This Day in Brave memory after signing a world class player eager to begin training but unfortunately…
Braves Franchise History
2010 – The Braves reached an agreement with 18-year old Dominican shortstop Edward Salcedo to a reported $1.6 million deal. Salcedo will spend six seasons in the minors and will never reach the major leagues.
2012 – Mike Minor tells the Braves that he wants to be traded if he is not in the team’s starting rotation.
MLB History
1934 – Casey Stengel signs a two-year deal to manage the Dodgers replacing Max Carey.
1960 – Demolition of Ebbets Field begins.
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1974 – The California Angels trade Vada Pinson to the Royals in exchange for minor leagueer Barry Raziano. Pinson retired at the end of the 1975 season.
1976 – Major League Baseball owners announce that Spring Training will not open until a new labor contract is agreed to.
1986 – Wade Boggs loses his arbitration case but is still awarded a $1.35 million contract which is the largest ever through arbitration.
1988 – A committee votes to allow the Cubs to install lights and Wrigley Field and play up to 18 night games a year.
1995 – Former NL MVP Kevin Mitchell signs with the Daiel Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League.
2010 – Major League Baseball announces that it will begin testing minor leaguers for human growth hormone.
2015 – The Red Sox agree to a deal with Cuban defector Yoan Moncada to a contract that includes a $31.5 million signing bonus.
Things in sun splashed North Port, Florida – spring training home for the 2023 National League East Division champion Atlanta Braves – are heating up.
The Braves, arguably the most offensively potent team in all of baseball last season, conducted their first official team workout of 2024 earlier this week, officially beginning their quest for their fifth World Series title in franchise history.
Atlanta, which finished with an MLB-best 104-58 record last season, has spent the entire offseason retooling its roster and reloading its psyche, gearing up for yet another run at baseball’s most coveted prize.
Braves players, fans and members of the local and national media have not been shy about heaping sky-high expectations on the team that’s loaded with long ball hitters, speedy base runners, contact hitters who hit for high average and dominating power pitchers.
In fact, Atlanta’s projected starting lineup is so loaded and athletically accomplished, it reads like a Who’s Who of the best players not only in the National League, but in Major League Baseball.
When the Braves travel to Citizens Bank Park March 28 to face the Phillies on Opening Day in Philadelphia, they will begin the long and arduous journey of trying to reach the postseason, giving themselves yet another chance to earn a different outcome than the nightmarish one they experienced last season when the Phillies took them out in the National League Divisional Playoffs.
“It’s all I’ve thought about,” said Braves power pitcher Spencer Strider, who last season ascended to the top of Atlanta’s sparkling starting pitching rotation. “That’s the conversation we’ve had as a team…whether it’s in groups or one-on-one throughout the offseason, it’s just ‘How do we put ourselves in a position to have a better outcome in the postseason?’
