David O'Brien
Sports Reporter at The Athletic
Ink-stained wretch and music snob. Chronicling major league baseball for 31 years. #Braves beat writer for @TheAthletic.
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
ATLANTA - The first casualty of the Atlanta Braves' disappointing performance this season is third-base coach Matt Tuiasosopo, who was reassigned Monday to a minor league position and replaced by Fredi González, the former Braves manager and third-base coach. González, 61, most recently spent five years on the Baltimore Orioles staff including three seasons as bench coach before being let go along with two other coaches after the 2024 season.
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
ATLANTA - When Chris Sale was 25, as his Braves teammate Spencer Schwellenbach is now, he finished third in the 2014 American League Cy Young race after going 12-4 with a 2.17 ERA in 26 starts for the Chicago White Sox and leading the American League with nearly 11 strikeouts per nine innings. But their paths were distinctly different, part of why Sale is so impressed by what Schwellenbach, a former college shortstop, has done in his first calendar year in the majors.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
ATLANTA - Braves center fielder Michael Harris II expresses himself with an array of distinctive headbands, color-coordinated neon-bright cleats, batting gloves and arm sleeves, and some of the most spectacular catches we've seen since 10-time Gold Glove winner Andruw Jones manned that same center-field position in Atlanta. But what "Money Mike" would like to add to his featured mix is more hits.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
ATLANTA - Hard-throwing Atlanta Braves rookie AJ Smith-Shawver has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, as the team feared when he left Thursday's game at Philadelphia after feeling what he said was a pop in the elbow. An MRI revealed the torn UCL and Smith-Shawver will consult with a specialist before he's expected to have season-ending surgery.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
PHILADELPHIA - On a long and painful day that journeyed into night, the Atlanta Braves desperately needed something good to happen in the second game of their doubleheader Thursday against the rival Philadelphia Phillies. They got it.
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Good stuff from @SamBlum3 —Ron Washington ran me through his famous infield drills. It was … incredibly hard https://t.co/Nc0pCmttYN
#Braves takeaways: Spencer Strider’s pending return, continuing anemic offense (until late innings), and more from a series loss to reeling Pirates https://t.co/YRnCBJuEZd
RT @DOBrienATL: #Braves takeaways: Spencer Strider’s return, an anemic offense and more from an uninspiring series loss at Pittsburgh http…
