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Get to know the Braves’ 2024 Opening Day Roster

Get to know the Braves’ 2024 Opening Day Roster

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Everything you need to know about the Braves Opening Day roster. The Atlanta Braves finalized their roster for Opening Day Thursday morning when they selected the contract of veteran reliever Jesse Chavez. Below is our annual preview to you up to speed in case you are just coming back to baseball for the start of the regular season. Photo by Julio Aguilar/ 49 - Aaron Bummer - LHP Age: 30 Birthplace: Valencia, CAAcquired: Traded from the White Sox to the Braves on November 16, 2023 in exchange for Nicky Lopez,...
Mar 26, 2024
Braves reportedly outright Jackson Stephens to Triple-A, paving the way for Jesse Chavez on Opening Day roster

Braves reportedly outright Jackson Stephens to Triple-A, paving the way for Jesse Chavez on Opening Day roster

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/ This is how you get Jesse Chavez in the bullpen on Opening Day It turns out the tentative Opening Day roster was, in fact, tentative: Jackson Stephens has been outrighted to Gwinnett. This was the expected move to create a spot for Jesse Chavez.— Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) March 26, 2024 So, welcome back to the big league roster, Jesse Chavez. We hardly missed ye, after all. Chavez returns after posting 0.7 fWAR in his age-39, injury-shortened campaign that saw him generate a ridiculous 35 ERA-, 71 FIP-, and 78 xFIP-. Over his last three...
Mar 22, 2024
Not on the Opening Day roster? No problem!

Not on the Opening Day roster? No problem!

Set Number: x164202 TK1 Just because someone isn’t on the Opening Day roster doesn’t mean they can’t have a big, and often immediate, impact on the season As I sit down to write this, we are a week away from Opening Day, and the Braves are playing out the string on the remainder of Spring Training. Usually, the month that precedes Opening Day is used to address roster questions, and determine who heads north with the team. But, this year, the whole “competition” aspect has been incredibly muted. The Braves essentially cut their “guys in camp” quantity down...
Mar 21, 2024
Morton, Lee, and other regulars get another tune-up in 5-2 win over Yankees

Morton, Lee, and other regulars get another tune-up in 5-2 win over Yankees

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Morton lasted five frames, Dylan Lee pitched a perfect frame, and the bats got some hacks in Another day, another late-March Spring Training game in the books. This time, the Braves hosted the Yankees in North Port and came away winners by a score of 5-2. Charlie Morton pitched five frames, Dylan Lee added a perfect inning, and a lineup full of regulars got some good hacks in. Let’s start with Morton. In his last Spring Training outing, I was pseudo-lamenting his issues facing lefties, and well... there are still issues facing...
Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday evening open thread

Tuesday evening open thread

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/ The roster is set, but will it be the actual Opening Day roster? So, the Opening Day roster for the 2024 Braves appears to be set... but there is still more than a week to go, and the Braves could pivot as other teams trim their rosters. So, I pose to you the following: Who do you have your eye on as a roster casualty from another team that the Braves could try to add? Who do you think will be a guy that plays a huge role this season that doesn’t make the Opening Day roster?
Mar 18, 2024
Braves cut Spring Training roster down to the bone, essentially finalize Opening Day squad

Braves cut Spring Training roster down to the bone, essentially finalize Opening Day squad

Photo by Julio Aguilar/ Prepare to say hello to Forrest Wall and Luis Guillorme, Braves Opening Day Roster 2024 members (but don’t say hello just yet). The Braves have seven Spring Training games left. That’s a lot more than the number of current players in official Spring camp that remain to be cut from this roster, after the latest round of moves: The #Braves today reassigned C Drake Baldwin, C Chadwick Tromp, INF David Fletcher, INF Andrew Velazquez, INF Luke Williams and OF Eli White to minor league camp. Atlanta now has 28 players in camp.— Atlanta Braves...
Mar 18, 2024
Fried, Braves schlep through another Spring defeat

Fried, Braves schlep through another Spring defeat

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/ Fried was fine and got BABIPed, the offense did normal things before the backups took over, you get the idea We all know about the dog days of summer at this point, but do they have a spring equivalent? Like maybe the crab days of spring, because the constellation Cancer is most visible in the Northern Hemisphere in March? We’ll workshop it, I guess. Anyway, the Braves and Rays tangled in Port Charlotte this afternoon, and things went pretty much how you’d expect for a team with little to figure out at this point playing...
Mar 16, 2024
Braves vs Pirates Spring Training Game Thread

Braves vs Pirates Spring Training Game Thread

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Saturday afternoon exhibition action The Braves will send forth a lineup of regulars, with one key omission, to back Charlie Morton in North Port on Saturday evening. Night game in North Port! #BravesST pic.twitter.com/TnqRLVp7CU— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) March 16, 2024
Mar 13, 2024
Elder scuffles in Sarasota slugfest, Arcia and Luplow go deep in 7-5 win

Elder scuffles in Sarasota slugfest, Arcia and Luplow go deep in 7-5 win

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via At least Elder rebounded after a nightmarish first inning After Reynaldo Lopez had an inconsistent outing on Tuesday afternoon, there was maybe an outside chance for Bryce Elder to do... something vis-a-vis his status for the Opening Day roster. As I noted in the game thread, I’m not sure that performance really has much to do with it at this point, given Lopez’ flexibility and the fact that he’s unlikely to get stretched out later. At the same time, I’m not going to pretend that every player is definitively trying to...
Mar 6, 2024
Wednesday evening open thread

Wednesday evening open thread

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via No Spring Training game today? No problem. It’s not like the Spring Training game threads were hopping with excitement anyway, but consider this your open thread for the day’s needs. Today’s topic of discussion: how many major league, regular season innings will Ken Giles pitch in an Atlanta Braves uniform this year?
Mar 5, 2024
2024 MLB Season Preview: Pittsburgh Pirates

2024 MLB Season Preview: Pittsburgh Pirates

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/ A weak division and expanded playoffs could make for an interesting season in Pittsburgh It’s generally not too much fun to be a Pirates fan, at least not if you care about winning baseball. The franchise dates all the way back to 1882 (which is the same year that Robert Ford assassinated Jesse James), and has made just 17 playoff appearances in its history. Six of those have come from 1990-on, and those six were part of two three-season-long stretches, the most recent of which was 2013-2015. In that sense, continued...
Mar 4, 2024
Smith-Shawver changes it up, Olson goes yard in 4-3 Spring loss to Twins

Smith-Shawver changes it up, Olson goes yard in 4-3 Spring loss to Twins

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Smith-Shawver’s changeup had a great afternoon on Monday in Fort Myers AJ Smith-Shawver had a rough first Spring Training outing, but emphasized his changeup to great effect in an eventual 4-3 Grapefruit League loss to the Twins on Monday afternoon. Smith-Shawver threw just 48 changeups in the majors last season (a rate below 11 percent), but despite an ostensible lack of command and a shape that suffered from both poor shape and massive inconsistency in motion, the pitch had great stats: a .068 xwOBA-against and a 50 percent...
Mar 4, 2024
Braves at Twins Spring Training Game Thread

Braves at Twins Spring Training Game Thread

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via AJ Smith-Shawver gets the start with some regulars making the trip as well AJ Smith-Shawver and some lineup regulars will make the trip to Fort Myers this afternoon, to take on the Twins. Smith-Shawver got knocked around a bit in his first outing, but there’s still plenty of runway for him or any other fifth starter candidate to establish themselves as a frontrunner to make the Opening Day roster. Lineups are as follows: Smith-Shawver gets the start!#BravesST pic.twitter.com/jhQBmbWgIk— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) March 4,...

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