Former Atlanta Braves in the 2008 Post Season

Good picture gallery of ex-Braves playing in the post season this year by the AJC today.

The list includes eleven (11) players...

• Greg Maddux
• Jason Marquis
• Paul Byrd
• Rafael Furcal
• Mark DeRosa
• J.D. Drew
• Mark Kotsay
• Jermaine Dye
• Dewayne Wise
• Willy Aybar
• Mark Teixeira

Who would I want back? Teixeira. But it would have taken a lot more than Tex to get the Bravos in the post season this year.

Adios Spiezio

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Atlanta Braves have released Scott Spiezio. Spiezio was playing for the Richmond Braves after having been signed to a minor league deal about two weeks ago.

Full article on ajc.com.

Jason Stark of ESPN.com Picks the Bravos in '08

We take you back in time to the first week of March. The 2008 Grapefruit League was only a few days old. But a National League scout already had caught on to something that hadn't yet dawned on the rest of the hemisphere.

He'd just returned from watching the new, improved Atlanta Braves. It didn't take him long to make this important announcement:

"They're back."

And they are. Consider this a warning -- to you and the rest of the National League East. They're back.

It's been 2½ years since the Braves last played a postseason game. It's been 13 years since they won the only World Series of their 14-year rampage as division champions. It's been 17 years since the Braves of John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, Steve Avery and Charlie Leibrandt made their first foray into October in the Bobby Cox-John Schuerholz era.

Read the rest at:
sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview08/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3320120