John Smoltz

The Braves had it so good for so long that, if you believe in the law of averages and baseball's cyclic and somewhat cosmic nature, their current predicament should come as no surprise. The one-time champion Braves...

Throughout his marvelous, sometimes dominating, oft-interrupted career, you could always count on John Smoltz to lay it all on the line. His effort. His talent. His emotions. His many, many, many opinions.

Braves pitcher John Smoltz, who notched his 3,000th career strikeout earlier this year, will have season-ending shoulder surgery that may well end his career, SI.com has confirmed. The 41-year-old Smoltz will not...

Hey Johan, bring back that Cy Young Award, would you? Seems like we might have been a little quick handing out the hardware.

ATLANTA -- At this stage in his long career, being a strikeout pitcher is not what John Smoltz really needs to be. He'll be 41 next month, you know. He's closing in on 3,500 innings of hard, sometimes painful work....