Atlanta Braves facing uphill battle in targeting Patrick Corbin

Sometimes, the stopped clock is right… at least for a minute at a time. This might be one of those minutes… but it may not matter.

In his press conference last week, Atlanta Braves General Manager Alex Anthopoulos spoke of getting “value” when spending monies in the free agent market.

This weekend, a number of sports news outlets have been reading from the same script in thinking that they know where to find such value in an available starting pitcher.

All of this comes from Nick Cafardo’s monthly total speculation piece. As you may recall, we tend to have some disdain in these pages for Cafardo, as his musings seem to be based a lot more on conjecture and a lot less on his contacts in the…