The lineup isn\u2019t the only place where Walt Weiss and the Atlanta Braves are now throwing throwing things at the wall and trying to figure out what sticks during this rough patch. The rotation has been the heart of the issue, as even when the Braves do score runs, their starters have gotten hit too hard on a somewhat regular basis while struggling in recent times.<\/p>\n
As such, there\u2019s also room in the rotation after JR Ritchie got sent down to Triple-A earlier today. As such, Reynaldo L\u00f3pez will now be getting another chance in the rotation. Mark Bowman of MLB.com reported the news on social media.<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez last pitched on this past Sunday, which is when he provided three innings of relief in what ended up being a loss for the Braves. In fact, this\u2019ll be L\u00f3pez\u2019s first start since April 21, which is when he got blown up for four runs on five hits and three walks in just one inning of work against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n
Ever since then, L\u00f3pez has been serving as a reliever where he\u2019s actually been pretty solid. Ever since moving to the \u2018pen on a full-time basis, L\u00f3pez has thrown 22 innings and produced an ERA of 3.27 (78 ERA-) and a FIP of 3.92 (96 FIP-) — numbers that aren\u2019t spectacular but would be sorely needed for the rotation if he can translate that into starts.<\/p>\n
Nine of L\u00f3pez\u2019s 13 starts saw him go further than just one inning and as.I mentioned earlier, he actually went three innings not too long ago. He\u2019ll be on a somewhat normal cycle of rest ahead of this start and it\u2019s clear that the Braves are hoping that he\u2019ll be able to give them something solid against the Giants. Assuming he does well (or well enough), he\u2019ll likely be slotting into the rotation since the Braves are in pretty dire need of rotation help at the moment. Hopefully he\u2019ll be able to harness what he found during the 2024 season where he produced the best year of his career as a starter. Let\u2019s see what happens with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lineup isn\u2019t the only place where Walt Weiss and the Atlanta Braves are now throwing throwing things…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[36682,363,99],"class_list":["post-724231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves-news","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724231","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=724231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}