Seven-time All-Star catcher Brian McCann is planning to retire this offseason, he announced to reporters following the conclusion of today’s NLDS loss to the Cardinals (Twitter link, with video, via FOX Sports Southwest). “It’s time to go,” said McCann when asked about his decision. “Fifteen years of catching — it’s sad, but it’s time. I knew about a month and a half ago.”
After spending three seasons with the Yankees and two with the Astros, the 35-year-old McCann returned to the Braves on a one-year deal this past offseason. It was homecoming in more ways than one, as the Athens, Ga. native and Duluth High School grad was the Braves’ second-round pick back in 2002. The opportunity to return to his hometown and suit up for one more ride with the next generation of Braves stars was a significant factor in his decision to sign with Atlanta in the winter, McCann added.
“That’s a big reason I wanted to come back,” he said. “I wanted to be a part of this again — put this uniform back on, play in front of my family every night. That was a big reason. … Fifteen years is a long time, catching every day. And I got to do it in my hometown.”
Following that 2002 draft, McCann quickly ascended to top prospect status and made his big league debut with the Braves in 2005. He’d ultimately go on to wear a Braves uniform for 10 of his 15 excellent MLB seasons. A six-time Silver Slugger winner, McCann enjoyed 10 seasons in which he tallied 20 or more home runs throughout his big league career. He’ll hang ’em up with a lifetime .262/.337/.452 batting line, 282 home runs, 1018 RBIs, 742 runs scored and 294 doubles.
McCann never won a Gold Glove but was considered a quality defender for much of his career, finishing at 297 of 1194 in throwing out base thieves (25 percent) and with a total of 26 Defensive Runs Saved. He never did much damage during the postseason but did manage a few key home runs, and he of course took home a World Series ring as the primary catcher for the 2017 World Series Champion Astros.
Former teammates have already begun to heap praise onto McCann — perceived by many onlookers as a gruff enforcer but widely beloved by the players with whom he shared a clubhouse. Lance McCullers Jr. (link) and Chipper Jones (link) are among those to offer heartfelt praise for the 15-year veteran’s contributions to their clubs.
McCann earned more than $128MM in salary over the course of his career and will be remembered as one of the finest and most durable catchers of his generation. His 282 career home runs trail only Mike Piazza, Johnny Bench, Carlton Fisk, Yogi Berra, Gary Carter, Lance Parrish and Ivan Rodriguez among catchers — all of whom other than Parrish have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Best wishes to “B-Mac” in his post-playing days.
F in the chat
awww
Always a very good, consistent catcher
Checklist:
McCann gone: Check!
Teheran gone:
DK gone:
Snitker gone:
JD gone:
Jackson gone:
Let’s keep the list going
Yep. Get rid of everyone off your team because you’re emotional and bitter off one series.
I’ve been literally saying this all season. I don’t like any of them. Never have, never will!
They make the playoffs and you don’t like them?
Snitker was literally the NL manager of the year last year give him a break
Yes, because nobody actually counts participation trophies. I don’t count mine. Also, add Freeman to the list. He did nothing to show he has what it takes to make it in the playoffs.
So was joe for the marlins after one year that means shot…
You don’t like John Donaldson? Dude gave us great production and excellent defense this year. Protects Freddie. I say re-sign him tonight. Unless there’s a plan to sign Rendon, which is doubtful.
Risk. Not worth the investment. As you said, unless they go for a clearly better player (Rendon), I’d rather they spend everywhere else. The team is a giant mess and has holes almost everywhere.
Lay off on Freeman, he has done so much over the years for us and all you take from it is a 5 game series?
You said he jas done nothing in the playoffs? A crucial homer in the only playoff win last year?
I actually want him to win a ring one day, but as of now, he is a curse to himself and Atlanta by being on this team any longer. Let him win one with the Astros (previous interest) or Jays.
Like the Falcons, all staff involved with this CHOKE are snake bitten, and there’s nothing I can do for them except let them go.
You might be the biggest idiot I have ever seen comment on a post, and that’s a feat! Freeman is the backbone of this team. Who do you want to lead us? Acuna cannot hit in the 3 or 4 spot, because he chokes. Freeman has had MVP caliber seasons each of the last 5 years, or so.
Please tell the world who you think should be the cornerstone of our team, and makeup our roster and be our Manager.
I say get rid of all the major league talent. None of them will get a ring for Atlanta. They have cursed themselves out of a championship you miserable noshow heifer. Also, Freeman really proved he was a “Leader” by failing to do his job as leader; he failed when it counted and went after teammates publicly. Get his ivory cane out of your mouth. I can barely hear you anyways. I don’t get paid the money to come up with a roster. I just know these chokes aren’t the answer.
Anyways, you probably didn’t really deserve that lashing. I’m just ticked that I wasted a season watching them just for the team to just roll over and die. You’d think they’d fight more, but no, they do not have it. Too lackadaisical. And it all starts with Freeman. It’s time for them to start over. There’s not a soul on their major league roster that is an equivalent to Yadi or Altuve ( a playmaker through and through).
Is that you again Allourgodshaveabandonedus?
I’ve also lost all my respect for Freeman (he was indeed my favorite player ever since his rookie season). I’m still proud of myself for predicting he will be a better player than Heyward. Also glad the Braves traded him. With that being said, this loss was a team effort. Every rational objective critic, writer, fan, non-fan will tell you the Braves are/were the better team. They will all tell you the Cards did not beat the Braves. Instead, the Braves beat themselves.
As ticked off as we are, I think this might just end up being a blessing in disguise for the team. If they moved on, chances of the Braves making a splash in the offseason would be decreased further. This complete disaster just may be enough to create outrage that gravitates not just towards the fans but to management. This is why I said earlier, this upcoming off season is the biggest off season for the team in a long time. If they don’t produce, there is every reason in the world for the fans to stop showing up to games. Unfortunately, the bulk of fans are casuals and will still buy tickets.
Step 1: Sign Bumgarner. Absolutely, the #1 priority for the team.
I’d be more than happy to take Freddie Freeman off your team
Giant mess wins 97 games
He likes to be called Josh
Try every series since 2001
Folty not at the top of this list?
Unfortunately, no because the Braves will not spend or trade this offseason so they are stuck with him until their next rebuild. The team does not care about winning and will never spend.
Next year, the team will finish in 4th place with a rotation of Soroka, Faulty, Fried, Wright, and Anderson/Teheran.
The braves went out and spent on josh Donaldson, they also have an immense amount of young talent. Do you just not appreciate a good team when you see it or are you just stupid?
Should’ve rephrased to “does not care about winning in the postseason*”
They care about winning alright. Winning the division and that’s it.
I love the line “spent on Donaldson (and DK)”
They signed him out of desperation. They realized their top prospect was not ready, so they did what they had to do. Trust me, they did not sign him to win, they signed him to fill a short term hole.
I don’t have to rephrase because winning means to win a WS. Casuals care about division titles. The Braves delusional mindset is they are not ready to spend heading into this season. The results showed the consequences. Why are they sugar coating everything?
Last year, who started game 1? who started game 4?
This year who started game 5?
The common denominator is your answer. When you go into the season calling Faulty your ace, you deserve to lose.
Didn’t they ban your old account? Troll else where gods of heaven or whatever your new account says after they ban you. Change your name to fire snitker the people who use these comment forums know the same troll over and over hence the multiple name changes still no real baseball info from you troll else where
I agree. The frustration is boiling over for me. Something has to change. They can’t keep losing like this forever. Winning 95+ games means nothing if you aren’t ready to win when it matters. If firing Snitker and overhauling the roster is what it will take than I’m all for it. But that’s not going to happen. They love Snitker and emotion always comes first for Atlanta.
Isn’t it ironic the last game of the season against the Mets in which the Braves clearly lost because Snitker completely overmanaged the bullpen, carried over to the playoffs? Snits only good move this postseason was sending Duvall to bat at the right spots.
my money’s on the latter
23 million for one year is hardly a desperate move. He helped get the team to another division title.
The big question for the Braves remains the same, they need some quality arms for the bullpen. Melancon is not a closer anymore. Having a young rotation is fine as long as there is a quality pen.
No, they need to overhaul the rotation as well. Soroka is the only one who is a good pitcher. Fried is a back end rotation arm at best. If the Braves make their first signing a pitcher, the name better be Bumgarner. Of course, Cole is on everyone’s list but the Braves don’t care about bringing the best in.
Its boiling over? Are you on the brink of a meltdown? Perhaps you should seek professional help if baseball affects you so deeply.
Sorry you’re a casual and don’t care if your team wins or loses, but watching winning teams come up short year after year is a little frustrating for a real fan like myself. Don’t worry I don’t take it as a life and death situation, but It would be nice to see a team that can at least progress past one round.
Bad decision to start a pitcher they sent to Triple-A earlier in the season to pitch a win or go home game.
Yea starting him was dumb. It’s almost like the Braves get in their own way when it matters.
This is clearly PseudoStar/AllOurGodsHaveAbandonedUs. He has serious identity problems and changes his name all the time. Am I wrong?
Yep I don’t know why they allow this
You have to confirm and use a different email for a new account. If you take the time out of your day to do that well then you really have nothing better to do.
Actually no you don’t. It is not a new account. I just changed my name using the same email address. Again, why does this matter so much?
why does it bother you so much? I’m not hiding or trying to hide my identity. You take these comment section too seriously if you care about me changing usernames.
Clearly you troll so much regular fans don’t feel it’s worth commenting. Entertainment for you but ruins it for people who care. Cool your a pessimistic Braves fan crawl back under your rock and let the real fans have real baseball discussions.
What is your definition of a real baseball discussion? Granted I understand I’m negative but it is warranted.
Let’s think objectively here. Would you agree that after what happened tonight, the Braves should, no, they need to go out there and spend or trade for pitching? Would you agree there is no excuse to go into 2020 with a rotation of Soroka, Folty, Fried, Wright, and Teheran?
I promise you they will do exactly that. Maybe they will acquire a mid-end rotation guy to replace Wright but that is the best they will do.
Let me put it like this. If this team does not do something for their fans this offseason, then we can confirm they don’t care about winning a WS. Can we agree?
In 2018, the excuse was we are young and not ready.
In 2019, we are experienced but not ready.
In 2020 what will it be? They are definitely ready to win.
Omg… No one cares.
You forgot 200plusk. Lol. Same rhetoric.
RebuildandFireSnitker!,
Have a Snitker. You’re not you when you’re emotional after a loss.
Better?
Can’t believe no one said it
Tomahawks gone: check
I actually saw a few in the crowd. Found it funny! Hopefully, people continue to sneak them in the future. I don’t really care about the chop but I hate SJWs far more, so keep it going.
Mr. Snitker is one of the 3 best managers in MLB.
Not really. The guy the Braves bought to be their number one should not have started Game 4 on 3 days rest in an away ballpark, he should’ve started Game 5 at home. Starting a guy on 3 days rest rarely works and even Verlander didn’t look himself a few days back against the Rays. You can say what you like about Snitker but starting Keuchel on 3 days rest was an error that should not have been made. On 5 days rest Keuchel of course had quite good stats an an era of 3.04, he’d never pitched in Busch Stadium in 2019 and had only pitched there once before and got lit up(1 start ERA 11.25), his ERA in Sun Trust was 2.74 as opposed to Foltynewicz’s 4.58 ERA in Sun Trust, surely they should have looked at this. Game 1 was where the series was lost as sides that win Game 1 in a 5 game series proceed to the next round 73% of the time.
I’ve never been a huge fan of him but the players love him and at least they were winning in the regular season. However, not going to be the guy to get it done in the playoffs. Should have sat Markakis (or Joyce) after game 2, should have sat McCann (and I love BMac) after game 1 and given Cervelli and Flowers each a start, not bunting Acuña over in game 4, and terrible mismanagement of the bullpen through most of the regular season and especially the playoffs. On top of that, on what planet do you not start Soroka twice in this series!? It’s almost like he still thinks it’s July. I think he’s a great human and great guy for the organization but man, he really lost me with his decision making this past week. He’s in over his head when it comes to October and it showed in this series, BAD.
Why dont you like them? What did any of them besides JT and LJ do wrong? And even Julio was quality all year.
Why?
Well, let’s see.
McCann is only here because of nostalgia. His playing career was over a few years ago. He did a good job (i guess) guiding some of the young pitchers, but clearly he is not at the level of Molina who can do both hit and catch.
Donaldson is a risk. I will gladly resign him if they don’t overpay for him. I’d rather the Braves ask the Cubs for Bryant (if available) or of course sign Rendon. Given how unlikely it is, I don’t think JD is worth a huge investment. I don’t think he is an impact bat and this will be surely true as he approaches his mid 30s.
Faulty is not a starter, and definitely not a top 3. He has proven time and time again he is not dependable nor consistent. When he was a rookie, I said he should be the closer of the team. I still believe it can happen.
My distaste for DK mainly stems from his comments the other day where he said he wants to play for the Cardinals. Not the time and place to say stupid stuff like that during the postseason. His performance has been underwhelming, and therefore not worth the investment.
Jackson needs to go. I don’t need to explain my self. I give him respect for holding down the bullpen before the deadline but since he has been terrible.
Julio likewise. Never felt good about him ever since I saw him pitch as a rookie against the Phillies. Take away the Marlins, and his numbers are not impressive. Why do you think even his own team did not trust him in the postseason?
Starting him on 3 days rest was never going to work, is that his fault or Snitker’s fault? Furthermore, Keuchel’s ERA prior to the 3 days rest start in Busch was 11.25 from 1 start, what does that tell you, that he loves pitching there? He should have never started on 3 days rest.
They brought in DK to do exactly that, take the ball when they need him to. It is his job to perform at any point. He did not pitch well in game 1 either so there is no reasonable excuse.
He is a better pitcher in Sun Trust Park-fact. Go ahead and name all the successful outings by pitchers on 3 days rest, their winning percentage, and how deep into the game they lasted.
Are you serious, they brought him in to pitch him on 3 days rest(when they need him to)? Sorry, but you haven’t got a clue. ERA in Busch stadium prior to the start 11.25, ERA in Sun Trust 2.74., that tells me everything I need to know and why he should not have started on 3 days rest.
This post makes me wonder if it’s possible to trade “fans”?
Seriously dude, they had a great year. They were missing a lot of bench depth. The Cardinals pitching is pretty good, and the Birds just got lucky with some hits.
Bench depth? What does the bench depth have to do with them losing? They lost because no one other than Swanson hit. Acuna had his moments, Duvall had his, Albies had his, but the middle of the order was shut down completely. Yes the Cards got very lucky but the Braves did nothing to prevent that.
Always talking about signing rendon and cole will get us a championship. They will each cost over 200 mil and will hinder future transactions. How many rings do those 2 guys have? Bryant is not much of an upgrade over Donaldson.
This lose is on Snit, Freeman, Donaldson, Markakis, and Keuchel. If Snit would have used Fried for 3 innings in game 1, instead of the bad bullpen, it might have only went 3 games. That was the BIG turning point, losing game 1.
Why would you want to rebuild?????? YOU are clueless and evidently not a Braves fan. That is where the Braves got all this good young talent, through a rebuild. Yes, Snit messed-up with a few decisions in this postseason, not enough to fire him. Snit can only play/put a team together with the players the front office gives him. I do hope they don’t bring Keuchel, Teheran or Jackson back. Josh Donaldson I hope is back. The Braves really don’t need another starter, but if they could get a Bumgardner 1-2 years cheap maybe. They will probably bring Julio back though. They need good bullpen help. Maybe some of the young ones can fill that role. We don’t need to go into next year with Mark Melancon as are closer.
AA should trade for Giles. Had he traded Allard to Toronto for Hudson rather than Martin they may have beat St Louis and LA may have defeated Washington. AA got the controllable arm and didn’t get by round 1. Time to put pride aside and deal with his old team.
Josh Donaldson had a 6.1 WAR season and Luke Jackson literally saved the bullpen from complete madness the first two months of the season, but sure, get rid of them.
Don’t let facts get in the way of his vision.
Man, you’re an idiot.
You are an idiot.
Not shocking, but sounds like an emotional decision vs him truly wanting to leave. Should have waited a few days, then announce it. Just looks a little better.
Great Brave! One of the greatest of all time. Definitely best catcher in Braves history, yes?
Javy Lopez?
Javy Lopez was pretty good
Javy was at least juiced up for part of that time though. I’d say McCann was the better of the two.
McCann was a far better defensive catcher and Javy had some terrible offensive years before his record breaking season that happened to occur on a contract year when they hadn’t started testing for steroids yet. Javy never even came close to reproducing that seasons numbers again. Even the league didn’t buy into it. Can you imagine what a catcher coming off a 42 homer season would make on the free agent market now? I think Javy got a 3 year $21 mill deal and barely finished it out.
I think he is the type that didn’t want a “retirement tour” type deal, didn’t want a fuss being made over him. From what I’ve read in other places, he has known this is it for him. It’s a young man’s game now and he had a great career. I still love it when he blocked home plate when that Brewer was pimping a home run. That was classic Brian McCann.
I think McCann changes his mind. The front office try’s to get him to come back. Really no other catchers out there. Cerveli. could come back
McCann said he privately informed Snitker and the front office back at the end of August that he was retiring after the season, so this wasn’t just something he decided after the game.
McCann was a good one! Played the game the right way. Good luck to Atlanta next year, they were a tough opponent and a very talent team! Praise to the Cardonals!they fought hard and never gave up it was a great series!
+1.
It was great for the Cards until y’all murdered us on the field and played 9 innings against a bloated corpse.
Ah man… wish they wouldn’t have pinch hit for him
After that play yeah
Good
On a side note, thank you to the Braves upper management for recognizing someone had an issue with the tomahawk chop and doing something about it. Whether you agree or not, they realized it made someone uncomfortable and they listened to his words and took action.. Class act Atlanta IMO good job!
Oh yes it upsets 1 person, so let’s punish our entire fan base because it makes an opposing player uncomfortable awesome…… 2019 logic in a nutshell
You mean cancel culture logic. SJWs in the nutshell.
Awww, an entire fan base doesn’t get to their little clever chop chop thing. Says something about said fan base if they’re so easily butt hurt
I for one have a pet cardinal and do not appreciate your team touting him around as some mascot. It’s offensive. Please change it asap
He didn’t feel uncomfortable he was just puttin the spotlight on his nationality
Redskins yes is offensive. Indians yes offensive. Native Americans are not from India
But please the name is the Braves. It’s documented in history that Native Americans had a warrior nation and that’s what the the Braves represented. Warriors on the ballfield.
That dude is a clown. Making something out of nothing. Braves got the chop from Florida State Seminoles and the sSeminole tribe have no problem with the team name or the chop so this clown needs to stop whining.
Indians are “offensive”?
How about the Irish of Notre Dame? Cowboys of Dallas doesn’t upset anyone.
Don’t know why it took so long to figure out that what the Atlanta fans do is far more racist then anything Cleveland Indian fans do, but it’s Cleveland that gets dumped on.
Native Americans are not Indians
Indians come from India !!!!!
Ckeveland gets dumped on cuz ….it’s one big dump. Amirite?
Wahhh, this “one” person whining and crying wolf while getting their way to appease to the masses has to stop, it’s totally ruining this country fast! Twitter is PURE cancer.
Even when he was on the Yankees, it always felt like he’d belonged back in Atlanta.
sucks it ended in this note.
This Yankee fan salutes McCann, great career
This Mets fan salutes McCann’s career. Always a tough out. Always ready to battle. A formidable opponent, maybe not so much at the end but loyal to his teammates. R-E-S-P-E-C-T! He earned it.
Guy was a class act for a lot of years, a rarity in today’s game. He deserves some kuddoos…..
Congratulations! Good catcher! Good luck in your future!✅
Good riddance…..now if Snitker will do the same and we trade Freeman, we might win a postseason series.
When ur legs are done, theyre done.. Thanks for everything you’ve done for this organization Bigmac. It was fun to watch you since the baby Braves days and Good luck in retirement.. Just go enjoy being a dad for awhile and being away from the grind. Hope to see you back in the dugout in a mentor role down the road. Sucks it had to end this way after so much promise, but there’s obviously still plenty of flaws yet to fix on this team to get them past a first round. (Love ya snit, but you still have a lot of work to do if you ever want to be a postseason winner.)
That was rather abrupt, but I feel like this was always the plan when he went back to Atlanta. There was almost no chance of the Braves bringing him back next year and even when he was on the Yankees, and when Houston won it all, it seemed like he wanted to be back home.
Crappy way to go out but at least he got his ring
Snit should have let him hit in the 9th and get an ovation.
It doesn’t seem like this was something anyone knew about, but I wasn’t in the clubhouse so what do I know?
Post game interview Mac said everyone knew a month and a half ago.
The commentators were talking about it during the television broadcast so they apparently knew about it. Don’t know how they found out though.
Press conference Snitker seemed to indicate he asked him and it was Mac’s decision
***to not bat**
Yeah, probably didn’t want the extra attention in that moment. Down 13-1 in a horrendous game. Chipper went out on that infamous wild card game in 2012 and Mac this one. I never want to see the Cardinals in the postseason again.
coming from a Yankees fan: congratulations on a very nice career Brian, enjoy retirement
Thank you for being a professional, Brian. Enjoy retirement
This retirement makes the Tyler flowers option much more appealing
Unfortunately you’re right. I think catching in general is just gonna have to be home grown. Think the market is too thin… look for Jackson to come up and fill the back up role, later WC or Shea should come up and fill both starter and backup roles if Jackson can figure it out. Idk.
I wouldn’t mind if they took a crack at Austin Romine, if he gets to the market. There just ain’t a lot at that position that stands out this offseason.
Flowers can’t hit…..They should have kept Suzuki…not Flowers. Look at Suzuki’s year for Washington and who did the bulk of the catching there.
Wonder if he lost a little weight…. feel like even if he didn’t he has a couple more years of semi decent production in him. Hate to seem his last game be such a terrible one. Would have at least liked it to be a classic like the rest of this playoff series
I’m kind of over the Tyler flowers experiment to be honest, can’t imagine what would have been with a realmuto acquisition and greinke at the deadline.. Sure the farm woulda went from a #2 to the bottom in terms of prospects, but I’m awful tired of division championships and first round exits..
Cant stomach to hear freeman’s and snitker’s post series interviews yet, but the guys that were supposed to carry this team layed a coup full of eggs when it counted. You’re not supposed to have to rely on the 21 year olds to pick up the slack in the postseason.
Really could care less if I ever see faulty in a Braves uni ever again, talk about the epitome of frustration..
It’s a shame they pinch hit for him
This rest of the year will feel better if the Braves sign Bumgarner. The Braves need a “You are not going to beat me” type of pitcher leading the way for the rotation. This is my absolute 1000% most important move the Braves should make this offseason. I’m jumping all over his bandwagon all offseason until the Braves yet again fail to do so.
I’ll put that above firing Snitker! In fact, I’m being a hypocrite anyway since I believe being a manager in the MLB is one of the most overrated jobs in sports. Whether it is Snitker, or somebody else, it is the team’s fault usually.
Oy Dan Marino had a worse team effort in their final game.
They should make him managrt and move on from Snit.
With Keuchel,
Brian McCann HOFer?
Theres an argument
No he’s not. Not enough of a game changer unfortunately.
I could see him being one of those guys that hangs around at the bottom of the results for several years. Probably never getting more than 20%, but staying above 5% for a while.
As a Yankee fan, I always wanted McCann after Posada retired. He just came when he was a little past his prime. I still hold him in high regards because he played the game the way it should be played. No flash, no sparklers, just solid consistent performance all the time! He would have my vote for HOF honors as well. Thanks for all you’ve done through the years! Now come back and manage the Braves!
Sad to see him go. This is another one of those retirements that makes me feel old lol. I remember watching him a lot when he first came up and he became one of my favourite Braves. Best of luck to him, he had a great career. Such a shame that it ended the way that it did today. I was hoping they’d let him hit in the 9th there for one last big ovation.
Wow and this is why it’s best to be humble wow 13-1 embarrassing. However braves nation great foundation to build upon bright future y’all gotta get at least 1 championship out of this core.
Let me start by saying I’m a braves fan, now and forever, but Freddie was hurt this entire seres. In this instance I think he should have let someone else have his spot.I respect what he tried to do, however in this case it was the wrong decision. Would him sitting out have made us better, I can only say Freddie was not Freddie.
I’ve been fans of braves since 1989, I’ve never seen a team as mediocre as this one in the postseason Past players put 100%, gave their lives to get even further. What happened to us today is a clear example of the inconsistency of a management that limited itself to spending and getting the best ,with prospects do not reach anything, we are not the Marlins, let’s leave this silly theory. Now to tell Markakis, mc cann, teheran, flowers, and some other: Bye Bye Find the best in the market, stop crapmanagement and spend to win. On the contrary ? We will be in them. If Sniker leaves, I would love to have Maddon as Mgr. This year has been a failure, we died again on the first attempt.
The Braves have zero excuses to not do something big this offseason. They have money to spend, prospects to trade, and a team core to win. If they don’t then yes we have a bonafide failure of an organization.
I agree but there shoulda been at least 5-8 championships since 95 by now and thats no joke in the least. It’s truly unbelievable and sad to have 1 WS championship to have gone through this much talent and domination of the last 25+ years..
4 HOF players, 2 on the cusp, and a HOF manager and ONE WS championship..that’s insane in anybodys book and the disappointment is there year after year after year.
That is baseball, which makes it so great. Just look at what happened. Braves fans celebrated a division title, only to get eliminated in the first round again. The Nats won the wild card, and just beat the Dodgers to advance. This is exactly why I say winning division titles are pointless and why I don’t celebrate them anymore. Go Nats. I’ll be rooting for them the rest of the way!
Division titles are not pointless at all and your argument that the Braves loss proves it lacks credibility.
Fact: Cardinals beat the Braves and the Cardinals won their division! Hhhmmm
If Cardinals had not won the division they may have been eliminated by the Nats in the wild card.
Division title eliminates and entire round. It is very important
McCann’s always been a class act, and has been one of the truly great players in Braves history that I’ve seen play. I appreciate everything he’s done on the field, and all of the exciting moments over the years. Wish he could’ve gone out on a better note, but hope he enjoys his retirement.
“It’s time to go,” said McCann when asked about his decision. “Fifteen years of catching — it’s sad, but it’s time. I knew right after today’s first-inning massacre that I never wanted to play another game ever again.”
I think that moment came when he slipped.
Tough way for a real pro like McCann to end his career. That first inning got out of hand in a hurry. True, some balls were hit hard, but even the ones that were not seemed to find a hole. All teams find themselves in a game or two like this each year when the game is over before it barely started. Too bad it had to happen to the Braves in a win-or-go-home Game 5.
It’s interesting the two NL teams who signed players at positions with little to no concern were eliminated yesterday. Donaldson for Atlanta, Pollock for LA. The areas of concern weren’t properly addressed, they were exposed, they were sent home earlier than expected.
However, Atlanta should QO Donaldson. Riley is your LF. Buyout Flowers and go after a Catcher (Grandal). Pickup Teheran’s option and shop him. You will get nothing for Teheran straight up, you will get something if you attach a prospect or two. Hire a manager. If you pickup Markakis’ option, shop Inciarte. Same rules for Teheran applies to Inciarte.
Donaldson can’t get a QO. He has already been tagged once in his career. So the Braves either re-sign him or lose him for nothing.
tell me who QO’d Donaldson? It sure wasn’t the Indians who received him in his contract year…..The only contract year he’s ever had.
HiFlew – as a Blue Jays fan I know Donaldson has not been QO. Why? Because the Blue Jays decided to sell low last season, thus taking the QO off the table due to being traded during the final year of his contract at the second deadline.
Atlanta can hand him a QO. He’s never been tagged. This decision is a no-brainer for Anthopoulos.
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Wow! Braves won two NL East titles in a row, lost a goofy game yesterday and you Brave fans want to dump the manager and half the team! Must be something in the water in Hot-Lanta because when fans starts dissing on Freddie Freeman, well, you know something ain’t right.
Tired of Freddie, are you? I’m a Phillies fan. Send him up north to us. Philly fans will fall in love with him.
What do you think of my friend, that the braves will win the division of your Phillies and harper that must hurt freeman is not going anywhere
I’ll never forget his huge 3-run homer off Roger Clemens in the playoffs in his rookie season of 2005. Nor will I forget Thom Brennaman’s call.
“We said he was money. He’s money tonight.”