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ATLANTA — The wait ended Saturday: The Braves received their 2021 World Series rings in a pregame ceremony at Truist Park. The event began 20 minutes before the Braves hosted the Reds in the third contest of a four-game opening weekend series.

The Braves went wild with these World Series rings.

The 2019 World Series win now well in the past, Washington has begun what will inevitably be another rebuilding season.

ATLANTA — Behind Charlie Morton and a potent offense, the Braves won their first game of the season as they defeated the Reds, 7-6, on Friday at Truist Park.

Most head coaches or managers of professional sports teams will say their team is the best or shy away from saying other teams are better than them. One Major League Baseball manager guaranteed his team will win the 2022 World Series.

The economic benefits are a home run that never came, and never should have been expected.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When spring training began last season, the computer models at Baseball Prospectus put Atlanta’s odds of winning the National League East at 20-to-1. Eight months later, the Braves were World Series champions. That’s not a knock on analytics, it’s a nod to unpredictability.

2005 will be an even more distant memory come October.

The Braves enter the slightly delayed 2022 season as reigning World Series champs. Last fall’s triumph bore a bolt-from-the-blue-element – postseason heroics were wrought by many players who weren’t Braves at the All-Star break – but we can’t say we hadn’t seen this team coming. The Braves made the playoffs…