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Dear Chipper, Stop hurting yourself. It's freaking me
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Atlanta slugger Chipper Jones and ace Tim Hudson
left Wednesday night's game against Florida with injuries, a
pair of blows to ...
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Chipper Jones Latest Blog Posts [more]
Chipper Jones Accurately Tells the Fans to Lay Off Blaming Bobby Cox for the Braves Losing
Posted 9 hours ago at FanHouse
Braves Injury Updates
Posted 13 hours ago at Chop-n-Change
Evening Roundup for 7/25 (Pierre, C. Jones, Cueto and more)
Posted 18 hours ago at Roto Professor
Chipper Out for Tonight (At Least)
Posted 19 hours ago at The NL East Blog
The Defining Series
Posted 19 hours ago at Braves Blast :: Atlanta Braves Blog
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The Braves managed a pyrrhic victory on Wednesday
night when Chipper Jones went down with a hamstring
injury. Jones has struggled this month with a .270 average, which has dragged his average down from the .400 plateau. While Jones has suffered many ...
Braves slugger Chipper Jones hurt his left thigh
running out a ground ball in the fourth inning
against Florida and left the game Wednesday night.
BATTING 2B: Y Escobar 2 (14, R Nolasco
2); J Francoeur (21, R Nolasco); K Johnson (23,
R Nolasco) 3B: G Blanco (4, R Tucker) RBI: Y Escobar 3 (38), C Jones (55), K Johnson (40), G Blanco 3 (22), B McCann (57) 2-out RBI: G Blanco, Y Escobar, B McCann ...
MIAMI -- If the Braves are going to
make a run and put themselves back in legitimate
playoff contention, they are going to need Chipper Jones. But when they go to Philadelphia for an important three-game series against the Phillies this weekend, they ...
If he were traded tomorrow, my memories of
the Adam LaRoche Era in Pittsburgh would include perennial
half-seasons of teetering on the Mendoza Line, at least 100 Hans Klopek references too many on my part, and LaRoche's obsession with hunting. A ...
On the day the Bush administration announced its
opposition to tobacco regulation, we honor MLB's big dippers.
In collaboration with a fantastic new dip enthusiast site, RipDips.com, we present our favorite players at each position who are unashamed to pack a fatty on national television.
The Big Board is a moderately helpful tool
that can be used as a draft kit or
to help determine the validity of a trade proposal. I've used it before, but theres always a few rankings that must be there as a result of drug use...
Foxsports.com fantasy writer Gerrit Ritt's list of the
Top 50 fantasy players in MLB. Josh Hamilton leads
in RBI and is hitting more than .300 makes him the first half's top fantasy player. These rankings are updated weekly during the MLB season.
And we return to our overview of statistical
topics in sabermetrics . Two weeks with out a
post feels like a long time in the rapidly moving blogosphere, but I’m back from my little vacation. As good as it was (including my own bachelor party at Comiskey Park complete with a White Sox triumph ), it’s time to get back to where we left off. This week we start our exploration of ...
Because we enjoy being in the business of
horribly wild prognostications! * Chipper Jones ends up at
.353. * The NL Wild Card race has six teams in the mix during the final week of the season, all separated by two games: Mets, Phillies, Dodgers, ...
Major League Baseball All-Star Game Chipper's one hit
only half the story Braves stars make most of
experience at Yankee Stadium By DAVID O'BRIEN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 07/15/08 New York Chipper Jones came to bat in the second ...
Chipper Jones learned to switch-hit as a kid
because his father revered Mickey Mantle, so he appreciates
the opportunity to play at Yankee Stadium a final time. Jones' favorite New York stadium, however, is Shea.
*Hint* Josh Hamilton isn't just a Home Run
Derby Wonder!
Peavy continued to dominate as the Braves were
kept off balance by his continual changing of speeds.
His variation of speeds is what Black viewed as one of the strengths of Peavy's performance. "He threw some slow curveballs, a couple to Chipper Jones, and that kind of planted the seed for the rest of the guys in the lineup," Black said.
On Monday night, first year Dodger pitcher Hiroki
Kuroda needed only 91 pitches to complete a shutout
of Chipper Jones, Mark Teixeira, Brian McCann and the Atlanta Braves. In fact, he came 6 outs away from a perfect game until Mark Teixeira doubled to lead off the 8th inning ( a solid hit by the way).
Chipper Jones selection to the National League All
Star team was the 6th of his career but
the first since 2001. Sometimes players are selected to All Star teams based on previous years performance but Jones has earned this selection. In recent years Jones had seemed to be a reoccurring trip to the DL with a pesky hamstring. Things are a little different this year as Jones who is hitting a ...
Rockies +124 (1) The Screwers acquired C.C. Sabathia
today. He will only be pitching once every five
days, but Milwaukee will be drawing extra action every day regardless of who is starting. They are now “legitimate World Series ...
When I read this story, I was literally
laughing out loud. Here’s Chipper Jones, high royalty in
the baseball universe, and he’s telling a tale of being snubbed by a singer who made a name for herself on a TV reality show. As he told ...
In the fifth installment of a series investigating
statistical trends over the past 3 decades, the Fantasy
Baseball Hall of Fame reviews stolen bases.
To avoid redundency, the blogger's awards occur for
each week on an every other rotating week basis.
This week's edition checks in with the National League up to June 22nd. To check out the results, head over to RotoJunkie to view the results of all who voted. It is also interesting to reflect upon a previous weeks voting. Here is my last posting which was for week 6. The following will be how ...
Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.
Batting Average has come a long way in
30 years. In the early 80's it was an
aberration for catchers or second basemen to hit .300. Lately, it's an aberration for them not too. FBHOF has the story of batting averages of the Fantasy era and would you be surprised to learn that middle infielders hold the all time record for highest combined batting average? Probably not.
Written by Consigliere Chipper Jones Jones is still
having an issue with his quad that has kept
him out a handful of games this year. It’s possible that he’ll wind up on the disabled list. Dan Uggla Baseball’s homerun leader is suffering from a sprained ankle and could miss the next week, but it doesn’t appear that he’s be put on the DL. Click on the link above for the rest...
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Atlanta Chipper Jones - Strained right quadriceps, day-to-day.
Omar Infante - Strained right hamstring, day-to-day. Cincinnati Edwin
Encarnacion - Missed 3 games (back spasms). Detroit Matt Joyce - Recalled from Toledo (AAA). Magglio Ordonez - Pulled oblique muscle, 15-day DL. ...
Standings have been updated … Even with two
weeks to go in the first half of the
Derby and only a six-Homer lead … I’m going to officially call the 2008 Home Run Derby 1st Half Championship for Belichoke (248 HR). Why? Because The Joba Rules (242 HR) just lost Magglio Ordonez and Chipper Jones (not official yet) to the DL. In fact, I’d say that Joba ’s in ...
Chipper Jones was batting .400 or better for
more than two months this season before going 0-for-4
on June 19.
DAVID O'BRIEN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 06/29/08
Toronto A tough weekend for the Braves got tougher
Sunday when Chipper Jones said there was a "distinct" chance he would go on the 15-day disabled list for a lingering quadriceps ...
Well, the Jays made that one unnecessarily tense.
A five run lead in the eighth became a
one run lead.
Let’s send Chipper and McCann to Yankee Stadium
in July to represent our Braves! As of the
results released on Tuesday, Chipper is currently leading Cubs’ third baseman, Aramis Ramirez, by about 800,000 votes, and McCann is only trailing ...



























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