The man whose absence defined his team’s 2024 has been delightfully unavoidable so far in spring training. Ronald Acuña Jr., the Atlanta Braves’ franchise man, a power-speed dynamo of the highest ...

This is, in a quote, the essence of Strider. On the mound, he fires a superhuman triple-digit fastball. Behind the scenes, he’s as calculated as anyone. He has fallen in love with the process over the ...