{"id":744761,"date":"2026-07-06T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/744761\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:51:14","slug":"braves-officially-call-up-owen-murphy-dfa-carlos-carrasco-recall-jr-ritchie-and-place-martin-perez-on-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/744761\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves officially call up Owen Murphy, DFA Carlos Carrasco, recall JR Ritchie and place Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez on IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday night, we reported<\/a> that Owen Murphy would be the next big prospect call-up for the Atlanta Braves. This was after the news came out that Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez would likely be heading to the IL due to the injury that he suffered after getting hit with a comebacker during Sunday\u2019s loss to the Mets. We also speculated that Carlos Carrasco would be getting designated for assignment because, well, it\u2019s 2026 Carlos Carrasco and it\u2019s the 2026 Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n

Today, all of that news was confirmed as the Braves made their roster moves official. Owen Murphy is, in fact, being called up and Carlos Carrasco being DFA\u2019d is the corresponding move. Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez is heading to the IL and JR Ritchie has been recalled to the major league roster as a result.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say that it\u2019s pretty good news that P\u00e9rez got away from that incident with just a contusion. It\u2019s still tough to lose him for at least 15 days but we\u2019ll take that over a fracture or any other type of structural damage for P\u00e9rez. It makes sense that he\u2019s going to be sitting out for a bit since you wouldn\u2019t want a guy pitching with that ype of injury and hopefully he does heal pretty quickly from this.<\/p>\n

With that being said, it\u2019s pretty exciting to see Owen Murphy getting the call-up and hopefully we\u2019ll see him make a successful debut once he\u2019s called upon. There\u2019s still some questions as to whether or not JR Ritchie is ready but it\u2019s better for him to be getting major league reps so that he can continue to get used to this level of competition so that he can hopefully become a positive contributor to this pitching staff.<\/p>\n

As far as Carlos Carrasco goes, I\u2019m going to add my personal opinion here and say that this should be the last stop on the DFA cycle for Carrasco. I understand that they value his experience and that the team has a pretty decent relationship with him at the moment.<\/p>\n

With that being said, Carrasco\u2019s value as a baseball player comes from his ability to throw multiple innings and it has rarely gone well for him if he goes past an inning of work. Atlanta has plenty of internal options who can serve the same role that Carrasco does and do it better than he can at this point, so hopefully this JR Ritchie can stick around so that the temptation to bring Carrasco back doesn\u2019t creep up.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just speculation on my part and we very well could see Carrasco back in action in the near future. For now, the Braves are turning towards their farm system for help and hopefully both Murphy and Ritchie can find a way to stick around for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday night, we reported that Owen Murphy would be the next big prospect call-up for the Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,7951,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":["post-744761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta-braves-news","tag-atlanta-braves-roster","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116874070135925436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744761","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=744761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}