ATLANTA — There have been some major developments in baseball’s ongoing labor pains that have potentially dire implications for the world champion Braves.
For one, it appears that as well as suffering a season-ending knee injury in July, the Braves’ young star outfielder Ronald Acuna has been replaced by a gray, formless silhouette.
Google Braves/roster/mlb.com. Gone from the official website is the usual photo headshot included for each member of the 40-man roster, replaced by an indistinct, colorless outline of a head. The entire Braves roster now looks as alike as the freshman class in a prep-school yearboo
Acuna, the future face of the franchise, no longer has a face.