the severity of the strain<\/a>. If it\u2019s a Grade 1 strain then this should just be a straight-up 10-day stint on the IL. We know it\u2019s probably not a Grade 3 strain since that likely would\u2019ve qualified as a tear and Grade 2 might require a somewhat extended absence with a rehab stint involved. So yeah, here\u2019s hoping that it\u2019s just Grade 1 since that wouldn\u2019t be too awful \u2014 and also another truly severe leg injury the last thing Acu\u00f1a needs in his career at the moment.<\/p>\nRonald Acu\u00f1a Jr. will be heading to the IL after having a somewhat slow start to the season, for his standards at least. He\u2019s been hitting .252\/.362\/.378 with a .335 wOBA, .381 xwOBA and 11 wRC+ with two home runs. That\u2019s definitely below the standard level of production that you\u2019d like to see from Acu\u00f1a but at least his underlying stats (especially his xwOBA) seemed to indicate that a turnaround was likely going to come at some point. Now, the turnaround will be complicated a bit as he recovers from this hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Jos\u00e9 Az\u00f3car will be making his first appearance for the Braves since June of last year. He made a couple of appearances as a substitute and and only made one plate appearance during that time, which was a fly out to center field \u2014 against the Rockies, no less. Az\u00f3car has been doing fine at the Triple-A level so far as he\u2019s hit at a .270\/.348\/.420 clip with a .351 wOBA and a 106 wRC+, which is to say that we probably shouldn\u2019t be expecting him to set the world on fire while he\u2019s up.<\/p>\n
Also involved in this news: Hunter Stratton has been optioned down to Triple-A as the corresponding move for the inevitable Spencer Strider activation. Stratton\u2019s only appearance for the Braves came on Saturday night, which is when he pitched a scoreless ninth inning to seal a very comfortable series win for the Braves over the Rockies. He\u2019ll now be rejoining the Stripers, which is where he has a 4.50 ERA and 3.82 FIP over 11 appearances and 12 innings pitched at that level so far.<\/p>\n
Strider will now attempt to have a successful season debut at Coors Field. It\u2019s certainly a tricky proposition but one where there\u2019s not a lot of pressure considering the fact that they\u2019ve already clinched yet another series win and have gotten off to a fantastic start to the season, overall. Still, it\u2019s a bit of a bummer that as one core player of this Braves team gets activated, another core player heads to the IL. So it goes for this team, I suppose.<\/p>\n
[UPDATE 1:30 p.m. ET]: It is, in fact, a Grade 1 strain for Acu\u00f1a (per report from Chad Bishop of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Granted, you don\u2019t want to see him go on the IL at all but if it\u2019s a Grade 1 strain then he\u2019s looking at a recovery time of 2-3 weeks \u2014 maybe even just 10 days if it\u2019s a best-case scenario. All things considered, we\u2019ll take that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welp! An Atlanta Braves outfielder is going on the IL \u2014 just not the one who had apparently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[268979,99],"class_list":["post-621528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-atlanta-braves-injuries","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}