It's been a quiet winter for the Braves but a return to good health by a half-dozen stars should provide an enormous boost.

“Kranny (pitching coach Rick Kranitz) comes out, calms things down, and Trompy was staying on point and didn’t flinch. Really got me through that inning with minimal damage. So that was fun to ...

“The very first time he threw that pitch last year was in the big leagues and immediately, it was like, ‘Wow, that is going to be a big pitch for him,’” Braves pitching coach Rick Kranitz ...