2012 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft
I recently took part in a 2012 fantasy baseball mock draft which probably helps explain the title of this post. Clever, huh? I was on the phone for the better part of the draft. I don’t tell you this to excuse my picks. I think the team is fine. I was going on memory though, so there’s no reason to ask why I took Gallardo with Greinke still on the board even...
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11 hours ago
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Dan Uggla Is Weird, Man
To say that last season was a roller coaster for Dan Uggla would be a compliment to any roller coaster. After a disastrous start that saw him hitting .170 at the beginning of June and under .200 until July 27th, Uggla went on a 33-game hitting streak that saw his average climb to .237. The awful start coined the term #Struggla, and he was a punchline until the hitting streak really...
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25 days ago
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25 days ago
Braves unveil another alternate home uniform
The Atlanta Braves have unveiled a new alternate home uniform that is based on the attire worn when the team moved from Milwaukee in 1966.
The Braves held a ceremony Monday for Chipper Jones, Brian McCann and Dan Uggla to model the new look. Hank Aaron was also on hand.
The cream-colored uniforms feature the customary Braves script across the front, but without the tomahawk that...
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7 days ago
Paying Attention to Prior Drafts: Second Basemen
We continue with our series of looking at how the TRI projections are comparing with actual drafts going on. Of course, you will want to look up the average draft position closer to your draft to see what the current trends are. The average positions came from the first reporting on mlbdepthcharts.com’s fantasy magazine. Often, a periodic look at these will give you an idea...
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8 hours ago
A brief analysis of the Braves new jersey press conference
The Atlanta Braves introduced new alternate jerseys today, which is their third alternate jersey (and fifth overall) that the team wears in game action. That doesn't include their batting practice/spring training jersey. But enough about the inane concept of making another jersey. The press conference that the jerseys were introduced during was laughable in its own right.
First...
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7 days ago
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7 days ago
Dan Uggla Learns Sports Psychologist Was Secretly Treating Him Long After He Was Cured
Dandy Scam. Dan Uggla is still sorting through the details of a very strange season.
ATLANTA (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) Renowned sports psychologist, Carl Pritz was in Dan Uggla’s corner when the all star second baseman was toiling under the Mendoza line for the first half of the season. Uggla had struggled before, but not to the level he suffered shortly before emerging...
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August 31, 2011
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August 31, 2011
Porn Star Bibi Jones Says She Slept With Braves Dan Uggla And Married Athletes
Apparently Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski isn’t the only athlete who are “friends” with porn star Bibi Jones. Bibi appeared on the Toucher and Rich Show yesterday and said she has been with other athletes, some married, and Braves second baseman Dan Uggla.
Deadspin has the details:
The most intriguing of these tales came when the hosts asked her which professional athletes...
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October 25, 2011
Dan Uggla Breaks Career High in Home Runs
It is nice to take a break from the downer posts that I have had to write recently to look at something positive. Of course, the Atlanta Braves exploding last night for 7 runs and a win against the Marlins to lower their Magic Number to 10 games is nice. They had a solid pitching performance by rookie, Mike Minor, and two three-run homeruns from Brian McCann and Dan Uggla to carry...
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September 14, 2011
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September 14, 2011
Dan Uggla Celebrated His Home Run Last Night By Dong-Bumping David Ross (Video)
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September 29, 2011
This Week in Crazy Fans: Slapsgiving Comes Early
Let’s take a short jog down memory lane, shall we?
The month was May, and Dan Uggla couldn’t hit a baseball to save his ugly, stupid, annoying faux hawk’s life. Braves fans everywhere were getting pissy about the fact that @fauxfrankwren signed Sir Biceps of the Smedium Jersey to an extension without ever having seen him play in an Atlanta uniform. I took to calling...
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October 25, 2011
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October 25, 2011
A closer look at Vince Belnome
Justin over at Chicken Friars sort of beat me to the punch on this article, with his recent piece on infielder Vince Belnome. It’s a good read and covers the basics of who Belnome is as a player and potential prospect. I won’t regurgitate too much of his analysis here (hence, the link); however, I will explore some of his performance in a bit more detail and go so far...
Via Friar Forecast
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22 days ago
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22 days ago
NL East: A Fascinating Place: Braves
Yesterday began a new series on the National League East, a division that has dramatically evolved during the off season. The series began, of course, with the Phillies. The Phillies are still the top dog until some team rises and knocks them off their perch. Could that team be the Atlanta Braves? Not if it is last year's Braves who never looked as good as the Phillies. And certainly...
Via The Flagrant Fan
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5 days ago
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5 days ago
Uggla hits 2 HRs, Braves beat D-Backs 8-1
Dan Uggla homered twice and drove in three runs, Brandon Beachy gave up only one run in six innings and the Atlanta Braves continued to feast on the top teams in the NL West by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-1 on Saturday night.
Uggla's two-run homer in the first gave Atlanta the lead. Uggla and Freddie Freeman hit back-to-back homers in the seventh.
After winning three...
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August 20, 2011
Braves stand pat during offseason
If you haven't purged the final game of an epic collapse from your memory, you'll remember the Braves' lineup looked like this on that fateful September day:
Michael Bourn, CF
Martin Prado, LF
Chipper Jones, 3B
Dan Uggla, 2B
Freddie Freeman, 1B
Brian McCann, C
Matt Diaz, RF
Jack Wilson, SS
So now, look ahead to Opening Day 2012. The Braves' lineup will look something...
Via Fox Sports South
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20 days ago
Dan Uggla
Uggla's 33-consecutive-game hit streak was the longest in the majors in five years. Is he any good?
Via The Onion
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August 21, 2011
Braves stand pat during offseason
If you haven't purged the final game of an epic collapse from your memory, you'll remember the Braves' lineup looked like this on that fateful September day:
Michael Bourn, CF
Martin Prado, LF
Chipper Jones, 3B
Dan Uggla, 2B
Freddie Freeman, 1B
Brian McCann, C
Matt Diaz, RF
Jack Wilson, SS
So now, look ahead to Opening Day 2012. The Braves' lineup will look something...
Via Fox Sports South
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20 days ago
Atlanta Braves 2012 Offseason Review
2011 In A Nut-Shell
You have to admit, overall, 2011 wasn’t that bad a year, if you can get past the monumental collapse at the end (“thank you Boston for taking all the heat of us” – Braves fan). But come on! You lost to the eventual World Series Champs. That’s says something right? Anyway, getting into the team…after a disastrous what seemed like forever slump...
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November 28, 2011
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November 28, 2011
The 10 Best Second Basemen Going into the 2012 Season
US PRESSWIRE
The second baseman is evolving around Major League Baseball. So long to the scrawny, banjo-hitting, defensive dependent bums. And say hello to the new breed of power-hitting monsters.
Out with the old like Dan Uggla, Brian Roberts, and Orlando Hudson. And in with the new like Dustin Ackley, Jason Kipnis, and Danny Espinosa.
In the...
Via Rant Sports
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20 days ago
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20 days ago
Ex-Florida Marlins All-Star Dan Uggla named in porn star scandal
Former Marlin Dan Uggla and Terry Bross, his Gaylord Sports agent, are at the center of an alleged porn star scandal.
Bibi Jones, a k a Britney Beth, told Boston radio station 98.5 The Sports Hub on Monday a Phoenix-based agent would “kind of use me to get baseball players to sign him as an agent.” Maury Brown of the Business of Sports Network and Business Insider...
Via Sun Sentinel
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October 27, 2011
Rob Gronkowski’s Porn Star Bibi Jones Had Sex With Dan Uggla?
The big pageview story of the weekend was the revelation that Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski was hanging out with Digital Playground porn star @xxxBiBiJones while on his bye week. Today we find out, via Boston radio, that Rob and six friends of Bibi’s were hanging out the other night watching Bibi do work in some porn.
Yes, we just said that Rob, six dudes and the porn star were watching...
Via Busted Coverage
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October 24, 2011
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October 24, 2011
McCann, Uggla rough up Florida
We all knew the streak that the Marlins have been putting together lately had to come to an end at some point and it did Tuesday night as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Florida Marlins 7-1.
Brian McCann and Dan Uggla combined for six RBI and each blasted a home run to give the Braves the victory.
Florida’s Brad Hand drops to 1-7 on the year and has now lost his fourth straight...
Via Rant Sports
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September 14, 2011
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September 14, 2011
Did Porn Star Bibi Jones & MLB Agent Terry Bross Break MLBPA Regulation?
The story of porn star Bibi Jones & Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski in a pic took another strange twist overnight. It was just 24 hours ago that we traded emails with Business Insider reporter Tony Manfred over what agent was kinda pimping out Bibi Jones to recruit MLB clients. We threw out the name Terry Bross, who just happened to be Dan Uggla’s agent. Jones says she had sex with...
Via Busted Coverage
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October 27, 2011
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October 27, 2011
How Dan Uggla saw Chris Capuano
On Capuano, you seen him that good before?
“Oh, yeah. If you look at my numbers against him, he’s that good all the time. No, but that’s the first time I’ve seen him like that since he’s come back. His fastball was better and he was moving it in and out along with his changeup. He made his pitches, and when a guy like that that’s got a plus pitch – his changeup is a...
Via Mets360.com
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August 27, 2011
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August 27, 2011
Dan Uggla's Historic Season
Has anyone in the history of Major League Baseball ever had a stranger season than Dan Uggla of the Atlanta Braves? First he was hitting historically bad and rivaled Adam Dunn as the most disappointing acquisition of the last decade. Then he rattled off a hitting streak that lasted over thirty games. Despite it all, Uggla has managed to hit the ball over the wall/fence thirty times...
Via The Flagrant Fan
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August 25, 2011
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August 25, 2011
Uggla on doorstep of exclusive club
With two more infield hits, Dan Uggla will become just the 43rd player in Major League history to record 30 homers and 20 infield hits since 1987, when the infield single was recognized as an official stat.
Via mlb.com
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September 05, 2011
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