Now becoming the standard for the Atlanta Braves, they have lost their third pitcher this offseason to surgery. Corey Gearrin's elbow injury includes "ligament involvement". He will go see Dr. James Andrews next week for a second opinion.
Minor league reliever Ryan Buchter (Triple-A Gwinnett) to fill Gearrin's spot in the bullpen roster.
"We've kind of eaten through our depth," Braves general manager Frank Wren said. "It looked like we were in pretty good shape coming into spring training with some guys about to get healthy and all of a sudden the next thing you know we're pretty thin. We still have three more guys we're hoping get activated in the next three to four weeks to get back to full strength."
The front office of the Braves tried to go after pitchers they thought would 'upgrade' the team's pitching staff, but couldn't find an actual upgrade until current pitchers began to get injured.
"We have been watching very closely other moves to see if there was someone who could upgrade us or someone who could help us," Wren said. "And we haven't seen anyone we felt were better than the pitchers we have."
Gearrin says that he knew that 'something' wasn't right' before he was taken out of Tuesday's game.
"It was just kind of tender a little bit, didn't really feel right," Gearrin said. "The last two I threw, I definitely knew something felt a little tender or whatever. At this point in camp I didn't really want to go out there and try to pitch through anything like that."
While pitching for the Braves last year, Gearrin posted 68 strikeouts, two wins and one save with a 3.77 ERA and 1.48 WHIP.
Hopefully the Braves won't have to deal with to many injuries in the future of this current season, but they're prepared just in case.
"When I look around baseball there's a lot of us like this," Wren said. "It's just one of those springs and there's not a lot you can do about it."
Minor league reliever Ryan Buchter (Triple-A Gwinnett) to fill Gearrin's spot in the bullpen roster.
"We've kind of eaten through our depth," Braves general manager Frank Wren said. "It looked like we were in pretty good shape coming into spring training with some guys about to get healthy and all of a sudden the next thing you know we're pretty thin. We still have three more guys we're hoping get activated in the next three to four weeks to get back to full strength."
The front office of the Braves tried to go after pitchers they thought would 'upgrade' the team's pitching staff, but couldn't find an actual upgrade until current pitchers began to get injured.
"We have been watching very closely other moves to see if there was someone who could upgrade us or someone who could help us," Wren said. "And we haven't seen anyone we felt were better than the pitchers we have."
Gearrin says that he knew that 'something' wasn't right' before he was taken out of Tuesday's game.
"It was just kind of tender a little bit, didn't really feel right," Gearrin said. "The last two I threw, I definitely knew something felt a little tender or whatever. At this point in camp I didn't really want to go out there and try to pitch through anything like that."
While pitching for the Braves last year, Gearrin posted 68 strikeouts, two wins and one save with a 3.77 ERA and 1.48 WHIP.
Hopefully the Braves won't have to deal with to many injuries in the future of this current season, but they're prepared just in case.
"When I look around baseball there's a lot of us like this," Wren said. "It's just one of those springs and there's not a lot you can do about it."