--General manager Frank Wren estimates that the Braves are "within a year of having a pretty consistent flow of talent from our minor leagues again. 

Despite the disappointing season, manager Bobby Cox is looking toward 2009 with rose-colored glasses. 

While the White Sox made their major off-season moves early -- trading Javier Vazquez and Nick Swisher -- they may not be done retooling in hopes of going deeper than four games into the playoffs, as they did last season. 

The Dodgers aren't making much progress in keeping Manny, but L. 

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The Yanks now have four of the highest-paid players in baseball. 

For Jonathan Katz, the tall antenna tower across the highway from his cluttered Turner Broadcasting System office on Techwood Drive is a nice reminder of where it all began. 

What do Manny and Chase Utley have in common? Find out as we look back on baseball's strangest performances of 2008. 

--General manager Frank Wren estimates that the Braves are "within a year of having a pretty consistent flow of talent from our minor leagues again. 

Despite the disappointing season, manager Bobby Cox is looking toward 2009 with rose-colored glasses. 

The air inside the Braves clubhouse used to be that of inevitability and invincibility. 

--General manager Frank Wren estimates that the Braves are "within a year of having a pretty consistent flow of talent from our minor leagues again. 

Despite the disappointing season, manager Bobby Cox is looking toward 2009 with rose-colored glasses. 

The air inside the Braves clubhouse used to be that of inevitability and invincibility. 

--General manager Frank Wren estimates that the Braves are "within a year of having a pretty consistent flow of talent from our minor leagues again.