They last made the playoffs in 2013, shit has gone seriously downhill since then.
Which I am a fan of, fuck the Braves.
This snippet from Wikipedia pretty well covers it, at least prior to last season.
The Braves promptly traded Gold Glove Award winner Jason Heyward to the St. Louis Cardinals along with pitcher Jordan Walden for pitchers Shelby Miller and Tyrell Jenkins. Hart would then trade All Star left fielder Justin Upton to the San Diego Padres for Max Fried, Jace Peterson, Dustin Peterson, and Mallex Smith. Catcher Evan Gattis and minor league prospect James Hoyt were traded to the Houston Astros for minor leaguers Mike Foltynewicz, Rio Ruiz, and Andrew Thurman. A day before the season began, the Braves made a final trade involving former All- Star Craig Kimbrel and outfielder Melvin Upton Jr.
The team was barely playoff caliber with a barren farm system, so the organization made a strategic decision, with the Nats ascending into what looked to be a multi-year window of contention, to blow up the team to perform a multi-year rebuild rather than see a slow death as a mediocre team with no chance of winning the division.
We made out like bandits in all of the trades in Krandor's post so I was fine with the decision overall and very happy with each of those trades. The only trade I didn't like was my beloved Andrelton Simmons but I have already shed my tears for him.
tl;dr - blow up the team to hit rock bottom asap and perform a proper rebuild or see the team become mediocre. they chose the former and have done it very well
Schilling got shit canned by ESPN for an anti trans remark on Twitter.
Arrieta no-hitter in progress. Bottom of the 9th. Cubs winning 16-0 lol
http://m.mlb.com/video/v94505183/historic-live-lookin
I'm Canadian without cable TV, let alone ESPN ._.;;
1 out down, 2 to go
Edit: That's 2 down
And there it is!
Got em
Did a fan run into the pile and get ripped out by a cop lol
Gotta be one of the most embarrassing losses I can recall. 16-0, not even a single hit, come on Reds.
Yes he did.
https://streamable.com/wyfc
Arrieta has now thrown 24 straight quality starts in the regular season dating back to last year. Fucking nuts
Colabello suspended 80 games for PEDs.
Didn't really want him on the roster but kind of sad to have him removed like this.