{"id":608749,"date":"2026-03-06T00:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:35:18","slug":"where-ailing-braves-can-pivot-with-arm-injuries-mounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608749\/","title":{"rendered":"Where ailing Braves can pivot with arm injuries mounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves\u2019 rotation was hit by elbow injuries <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/10\/sports\/braves-spencer-schwellenbach-land-on-60-day-il\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a> and Hurston Waldrep, and there\u2019s no good reason they shouldn\u2019t make a play for Lucas Giolito, who shockingly is still available.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves make undeniably enormous profits, a fact well known since they\u2019re owned by a public company. No excuses!<\/p>\n<p>Braves OF\/DH Jurickson Profar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/03\/sports\/braves-jurickson-profar-facing-162-game-ban-for-peds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second PED ban in two years<\/a> is another big blow. Profar got his big $42M, three-year deal off his career year in 2024 with the Padres. Now we know the secret to that year.<\/p>\n<p>He only received half a year\u2019s pay last year due to his first ban, and assuming he loses his appeal this year, will be paid nothing. But if he had any integrity, he\u2019d pay back his ill-gotten $7M from 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves\u2019 rotation was hit by elbow injuries to Spencer Schwellenbach and Hurston Waldrep, and there\u2019s no good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[72,191,46,4166,5,48,192,4,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-608749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-boston-red-sox","14":"tag-braves","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116179430540454106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608749","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=608749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}