Cox 10 wins away from 2,500
by jayjaxon on Sep 1, 2010 2:11 PM EDT
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PrintBobby Cox has a lot to look forward to as he enters the final month of the 2010 regular season. A hot pennant race will culminate with a three-game series in Atlanta against the Phillies. There is the potential to meet those same Phillies in the National League Championship Series. The Braves have a great chance to reach the World Series and win one for the first time since 1995. But with a record of 2,490-1,985, Cox has two potential milestones to look forward to as well.
Cox needs 10 wins to become only the 4th manager to reach 2,500. Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Tony LaRussa are the only managers to do it. On the other side of that, he needs 15 losses to get 2,000. Only 4 managers have done that too. LaRussa has 2,278 losses. Atlanta has 30 games left. The Braves would have to play .500 ball the rest of the way for him to get 2,000 losses, so don't count on that happening. But 10 more wins is all but a certainty. When he reaches this milestone, he will be only the second manager in baseball history to have 2,500 wins with less than 2,000 losses.
So Braves fans, keep an eye out for that 2,500th win! Go Braves!
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I did not know that.
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw
on a related note
Braves franchise is 7 games under .500 since 1876. A hot September could get us there.
"Having over half of your lineup batting .250 or less with no poers hitters is a certain death."
-Simon Damrow
not like we’ve got a slate full of juggernauts
"Having over half of your lineup batting .250 or less with no poers hitters is a certain death."
-Simon Damrow
by VivaLosBravos on Sep 1, 2010 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
If only Heyward
could’ve debuted in 1876, imagine how many more wins we’d have!
"Jason Heyward was a Greek philosopher reincarnated as a baseball player." - Don Sutton
he currently has 157
"Tony Gwynn made sacrifices. Cal Ripken made sacrifices. I'm not sure Derek Jeter made sacrifices given the ungodly deep pockets the Yankees have." - Chipper Jones
by MBL1 on Sep 1, 2010 5:09 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
well
when he was a player a baseball season was 154 games. I say he already has it.
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by VivaLosBravos on Sep 1, 2010 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
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