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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...

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05/29/12 Schwinden recalled as Acosta designated Source: New York City News - New York NY Manny Acosta's rocky tenure with the Mets officially came to an end on Tuesday, when the team designated him for assignment and recalled right-hander Chris Schwinden from Triple-A Buffalo.
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.

Background on manny acosta

Manuel Alcides "Manny" Acosta Molina (born May 1, 1981 in Colón, Panama) is a Panamanian professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.

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