Top Five Braves

Top five players in Atlanta Braves history:

 

1. Hank Aaron: HOF, retired all-time leader in HR, RBI, total bases, 3rd in hits.  

 

2. Chipper Jones: HOF, 3rd best switch-hitter

 

3. Greg Maddux: HOF, ranks 7th all-time in career wins, most Gold Gloves

 

4. Phil Niekro: HOF, 300+ wins

 

5. Tom Glavine: HOF, 300+ wins, most sac bunts by a pitcher.

 

6. John Smoltz: HOF, 200+ wins, 150+ saves

 

7. Dale Murphy: two-time NL MVP, 30/30 club member

 

Someone else said Maddux, Smoltz, Chipper, Aaron, and Glavine. Probably a young feller with no grasp of history. Niekro won more games as a Brave than Smoltz, Maddux, and probably Glavine. While playing for losing teams. Not sure why people forget about him - though you'd think the Braves would do a better job honoring him. Sure, a statue and retired number, but only two bobbleheads over ten years apart.

 

Braves franchise top five players:

 

1. Hank Aaron: HOF, member of 30 HR 30 SB club

 

2. Warren Spahn: HOF, ranks 5th all-time in career wins, most by a lefty

 

3. Eddie Mathews: HOF, 500+ HR

 

4. Chipper Jones: HOF, 30/30 club member

 

5. Greg Maddux: HOF, most sac bunts by a right-handed pitcher

 

Dale Murphy held a contest - the winner got to eat lunch at Murphs with him. Would’ve been fun.

 

Enjoying every word of the book “I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back” about the 30 day baseball trip. Extremely well written. Had I taken the trip and written a book, it would include similar experiences, thoughts, and feelings. Glad I’m actually reading this book instead of listening to it, though I am a slow reader.

Julio Teheran is so inconsistent, but the Braves have won 16 games this year that he had started. Almost came back last night. Freddie and Donaldson hit two HR and Acuna and Joyce one each. Great catch by Acuna to rob the home run.

 

The only thing I liked about Bryce Harper’s walk-off grand slam was the way he sprinted around the bases.

JOE MORGAN  [SABR Bio] the former Oakland A, his record for career bases-on-balls by a National Leaguer was broken by Barry Bonds. Morgan retired with 1,865 BB, 1,799 of which were in the NL. Bonds now leads all players with 2,558, all done in the NL. Morgan’s last year as a player, 1984, was spent with Oakland. Once, after joining a new team, he proceeded to lead the league in on-base percentage four out his first five seasons, twice leading the majors. Joined CIN in 1972 and led the NL in OBP in ’72 & ’74, leading the majors in ’75 & ’76. It’s not a stretch to say that he was the best player on the best team in the history of the majors. In 1976, the Cincinnati Reds won their division by 10 G over a very good Dodgers team, then went undefeated in the postseason, never done before or since in the Division era. Morgan led the majors in multiple offensive categories and was a clear choice for MVP. Finishing behind him were 3 teammates out of the next 7 vote-getters. Bill James contends that Morgan is the best second baseman of all time.

 

Separated at birth: Braves outfielder Matt Joyce and the great Ichiro Suzuki.