What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams.
After falling criminally short of making the playoffs last season, the Atlanta Braves made up for it in a big way in 2012 by winning the whole damn thing, knocking off the three-time AL champion Texas Rangers in six games in the World Series.
Atlanta's season was mainly stabilized with their starting pitching. After Jair Jurrjens and Tommy Hanson both missed substantial time with injuries last season, both pitchers started 30 games this year and were great, as Jurrjens won 16 games and had a 3.41 ERA, and Hanson was the Cy Young runner-up to repeat winner Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers, winning 19 games with a 2.73 ERA and 250 strikeouts in 230 innings. The most veteran member of the Braves rotation, Tim Hudson, also showed up big-time for Atlanta. Hudson won 14 games an...
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PLAYERS:
Jair Jurrjens,
Tommy Hanson,
Clayton Kershaw,
Tim Hudson,
Brandon Beachy,
Mike Minor,
Craig Kimbrel,
Jonny Venters,
Arodys Vizcaino,
Jason Heyward,
Brian McCann,
Dan Uggla,
Chipper Jones,
Martin Prado,
Michael Bourn,
Tyler Pastornicky,
Ryan Howard,
Chase Utley
TEAMS: Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies
TEAMS: Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies
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