugout prior to his SRP Park debut, September 2, 2022. (Augusta Greenjackets) Click Here To Jump Right To The List This year’s top prospect list looks completely different from recent years and is a million miles from the embarrassingly loaded lists following the organizational rebuild of the mid-2010s. Team president Alex Anthopoulos has raided the…

[danieljreboot]

1. Braves (previously: 1) This is increasingly looking like the most stable organization in baseball, further evidenced by the recent extension of president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos. The Braves had the best record in the Majors last year, they’ve finished first in their division six years in a row, they won the World Series three years ago, and all their stars are wrapped up for years to come. I hope you like the Braves, or can at least tolerate them, because this is what they’re going to look like for the foreseeable future: one of the best teams in baseball. The spring has been smooth sailing for them, and now they have Chris Sale. And on and on they go.

[apwmagazine]

Has The Braves Stretched Max Fried Already Passed?

Has The Braves Stretched Max Fried Already Passed?

The Atlanta Braves have stretched young stars often but Max Fried is not among them. Has the south door lock window already passed? Atlanta Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos and the rest of the front office were praised for the organization’s ability to lock in star players in stretches, especially ones that were crucially team-friendly. Whether it’s Ronald Acuna Jr., Austin Riley, Matt…

[jaysgirlemily]

I want nothing but good things for Anthopoulos - skip over the GM hiring stuff if you wish - but there’s some really nice stuff about Roy halfway down. 

He remembered when travelling secretary Mike Shaw’s father died, and the funeral was the day after a night game, and Halladay was the only one who showed up.

[Doc��s Box] was decorated with all sorts of things Halladay liked, and believed.“There was a mural on the wall, showing all the things Roy liked,” said Anthopoulos. “And one of them was words to live by. And it said, ‘Always do more than you have to.’ ”

[sch-nn]

i miss u alex anthopoulos

[bongaboi]

Atlanta Braves: 2021 World Series Champions

HOUSTON -- They’ll play it in perpetuity, whenever Atlantans assemble to remember the good times. They’ll play it in the reel with David Justice’s game-winner and Sid Bream’s slide. They’ll play it with the peace of knowing that, unlike so many moments of hope in their city’s tortured sports history, it did not come undone in the aftermath.

What they’ll see is Jorge Soler, dropping his bat, turning to his teammates and smacking his chest as the ball he’d just belted sailed over the railroad tracks that line Minute Maid Park’s outermost edge. They’ll watch that indelible image from World Series Game 6 and know it was the night that the Braves’ 7-0 victory over the Astros completed one of the most spectacular late-season surges in baseball history.

The Braves -- the 88-win team that, via Joc Pederson’s playoff prowess, inspired men, women and children to don pearl necklaces -- will now be fitted with diamond rings. They are World Series champs for the fourth time in franchise history and just the second since moving to Atlanta in 1966.

They are World Series champs not just because Soler literally knocked one out of the ballpark with his mammoth three-run shot off Astros right-hander Luis Garcia in the third inning, but because general manager Alex Anthopoulos knocked it out of the park by acquiring Soler and several other impact players leading up to the July 30 Trade Deadline.

They are World Series champs not just because Max Fried was fantastic in the finale -- going six scoreless innings in which he allowed just four hits with no free passes and six strikeouts -- but because of the patchwork pitching plan manager Brian Snitker and Co. successfully put together after Game 1 starter Charlie Morton fractured his right fibula.

They are World Series champs not just because the “homegrown” Freddie Freeman and the truly homegrown Georgia boy Dansby Swanson added important insurance runs -- Freeman with an RBI double in the fifth and one final home run before free agency in the seventh, Swanson with a seismic two-run shot in the fifth off the facade behind the Crawford Boxes -- but because a complete and resilient roster overcame the injury loss of the Braves’ best player in Ronald Acuña Jr. and the suspension of their biggest offseason signing in Marcell Ozuna.

Their crowning night -- Game 6 -- will be defined by the “Before” and “After” of Soler’s Shot Retweeted ‘Round the World. It was a home run outlandish in both length (the Statcast projection of 446 feet doesn’t do it justice) and significance. It instantly conjured up memories of future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols’ most famous blast in this building during the 2005 NLCS.

Before that blast, the Astros still had the aura of an October-tested giant that had risen from the floor time and again and was still capable of winning its second World Series title in five years. Before that blast, the Braves still carried the historical weight of all those Atlanta teams that had their hearts ripped out, especially after the way Game 5 had gotten away from them.

After that blast, everything felt different. The Astros were still involved and engaged, but Soler, who had delivered after Eddie Rosario’s two-out walk had put two aboard, forced Houston into its bullpen agonizingly early. And unlike in Game 5, the Braves weren’t piecing it together in the ‘pen from the first out, but instead they were riding Fried’s electric stuff and their best, rested relief arms -- Tyler Matzek and Will Smith -- in the late innings only.

This clinching win came remarkably easy for a team for which “easy” rarely applied.

The Braves’ 1995 title team had a haul of Hall of Famers -- manager Bobby Cox, rookie third baseman Chipper Jones and the great rotation of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz -- to guide it to the Promised Land.

This 2021 team had to go about things a bit differently.

Atlanta frantically added underrated outfield options after Acuña Jr. crumpled to the warning track with a torn right ACL, then relied heavily on the bullpen when the World Series rotation was upended by the Morton mishap. And when Game 5 got away from the Braves on what they had hoped would be a party night in the Battery, they didn’t let that setback reshape this Series. They came back to Houston -- in the face of all those waving orange towels and a crowd as loud as Texas is big -- and dominated Game 6.

With this win and this awesome October, an organization -- and a city -- rife with playoff pain, including a record streak of 16 postseason appearances without a championship, got one over on the baseball gods.

Atlanta completed a mathematically improbable journey to Tuesday’s champagne bath. The NL East champs didn’t have a winning record until Aug. 6, and they had the lowest win total (88) of any team to reach MLB’s postseason this year, including the Wild Card clubs. The Braves are just the eighth sub-90-win team to win a World Series in a non-shortened season.