I\u2019m shamelessly stealing from the comments, here.<\/p>\n
Unless there\u2019s a move on the rotation side, Bryce Elder will probably begin the year in Atlanta\u2019s rotation. Joey Wentz is out of options, as is Elder. Seems reasonable \u2014 unless you\u2019re willing to roll the dice on the Braves going in a very different direction at this point in the offseason.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, I won\u2019t linger because you get the contours of the question. The FanGraphs Depth Chart assignment has Elder throwing 109 innings as a starter and ten in relief; for Wentz, it\u2019s 18 innings as a starter and 34 in relief. The range of other projection systems features the combination of these two guys going about 110 to 240 innings, though you shouldn\u2019t take the upper end of that range seriously because that\u2019s more of a \u201chow healthy are they?\u201d measure than a depth chart-informed one.<\/p>\n
My own sense is that if both guys were given free rein, they\u2019d basically total about 100, on average, before injuries\/performance saw their playing time curtailed. But they\u2019re also somewhat competing with one another for innings provided the pitching staff health isn\u2019t entirely a shambles, so I don\u2019t know. 150ish might be reasonable but not exciting; I responded to said comment earlier saying that it felt like placing the over\/under at 130 would be great to maximize betting, but with the Braves not signing Chris Bassitt for his fine enough deal with the Orioles, bumping that towards 170 might make more sense \u2014 at least for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m shamelessly stealing from the comments, here. Unless there\u2019s a move on the rotation side, Bryce Elder will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[22,191,46,4166,5,192,4720,82,919,1628,640,9636,1710,4,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-568327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-bryce-elder","15":"tag-chris-bassitt","16":"tag-chris-sale","17":"tag-getty-images","18":"tag-grant-holmes","19":"tag-icon-sportswire","20":"tag-joey-wentz","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116058308182397789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}