{"id":571273,"date":"2026-02-14T01:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571273\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:41:26","slug":"braves-likely-not-signing-a-starting-pitcher-ahead-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571273\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves likely not signing a starting pitcher ahead of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmllgj0cy000e01v035n9xoij@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The Atlanta Braves&#8217; first week in North Port, Florida did not get off to the best start after the team announced pitcher, Spencer Schwellenbach, would be placed on the 60-day injured list for bone spurs in his right elbow, requiring arthroscopic procedure with no timeline set for his return.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmllgtbu5001y357vz636ifx8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">On Friday, Braves President, Baseball Operations and General Manager, Alex Anthopoulos spoke to members of the media and addressed whether the club is considering signing a free agent in the wake of Schwellenbach\u2019s injury, to which he explained ultimately the club is financially able to do so, however feels confident where they are with remaining starters.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmllgtbve001z357vr48d4y4e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cIt sounds like, \u2018yeah, I was thinking about it.<br \/>We maybe threw it around,\u2019\u201d 92-9 The Game\u2019s Carl Duke\u2019s said on Friday as he and Mark Zinno shared thoughts on Anthopoulos\u2019 answer to signing a pitcher. \u201cIt just sounds like he\u2019s not going to do,\u201d Dukes added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Braves&#8217; first week in North Port, Florida did not get off to the best start after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-571273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116066444261560888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571273","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=571273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}