{"id":623438,"date":"2026-03-14T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623438\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:04:21","slug":"who-gets-the-most-2026-innings-jr-ritchie-or-didier-fuentes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623438\/","title":{"rendered":"Who gets the most 2026 innings: JR Ritchie or Didier Fuentes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Didier Fuentes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-scores\/127356\/braves-pitching-strong-and-farmer-stays-hot-in-victory-over-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his presence<\/a> with authority yesterday. It\u2019s only Spring Training, but a 5\/0 K\/BB ratio will get you noticed. Watch this 98.7 MPH fastball yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now pair that with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/2032511489173533151\" rel=\"nofollow\">this sweeper<\/a>. Didier definitely showed off the goods yesterday against the Yankees road lineup. It\u2019s definitely enough to get him involved in the Braves\u2019 rotation conversation. But he\u2019s not the only prospect knocking on the door. JR Ritchie has also looked good this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ritchie offers a fastball, sinker, sweeper, curveball, changeup, and cutter. He\u2019s not tinkering; He\u2019s administering, as JR appears to get results with all of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So who gets the most 2026 innings: JR Ritchie or Didier Fuentes? If I had to guess, JR Ritchie has a path to the Opening Day rotation, and failing that might debut in Atlanta before Fuentes returns. They\u2019l send Didier Fuentes to AAA save a nighmare scenario. He has less than 50 innings in the upper minors. I\u2019m not sure the Braves can quit Bryce Elder to start the year. Martin Perez is hanging around as well. But you know the prospects will get their chance. If I had to lean one way or another, I\u2019d say JR Ritchie. Though after watching yesterday, Didier Fuentes make become undeniable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Didier Fuentes announced his presence with authority yesterday. It\u2019s only Spring Training, but a 5\/0 K\/BB ratio will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73299,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-623438","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-discussion","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116227674620981694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623438","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=623438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}