Because spring training is just 10 days away. Since it’s 10 days away, let’s rock and roll our way through our top 10 reasons we’re looking forward to spring training! I’m not going to bother ranking these – add your own and rank ‘em if ya want.

• It’ll be Baseball Season!
• Getting a first look at Lowe / Kawakami / Vazquez
• Seeing the (hopefully) new and improved Jeff Francoeur
• Getting a glimpse of Tommy Hanson
• Watching Jason Heyward and Jordan Schafer as the future of our outfield develops.
• Watching Casey Kotchman begin his first full year with the Braves.
• Watching Bobby & Terry in the dugout get back to the grind
• Watching Blanco, Anderson, Diaz, and Brandon Jones fight it out (throw Schafer in there) for two or three outfield roster slots.
• A BravesBlast staff trip to Florida for sun and baseball.
• Knowing that games at the Ted are just around the corner.

So with pitchers and catchers reporting in 10 days and the first games of Spring Training only a few weeks away, there is still a lot up in the air and at stake for the Braves.  There are question marks about the aribtration status of KJ and Frenchy.  We still don’t know the fate of Will Ohman for the season.  And we’re far from being sure what the Braves outfield will look like this year.  But Spring Training lets us know that answers to these questions are coming down the pipe.

What are you excited about for Spring Training, Braves fans?  This is the time of the year when every club is hopeful and looking forward to improving what didn’t go quite right in the previous seasons.  Before we know it, once again we’ll be at the Ted and kicking off the 2009 season.