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It hasn't occurred very often that three pitchers rise to the challenge and cause a team to ascend to great heights because of their efforts.

The old-guy market may not be so hot this offseason, so Gary Sheffield is making sure he's not one of the old guys shut out of the 2010 season.

For so many years, the formula for winning a Cy Young Award was pretty simple: Win a lot of games.

Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second consecutive season to become the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honour.

During the 1990s, it became easy to predict that a Braves pitcher would capture the National League's Cy Young Award.

You trade a young pitcher and your looking to fail in the future. Jurrgerns and Hanson are the future for this team Why not get the best bat available regardless of position move Chipper to first if needed that might keep him in the line up more and out of the trainging room.

This makes as much sense as the Greek Evzones Marching at Slope puzzle that doesn't exist.

And as the ball quickly left the yard and Utley quickly rounded the bases , most of the 46,000 fans, holding on desperately to hope, poured their love from every direction.

Andy Pettitte throwing on three days' rest? Even with his postseason record, it seemed like a dicey proposition, especially after A.J. Burnett blew up in Game 5 of the World Series.

THE MOOD outside Citizens Bank Park yesterday afternoon reflected the gray skies.

Andy Pettitte, who earned the win in Game 3, is expected to be the starter in Game 6 - but Joe Girardi would not say for sure.

He's a lefty, a finesse guy whose the right age to have watched the Braves and Yankees battle for Team of the Decade honors in the 90s.

What does it take for net work baseball experts -- experienced experts, no less -- to sensibly speak baseball? In the bottom of the first of last night's Game 2 Fox telecast, "The Home Depot Tools To Victory" graphic appeared.

Mike Flanagan and Steve Carlton did it first in 1983, representing the Orioles and Phillies, respectively.

Tony DeMacio's storied career as a scout reached its first milestone during the summer of 1984, when with his first signing he provided the Braves a young left-hander from Billerica, Mass., named Tom Glavine.

Given the centrality of health-care in the current political debates and the key role injuries played in the New York Mets logging yet another disappointing year into the history books, assessing the condition of the Mets heading into 2010 in terms of diagnosis is only appropriate.A A Similar to the 2003 Mets, who came into the season with a core ...

Thursday 15 Oct 2009 Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 07:20AM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com -ATLANTA Atlanta Braves Executive Vice President and General Manager Frank Wren today announced the appointment of Tony DeMacio as the Club's new Director of Scouting.

Welcome to the best time of the baseball year. There's nothing better than the league championship series.

Second in an occasional series of analyses of the Braves' 2009 campaign, with an eye toward 2010.

The celebration began somewhere beyond amazing, somewhere on the far side of impossible.