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Today is a great day. I’m listening to “Take It Easy” as I begin this newsletter, temperatures in Brooklyn are in the 50s, and all of us get to look forward to some baseball. This paragraph is the last in which I’ll mention the lockout in this introduction section. You…

As they say in baseball, “That’s baseball.” Baseball is the sport that makes us want to quit it for good, but when, at blessed last, it comes to its senses, we forget everything and say, “Welcome back.”

LOS ANGELES — When we last left the Dodgers, they were injured, exhausted and soundly knocked off their title pedestal by the eventual champion Atlanta Braves.

NORTH PORT, Fla. - On an October morning in 2006, Joe Niekro drove his son, J.J., to St. Stephen Catholic School in Riverview, Florida. To 8-year-old J.J., everything seemed normal.

NORTH PORT, Fla. — On a sunny afternoon near the backfields at CoolToday Park, Ryan Cusick and Jared Shuster stand side by side as they address the media. Reporters usually speak with players one at a time, but this scene feels right because, well, Cusick and Shuster have pretty much…

NORTH PORT, Fla. — Two years ago, when the coronavirus shut down the minor leagues, Braves minor leaguer Braden Shewmake and his peers received even more proof that Michael Harris II could be special when the outfielder took his final round of batting practice at the club’s alternate site on…

The Ramblers (23-7) frustrated the Braves (17-14) into just 31.4 percent shooting, including 20 percent from three-point range. They’ll face Northern Iowa next.

The disclosure last week of the Braves’ record-setting financial results left many fans asking: What does it all mean for the team’s player payroll and for a potential Freddie Freeman contract?

To get mad at baseball is to be Charlie Brown endeavoring to kick a football, still believing Lucy won’t pull the ball away at the last second – even though she has every time before. Baseball is the silliest of sports. Owners and players claim a deep love of the…

ATLANTA — The Braves have worked 37 postseason games over the past four autumns. Mike Soroka, their best pitching prospect of this century, started one. He was masterful in Game 3 of the 2019 NLDS, holding the Cardinals to one run on two hits on a day the venerable Adam…

Ryan Cusick's path to the Braves was once powered by late-night PB&Js and chocolate milk.