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Fantasy Baseball Preview: The Braves

Fantasy baseball draft season is coming, so you best be prepared by delving through every major player on each team. Fantasy FanHouse is here to help with a quick once-over. Meet the ...Biggest offseason losers. At least that's what pessimists will try and tell you, anyway. The Braves -- and new GM Frank Wren -- seemingly...

Value Machine: Longoria, Lee and BJ

We're two weeks deep in baseball and there's been a lot of shifting in value already. In order to make the proper roster moves and know what to look for when you begin trade negotiations, it helps to understand the perceived value shifts that happen each week. So that's when we bust out the complex algorithms and determine...

Peter Moylan Likely Done for the Year

Amid the good news of an Atlanta 8-0 lead over Florida on SportsSouth, the announcers dropped the unfortunate little bomb that Braves reliever and briefly one time closer Peter Moylan is likely out for the season. They were kind enough, at least for my purposes, to post this quote from Frank Wren:I think, realistically, we...

Bonus Always Be Closing: Party Like It's 1995

Usually we reserve Always Be Closing for Mondays. But, much like 1995, the Braves and Indians are all the rage right now. Only this time, instead of being World Series opponents, they are the focus of closer issues. Both Peter Moylan and Joe Borowski -- the current shutdown guys -- were placed on the 15 day disabled list,...

Braves Closer Soriano Hits Disabled List

The nightmare week for the Atlanta Braves continued today with the news that closer Rafael Soriano would be landing on the disable list with elbow tendinitis, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This news comes on the heels of the completely unrelated but no less depressing revelation that Jordan Schafer was...

MannyAcosta News From the Web

05/29/12 Awful Acosta out as tough Source: New York Post - New York NY The former wears a Phillies uniform and yesterday added a six-RBI game against the Mets to his knockout of Josh Thole earlier this month.
05/03/12 Acosta's struggles continue Source: New York Post - New York NY After three solid weeks to begin the season, reliever Manny Acosta yesterday completed a horrid personal road trip by allowing three earned runs over two innings in the Mets' 8-1 loss to the Astros.
05/02/12 Lucas Duda latest to be hit by flu bug making its way... Source: NJ.com After missing the first two games of this series due to flu-like symptoms, Mets outfielder Lucas Duda was penciled into today's lineup for the series finale with Houston.
05/01/12 Astros beat New York Mets 4-3 Source: New York City News - New York NY Things didn't go as well in the sixth inning.