For most of this season, when Will Benson saw a left-handed pitcher glaring at him from the pitcher’s mound, it was like seeing a 10-foot ogre with snarling fangs.

The Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves on Aug. 2 will play the first regular-season game in Tennessee in MLB history.

Not that it was not already going to be an important winter for the Atlanta Braves, but while the rest of Major League Baseball was wheeling and dealing Thursday, Atlanta ...