{"id":648063,"date":"2026-05-17T05:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648063\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:39:08","slug":"braves-news-spencer-strider-breaking-balls-taking-stock-of-the-season-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648063\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves News: Spencer Strider breaking balls, taking stock of the season, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Braves<\/a> lost Saturday night and will now have a chance at 1:35 PM ET today to take the series win with them from a series that they really should win. Once again, bullpen fatigue bit them, as this sort of six-man rotation arrangement with two hybrid-long-men in Reynaldo Lopez<\/a> (who is also untrustworthy) and Didier Fuentes<\/a>, two generally untrustworthy arms at the moment in Aaron Bummer<\/a> and Tyler Kinley<\/a>, and three absolute studs just is putting the Braves continually in bad spots and has directly contributed to a few losses this season. It\u2019s a tough spot, roster0wuse, but they have got to figure out a way to have starters pitch effectively longer, have more arms they can trust in the bullpen, and\/or use Reynaldo Lopez and Didier Fuentes more frequently. They\u2019re still playing very well and aren\u2019t paying much of a price in the standings, but this is not a tenable situation for another ~115 games.<\/p>\n

Braves News<\/p>\n

Ivan took his twice-monthly look at the state of the team<\/a>, how the season is going, and how players are performing.<\/p>\n

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Demetrius took a look at the exceptional performance of Spencer Strider\u2019s breaking balls this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Braves lost a tight one, 3-2 to the Red Sox, as they once again suffered from a short bullpen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MLB News<\/p>\n

Dodgers\u2019 star Blake Snell is set to get surgery for loose bodies in his elbow<\/a>, which has felt like a common occurrence league-wide this season.<\/p>\n

The Angels are activating offseason trade addition Grayson Rodriguez off the IL today<\/a>, as the once top prospect hopes to put his injury woes behind him.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox placed Trevor Story on the IL with a groin issu<\/a>e.<\/p>\n

Jose Berrios is having elbow surgery Wednesday<\/a> to repair a stress fracture and possible ligament damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves lost Saturday night and will now have a chance at 1:35 PM ET today to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[142552,8974,13087,4,450,99956,101896,451,379,3,28624,136689,18702,452,453,28646,27360],"class_list":["post-648063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-aaron-bummer","tag-blake-snell","tag-braves","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-didier-fuentes","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-headlines","tag-jose-berrios","tag-news","tag-red-sox","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-spencer-strider","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-trevor-story","tag-tyler-kinley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648063","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=648063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}