The Braves season of off-season almosts continue with Ryan Dempster and the visiting Chicago Cubs. Dempster was reportedly one of the pitchers the Braves were interested in this off-season before the Cubs swooped in and re-signed him to a contract befitting a pitcher who is twice as good.
The guy we most likely got instead, Javier Vazquez, will face off against Demp -- another nice subplot to this Braves game (there've been a lot of subplots lately).