Beat reporter Bowman answers queries from Braves fans in the latest edition of the Inbox. Leading off: a question about whether the club would shop Jair Jurrjens before or during Spring Training. ...

The Braves hope to move their high Class-A affiliate from Lynchburg, Va., to Wilmington, N.C.,  fulfilling an organizational aim of owning all Braves minor league teams and operating them in top-notch facilities. The Wilmington City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to begin negotiations with the Braves and Mandalay Baseball Properties, and to explore the level of public support and costs and funding option ...

Former Braves all-star Dale Murphy is a well-known Twitter fanatic, sharing his insights into the Braves, art and his favorite band, the alt-country outfit Wilco. ...

The Braves are interested in moving their Class-A team from Lynchburg, Va., to Wilmington, N.C., and Wilmington officials are going to see if they can make it happen. Wilmington’s City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to begin negotiations with the Braves and Mandalay Baseball Properties, and to explore the level of public support, potential cost and funding for a ballpark necessary to bring the team ...

Atlanta might be known for pitching more than any other organization in the last two decades. Right now, the Braves fully intend to make the right-handed trio of Julio Teheran, Arodys Viczaino and Randall Delgado -- the team's top three prospects -- a part of their future plans, not someone else's. ...

The Braves will begin wearing an alternate jersey that looks much like the ones Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews wore when they helped introduce Major League Baseball to Atlanta. ...

The Braves will unveil a new crème-colored home uniform on Monday that will probably seem familiar to fans of a certain age. The design closely resembles the home uniform worn by the Hank Aaron-led Braves during their first two seasons in Atlanta in 1966-1967, right down to the player number instead of a tomahawk beneath the “Braves” script on front of the jersey. The new home-alternate uniform (right) will ...

There aren't many things former Braves manager Bobby Cox has not experienced in the baseball world. Still, there was a genuine sense of excitement in his voice when he was asked about the opportunity to manage against the Braves for the first time. ...

Bobby Cox has decided to manage the Braves again. Well, sort of. The longtime former Braves skipper, who retired after the 2010 season, will manage Braves prospects in an April 3 exhibition game against the big-league Braves at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. General manager Frank Wren made the announcement Friday. Officially called the Braves Stars vs. Future Stars game, it features current Braves against ...

When a reporter mentioned this week that Jason Heyward had dropped about 20 pounds during the offseason and asked Chipper Jones if he’d noticed a difference in Heyward’s physique and how it affected his swing, Jones smiled and pretty much scoffed. The Braves hope to see more of this from Jason Heyward in 2012. He's been working with their new hitting coaches and with Chipper Jones. For the record, the n ...

As the holiday season neared, Tommy Hanson did not seem overly concerned about his right shoulder. Since starting his throwing program in early January, the Braves pitcher has gained more reason to believe he will not have any limitations when Spring Training begins. ...

Craig Kimbrel does not intend to rest on his laurels or dwell on the disastrous conclusion to his memorable rookie season. In fact, it does not seem like the Braves' closer has much interest in thinking about what happened last year. ...

Slick-fielding shortstop prospect Andrelton Simmons, pitchers Sean Gilmartin and Zeke Spruill, and top catching prospect Christian Bethancourt made the Braves’ updated list of non-roster spring training invitees announced Tuesday. Eight of the Braves’ top nine prospects (as rated by Baseball America) will be in big-league camp, including four already on the 40-man roster: pitchers Julio Teheran, Arodys Vizc ...

For most of last season, the Braves were as good as any team in the game and that's what they expect to be in 2012. ...

Away from all the noise, all the tweets, all the reminders of his rough 2011 season, Jason Heyward stepped into the batting cage at Turner Field earlier this month for a quiet moment between hitters. ...