{"id":575090,"date":"2026-02-16T05:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/575090\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:39:22","slug":"roundtable-rundown-ep-9-braves-injuries-bryce-harper-responds-to-dave-dombrowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/575090\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtable Rundown EP 9: Braves&#8217; Injuries, Bryce Harper Responds to Dave Dombrowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest episode of The Roundtable Rundown Show is live, as host Joey Mistretta talks about the <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/mlb\/braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Braves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Braves<\/a>&#8216; starting pitching injuries, Bryce Harper&#8217;s latest comments, Zac Gallen returning to the Arizona Diamondbacks and Roman Anthony potentially replacing Corbin Carroll on Team USA&#8217;s World Baseball Classic roster.<\/p>\n<p>It was recently announced that Spencer Schwellenbach and Hurston Waldrep are both dealing with elbow injuries. While neither pitcher has an official injury timeline yet, Schwellenbach is expected to miss a significant amount of time. Meanwhile, the Braves will find out more about Waldrep&#8217;s injury in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Braves&#8217; current rotation is expected to include Chris Sale, Spencer Strider, Reynaldo Lopez and Grant Holmes. Signing another starter &#8212; perhaps Lucas Giolito or Walker Buehler &#8212; could prove to be the best move. Atlanta&#8217;s rotation is dealing with serious uncertainty, and making an addition is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2025 campaign, Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said Bryce Harper did not have an &#8220;elite&#8221; &#8217;25 season. The comments gained traction and fans wondered what Harper would have to say about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He recently commented, admitting that the situation was &#8220;kind of wild.&#8221; Harper clearly was not a fan of the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Video via John Clark:<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies will hope that the situation does not become a distraction as they look to win their first World Series since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Gallen is back!<\/p>\n<p>The pitcher declined the Diamondbacks&#8217; $22.025 million qualifying offer early in the offseason to test free agency. Gallen seemingly did not receive a multi-year offer that he wanted, though, so he re-signed with the Diamondbacks on a one-year, $22.025 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, he did not lose any money with his qualifying offer decision. It was still likely a frustrating offseason for him. His 2025 performance was lackluster, however. If he can bounce back in 2026, Gallen should receive a respectable multi-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Anthony is expected to replace Carroll &#8212; who recently suffered a broken hamate &#8212; on Team USA&#8217;s World Baseball Classic roster. For Carroll, the injury is unfortunate as he won&#8217;t be able to play in the WBC. Anthony will attempt to make an impact on the roster, assuming he is indeed officially added.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check back next week for another episode of The Roundtable Rundown Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest episode of The Roundtable Rundown Show is live, as host Joey Mistretta talks about the Atlanta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[22,191,46,4166,5,192,1207,919,75438,1538,554,640,38015,585,4,40,5171,793,659,773,115,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-575090","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-harper","15":"tag-chris-sale","16":"tag-classic-roster","17":"tag-corbin-carroll","18":"tag-dave-dombrowski","19":"tag-grant-holmes","20":"tag-hurston-waldrep","21":"tag-lucas-giolito","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-phillies","24":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","25":"tag-roman-anthony","26":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","27":"tag-spencer-strider","28":"tag-walker-buehler","29":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116078704400028212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575090","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=575090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}