{"id":618491,"date":"2026-03-11T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/618491\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:55:38","slug":"braves-news-jr-ritchie-makes-first-spring-start-mock-draft-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/618491\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves News: JR Ritchie makes first spring start, mock draft, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlanta Braves dropped Tuesday\u2019s spring contest<\/a> against the Toronto Blue Jays, 7-0. The bats were quiet, with Atlanta recording just six hits. More so than the bats, pitching was a struggle. JR Ritchie made his first start of the spring and went four innings. He gave up two runs on a single hit. He walked four and recorded a couple of strikeouts. Jos\u00e9 Suarez came in to relieve Ritchie, and in 2.2 innings he was tagged with five runs.<\/p>\n

Overall, it was a lackluster day for the Braves, who look to bounce back this afternoon against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

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More Braves News:<\/p>\n

Baseball America\u2019s recent mock draft<\/a> has the Braves taking an outfielder out of the University of Virginia and a shortstop out of high school in Alabama.<\/p>\n

Our 2026 positional preview series<\/a> continues, and this time, we\u2019re checking in on the infield.<\/p>\n

Several familiar names were on FanGraphs\u2019 updated Top 33 Prospects<\/a> list.<\/p>\n

MLB News:<\/p>\n

Former Brave Julio Teheran announced his retirement<\/a>. Two days prior to the announcement, he missed his scheduled start in the World Baseball Classic due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Reds right-hander Hunter Greene will have elbow surgery<\/a> today and is expected to be out until July. The arthroscopic procedure will remove bone chips and loose bodies from his throwing elbow.<\/p>\n

The Washington Nationals signed right-hander Zack Littell to a one-year, $7M deal.<\/a> The deal includes a mutual option for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Braves dropped Tuesday\u2019s spring contest against the Toronto Blue Jays, 7-0. The bats were quiet, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[46,5,19637,50,2102,157,28293,54771,4,297,79923,2550,68,2551,2549,5095,70,71,5170],"class_list":["post-618491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-braves-news","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-hunter-greene","tag-jose-suarez","tag-jr-ritchie","tag-julio-teheran","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-spring-contest","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-the-braves","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-washington-nationals","tag-zack-littell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116210653469453036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618491","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=618491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}