Talking Chop: For Atlanta Braves Fans

Brad is joined by Scott Coleman to break down the 2017 bullpen options. Beyond that, topics include Dustin Peterson's injury, strong starts from Ronald Acuna and Max Fried, the potential platoon at third base and much more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos begin the 2017 preview series by taking a look at the Braves bench group. Warning: this is the scariest position group of the team by far. It's not pretty. We also touch on the Fangraphs prospect list, talk Spring Training and take listener questions. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's one year of the Talking Chop Podcast! Brad and Carlos celebrate by doing the same thing they do every week: talk about the Braves. We touch on Sean Rodriguez' injury, Jim Johnson and Arodys Vizcaino in the bullpen, the backup first base spot, John Coppolella's Fox Sports South interview, take listener questions and more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos spend a majority of the show breaking down the Braves trade for Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips. We give our thoughts on Phillips as a player at this point in his career, the outlook for 2B now without Sean Rodriguez for a while and some possible ramifications for Ozzie Albies. We also touch on Baseball America's Top 100 list, which features eight different Braves prospects. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Braves Radio Network and 680 The Fan reporter Kevin McAlpin joins the show! Kevin breaks down what it's like being a Braves reporter in the offseason, gives us his thoughts on the team's winter moves and talks about what he's looking forward to in Spring Training. Finally, there's talk of a tandem bike ride with Mark Bowman. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos are joined by Talking Chop's longest-tenured writer, and smartest person, Scott Coleman. The three start the podcast off with some chat about Braves legends Jeff Francoeur and Kris Medlen before diving into the Top 100 prospect lists from ESPN's Keith Law and MLB Pipeline. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos are joined by Gaurav Vedak, one of Talking Chop's own prospect savants. Topics include the Kurt Suzuki signing, Atlanta players in the World Baseball Classic and the Mallex Smith trade. Lastly we pester Gaurav about the Braves farm system and make him tell us who "his guy" is. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos discuss Freddie Freeman's status among other MLB first baseman, talk a little bit about Matt Wisler and then jump into all the infield rumors that hit this week. To round out the show we take a few listener questions. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos get together on New Year's day to talk about Ender Inciarte's contract extension, the constant Matt Wieters rumors, Freddie Freeman and the biggest Braves stories of 2016. After all that we take a few listener questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad is joined by prospect guru Eric Cole to discuss John Danks, Mike Foltynewicz, TC's top-25 prospect list and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos give their thoughts on the Braves trading away Tyrell Jenkins, the Williams Perez release, what the Nationals are doing and how that impacts Atlanta, and then wrap things up with a pretty long discussion about Baseball America's top 10 Braves list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad and Carlos discuss the latest Atlanta Braves trades, revisit Chris Archer and Chris Sale rumors, talk about catching options and briefly touch on the new CBA. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad is joined by Joe Lucia (Awful Announcing, The Comeback) to discuss Sean Rodriguez, trade rumors, Ozzie Albies, CBA negotiations and much more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad is joined by Carlos Collazo to discuss trade rumors involving Chris Sale and Chris Archer, the pros and cons of Jason Castro, "untouchables" and much more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad is joined by TC's own Scott Coleman to discuss the signings of Bartolo Colon and R.A Dickey, options at catcher and whether the Braves could still pull the trigger on a big trade. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad rolls solo to discuss the rebuild of the Cubs vs. the rebuild of the Braves, the free agent prospects of Jason Hammel, Ryan Weber's farewell, Kevin Maitan's near future and much more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad is joined by Eric Cole to discuss Gold Glove finalists, Mallex Smith, Arizona Fall League, R.A. Dickey and much more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad is joined by Carlos Collazo to create fake trade scenarios, evaluate "off-limits" prospects, talk about Brian McCann and much more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad flies solo (from an airport) and topics include Brian Snitker, Ron Washington, pitching trades, 2017 lineup and much, much more. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad is joined by Scott Coleman to recap the entire 2016 Major League season, as well as to chat about the managerial situation. *Music by longzijun: longzijun.wordpress.com/music/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices