Well, at least you can file this one under \u201cit shouldn\u2019t theoretically affect the Braves in 2026, I guess,\u201d if it makes you feel any better:<\/p>\n
This does seem more like a holdover from 2025\u2019s injury woes than a continuation into 2026, but it is what it is. The notable thing here is that once again, per Mark Bowman\u2019s reporting, that another Braves player felt a twinge (or more) of something, but played through it \u2014 in a lost season, no less. Sure, you can say that Jurickson Profar was already out of action for the whole season and didn\u2019t want to bail on his teammates further with the offseason coming up so soon, but a version of that logic is part of the problem when it comes to the Braves and injuries as it is.<\/p>\n
Profar posted a .294 xwOBA in September after a .396 xwOBA in August. It\u2019s tempting to say that at least part of his dropoff was something related to the aforementioned discomfort, but he also had a .291 xwOBA in July, so\u2026 who knows. I guess you could ascribe the July struggles to getting back up to speed after a suspension, and then September to the hey-I-have-a-hernia, but now you\u2019ve got a whole assumption stew going and I mostly just want french fries and a candy bar.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this shouldn\u2019t affect Profar in 2026 (even though, if you\u2019ve been following along, of course it will). He\u2019s still penciled in to be a primary starter, though may DH a lot given the presence of Mike Yastrzemski and Profar\u2019s ineptitude in the field. Maybe that makes the had-a-hernia-that-required-surgery situation a bit better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, at least you can file this one under \u201cit shouldn\u2019t theoretically affect the Braves in 2026, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4244,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-575347","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-injuries","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116079679437552367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575347","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=575347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}