Jennifer Ellis

Wife, mom, domestic engineer. I love Tennessee athletics, Duke basketball, the Atlanta Braves and my Dallas Cowboys. I love God more!

[Jennifer Ellis @dajellis17]

@FreddyLA7 So sorry. Heartbreaking for sure. Thank you for sharing your journey with all of us.

[Jennifer Ellis @dajellis17]

When your Boomer parents discover Messi and send this text: Did you watch Argentina play last night? I am now a fan of Lionel Messi.🤣

[. @BravesAmerica]

In honor of the most sensational
Inspirational, & celebrational regular season...

THE 2023 BRAVES AS MEMBERS OF THE MUPPETS

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[Jennifer Ellis @dajellis17]

@bravesorganist the walk up song for Crow-Armstrong last night was awesome! 😂😂

[Jennifer Ellis @dajellis17]

@RyanColemanCEO @dajellis2001 GBO!

[Ryan Coleman @RyanColemanCEO]

🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME!! 🎉

SOUTH CAROLINA vs TENNESSEE

2Winners:
W1: 2Tix and Parking pass
W2: 2Tix and No Parking pass
Both Ws : Autographed Football signed by QB1 Joe Milton III

JUST:
👉 Follow US
👍 Like&RT
🏷️Tag a friend

#GBO #TennesseeFootball #KnoxvilleRealEstate

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RT if your team currently holds a playoff spot as we enter the final two weeks of the regular season!

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RT if your team has clinched a playoff spot so far 🙌

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RT if your team is ready for October baseball 👀

[MLB @MLB]

.@Braves slugger @MattOlson21 and his longtime friend, Reece Blankenship, are making a big impact as advocates for those in the autism community.

[On3 @On3]

REPOST if your team is undefeated after Week 2🔥

[Punchy @BigOrangePunch]

Retweet if your team is still undefeated after Week 2

[CFB Home @CFBHome]

RT if your team is still undefeated

[Bleacher Nation @BleacherNation]

Me in March: "I just want the Cubs to be playing meaningful games in August and September. The playoffs would just be gravy."

Me in August: "If the Cubs do not win tonight's meaningful game, I am setting my TV on fire and throwing it through the window."

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RT if your team got the series W this weekend!

[KC Covington @Fried_Baseball]

How the Braves Win with Moneyball

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When you hear the term “Moneyball,” you may reflexively imagine Jonah Hill repeating the words, “because he gets on base” on cue like a life sized Tickle-Me-Elmo every time Brad Pitt points to him.

But as I recently heard an MLB analyst point out, Moneyball, at its essence, is about finding and maximizing value.

And by that definition, the Atlanta Braves under Alex Anthopoulos are as Moneyball as it gets.

As of Monday, the Braves were top-15 in WAR in the NL at FIVE positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, RF.

The Braves are paying the players who man those positions a total of $72 million this year.

The Mets, by contrast, were set to pay $72 million to just two players, Francisco Lindor and Max Scherzer — with the latter no longer wearing a Mets uniform.

Like every other team in baseball, circumstances will force the Braves to change their plans from time to time, but they never stray from their methodology. VALUE is paramount.

Some fans mistake the Braves reluctance to join bidding wars for top shelf free agents for being “cheap.”

Not so. The Braves are spending. But they’re doing it their way. The Moneyball way.

Some fans argue that with all the money they’re saving on team-friendly contracts like those signed by Ronald Acuña Jr and Ozzie Albies, the Braves can afford to swim in the deep waters of free agency, hunting whales like Moby Dick.

These fans miss the point. The Braves don’t drive past Bloomingdale’s on their way to Kohls because they can’t afford the big name brands. They do so because they believe they can maximize value by spreading it out, carefully weighing the likely return of each dollar they spend.

The more money, Alex Anthopoulos has to spend, the more he will dispense it in the exact same manner he has since arriving in Atlanta.

“Yeah, but [insert player name] is worth it!”

Maybe so. But Alex Anthopoulos believes everything he could buy with that money instead of [big name, free agent] is *more* worth it.

What’s more, maximizing value means minimizing risk. And paying Juan Soto a half billion dollars to suit up in Atlanta doesn’t accomplish that.

It was fair to question AA’s methodology at the start. But 5 NL East titles and one World Series victory later, with the closing of Atlanta’s World Series window, nowhere in sight, it’s hard to argue that Moneyball, at least the way the Atlanta Braves play it, works.

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RT if your team got the weekend series win!

[Grant McAuley @grantmcauley]

#Braves could certainly make this rotation work down the stretch and in time to welcome Kyle Wright back next month.

I'll have to devise a new graphic at that point, however.

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The trade deadline has passed, and here is how the Postseason would look if it started today.

RT if your team would be in the playoffs!

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RT if your team got the weekend series W!