ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Atlanta Braves Spring Training is officially underway.<\/p>\n
Pitchers and catchers reported Tuesday, and manager Walt Weiss is already dealing with adversity as right-hander Spencer Schwellenbach will miss Opening Day \u2014 and likely more time \u2014 due to inflammation and bone spurs in his throwing elbow. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s just the latest to suffer the injury bug, joining shortstop Ha-Seong Kim, catcher Sean Murphy and right-hander Joe Jimenez as players who\u2019ll miss Opening Day.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Weiss announced that right-hander Hurston Waldrep<\/a> experienced right elbow discomfort following a recent live batting practice session and will see a doctor, potentially adding to the team\u2019s list of injuries this early in spring.<\/p>\n ON TV: Atlanta News First – Channel 46 over the air, DirecTV, YouTube TV, etc.<\/p>\n STREAMING: ANF+ – Download the free Atlanta News First app anywhere you stream (Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, etc)<\/p>\n WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 15, 6:30 p.m. <\/p>\n Atlanta News First Sports Director Baillie Burmaster has been in North Port, Florida, over the past week to cover the team\u2019s first week of spring training. <\/p>\n On Friday, the Braves and Gray Media announced 15 spring training games<\/a> would air for free on Atlanta News First and across Braves on Gray<\/a> stations across the Southeast. <\/p>\n Opening Day is March 27, when the Braves host the Kansas City Royals at Truist Park.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WANF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Atlanta Braves Spring Training is officially underway. Pitchers and catchers reported Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73042,4166,5,192,9752,44833,64431,73041,633,10367,4,1406,656,659,151,75492,74404,35610],"class_list":["post-575656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta-braves-spring-training","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-braves-on-gray","tag-braves-on-tv","tag-braves-opening-day","tag-braves-spring-training","tag-ha-seong-kim","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-mlb","tag-opening-day","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-spring-training","tag-spring-training-atlanta-braves","tag-spring-training-braves","tag-walt-weiss"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116080851428029140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575656","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=575656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}