When your favorite team\u2019s season concludes, there are always mixed feelings. This is especially true if they come up short of expectations, whether it\u2019s from the players themselves or the fan base. To quote Bartlett Giamatti from \u201c The Green Fields Of The Mind\u201d: \u201cIt breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Atlanta Braves have such a passionate fan base. They invest their time, money, and emotions for months at a time in their team, filling the 41,084 seats at Truist Park and enjoying the Battery’s concourse night after night. But when the season ends without the Commissioner’s Trophy, gloom can overshadow positivity. It would be easy to sit here and write another article about what went wrong for the Atlanta Braves in the 2024 season, but what can’t be pushed aside is what can be built on for 2025.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not every offseason that a team can acquire the National League\u2019s Triple Crown winner. For a single prospect, no less. That\u2019s exactly what Alex Anthopoulos pulled off last winter.<\/p>\n
\nYour National League Pitching Triple Crown winner: Chris Sale ? pic.twitter.com\/QHWz7CahpD<\/a><\/p>\n
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