{"id":573480,"date":"2026-02-15T05:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/573480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:51:15","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-roster-predictions-spring-training-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/573480\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Roster predictions, Spring Training, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There has been a decent bit of discussion around Alex Anthopoulos\u2019 comments regarding essentially only looking to add a starter who would be a middle\/top of the rotation guy and not really trying to add just a guy to fit into the back of the rotation. I have conflicted feelings on these comments. A guy like Chris Bassitt would have made this roster better on paper. That\u2019s not really something disputed. I think there is an argument if you think that Bryce Elder and\/or Joey Wentz are 1-1.5 fWAR\/162 starting pitchers, then adding a 2-2.5 fWAR\/162 starter for just under $20 million isn\u2019t good return on investment and doesn\u2019t substantially improve depth when it results on the likely loss of a guy like Elder from the roster entirely. One counter-argument to that would be that Elder or perhaps a Holmes or Lopez could be stashed in the bullpen to preserve depth if a guy like Bassitt had been added, but I don\u2019t see Elder as a particularly strong bullpen candidate and that scenario wouldn\u2019t have made much sense until Schwellenbach\u2019s injury status was discovered. That said, adding a top 3 starter to the roster for reasonable cost is a very difficult task, so perhaps that is an unrealistic self-imposed bar for adding to the pitching staff. It\u2019s an interesting approach and I hope that the Braves don\u2019t suffer from another plague of injuries to their pitching staff this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been a decent bit of discussion around Alex Anthopoulos\u2019 comments regarding essentially only looking to add&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-573480","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-atlanta-braves-news","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116073089134414915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573480","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=573480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}