Don’t be deceived by the Braves’ second third place in the standings – they’re in the division that refuses to have anyone other than the Nationals at over .500 in record, and if the Braves were in almost any other division in the majors, they’d be the last place team they deserve to be. Which speaks volumes to how much the Phillies and Marlins are sucking, when they’re somehow worse than the Braves and the Mets.
Needless to say, despite “not” being a “last place” team, the Braves are smart enough to continuously be putting feelers out in the world, and looking for diamonds in the rough. Which is to say, the Braves are a notoriously cheap team that is always hoping to find diamonds in the rough that they can pay the absolute minimal amount of salary and hope to get the absolute maximum amount of output for.
With that being said, the Braves are one of the few teams in baseball left that still holds open tryouts, with 2017 being no exception. Yes, that is exactly what it sounds like, where the Atlanta Braves conduct baseball tryouts, to the public, to see if there’s any diamonds in any rough, that are worth taking a flyer out on, and offer the slightest sliver of chance at earning the chance to get paid (peanuts) to play baseball, professionally.
I LITRALLY could sign a form, show up to one of their locations, and try out to play professional baseball, for the Atlanta Braves organization. This isn’t to say that any old person could go from their mom’s couch on Monday to suiting up and starting first base for the Atlanta Braves, the person(s) that actually make it out of open tryouts probably end up in like Florida at the instructional league, or Danville at the Braves’ rookie ball meant primarily for high school signees and freshly drafted college players.
But still, despite today’s environment of highly scouted and computerized player selection, the Braves are one of those teams that still uses the antiquated process of conducting open tryouts to see if they can snag overlooked talent for peanuts. I could go tryout for the Braves. Any one of my six readers could go tryout for the Braves. Sure, the likelihood of anyone becoming the next Ken Ray, and go from nothing to the majors is slim to none, but good for the Braves for being cheap motherfuckers and willing to sink numerous days and man-hours to look for cheap disposable talent, and hope to get one good arm that might shift one player on the entire organizational chart, to justify moving LOOGY #2 from Danville to Rome.
Let’s all go tryout for the Braves! It’s hard to imagine any human being with a pulse couldn’t be worse than Macay McBride.
