They have a shiny new ball park built to infuse revenue into a franchise that was falling further and further behind the competition and the highest rated farm system in baseball. And that dreadful TV contract that was by far the worst deal in franchise history – the Upton brothers and Dan Uggla put together don’t even come close – will expire in 10 years.
So, yeah, the Atlanta Braves’ future looks promising.
But what about 2017? For all of the optimistic talk about the future, what will it be like this summer as fans sit for hours in traffic to go watch a team whose best-scenario seems is scraping together a record that’s just north of .