It was a big day for the Atlanta Braves on Monday, which began with Spencer Strider toeing the rubber for the first time since undergoing internal brace surgery last April.
The Braves lost their top two-set up men from a year ago. A.J. Minter signed with the Mets in free agency and Joe Jimenez is expected to miss most of the season following offseason knee surgery.
The Braves are in full swing when it comes to Spring Training. The Braves have two Spring Training games in the books, and Sunday’s game against the Rays featured one of the more intriguing storylines to follow over the next several weeks in the performance of Ian Anderson.
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The Atlanta Braves find themselves in a bind for the bullpen. They’re down a righty with Joe Jimenez missing time due to surgery and a lefty with AJ Minter reportedly heading to the New York Mets. They have signed a number of pitchers to minor league deals this offseason but haven’t made that impact signing yet.
With Joe Jimenez potentially out for the entire season, many believe the Braves will make a notable splash for a reliever. According to the New York Post’s Jon Heyman via Stripers Report, the club is showing interest in right-hander Carlos Estevez.
Jimenez had one of those crazy-good reliever seasons in 2024. 2024 wasn’t great for most guys to don a Braves uniform, but that definitely did not apply to Joe Jimenez, who sparkled in the first year of his three-year deal with the Braves, smashing his prior career best in fWAR and putting a pretty generic 2023 behind him.
Despite a recent run of success, the Rays are always looking to trim payroll in exchange for prospects, as they are some of the best at scouting and developing talent, particularly pitchers.
With A.J. Minter entering free agency and Joe Jimenez out for at least half of the 2025 campaign, potentially the entire season, the Braves need to bolster the bullpen.
One of the biggest developments for the Braves in the early part of the offseason has been the injury to Joe Jimenez, which is fitting considering how the season panned out this year.
Travis d’Arnaud had been a critical piece of the Braves since joining in 2020, including catching every single postseason game en route to the World Series in 2021.
The Braves are going to have to bolster the bullpen with A.J. Minter potentially leaving in free agency and Joe Jimenez out for a significant portion of the 2025 season, potentially even all of it.
Coming into the offseason, the Braves didn’t have too many glaring needs. That’s changed exponentially over the last couple of days with Joe Jimenez undergoing knee surgery and the confirmation from Alex Anthopoulos that neither Spencer Strider nor Ronald Acuña Jr.
Monday was a bit busier than expected. Monday was always expected to be quite busy for Atlanta, with some pretty obvious decisions to be made on the status of certain Braves for 2025.
Braves right-hander Joe Jimenez underwent a left knee surgery last week to fix cartilage damage, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Justin Toscano reports (X link). The procedure comes with a recovery period of 8-12 months, so Jimenez is now in danger of missing the entire 2025 season.
It hasn't been an easy season for the Atlanta Braves, but they may have scored their biggest win of the 2024 season on Tuesday.
A homer from Marcell Ozuna tied it in the eighth, but Joe Jimenez let things get away shortly after. In what became a highly entertaining back-and-forth affair on Wednesday night, things unraveled in the 8th for reliever Joe Jimenez as the Diamondbacks pulled away from the Braves, 7-5.
Earlier this week, I talked about Justyn-Henry Malloy — who used to be a top prospect in the Braves organization but was flipped in a trade for Joe Jimenez — getting called up to make his MLB debut for the Detroit Tigers.
When the Braves traded for Joe Jimenez a couple of offseasons ago, it wasn’t a deal I was particularly fond of because of who went back to Detroit in return, outfielder Justyn-Henry Malloy.
The Atlanta Braves have had some great pitchers over the past 30 years. But the one thing those pitchers have not done during that stretch is throw a no-hitter.
The Braves traded a slew of top prospects a couple of offseasons ago. The blockbuster deal brought All-Star catcher Sean Murphy to Atlanta, but the Braves also dealt arguably the best prospect in their entire system for relief pitcher Joe Jimenez.
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Alex Anthopoulos is one of the best general managers in all of sports, not just the game of baseball. But even he doesn't have a perfect track record.
While oddly used from a leverage standpoint, Jimenez put together a solid 2023 that earned him a nice payday after the campaign One of the strengths of the 2023 Braves was the quality and depth of their bullpen.
With the World Series coming to a conclusion on Wednesday night, the baseball world will shift its entire focus to the offseason.
With their high-spending rivals sitting atop the division standings, the Washington Nationals are once again facing an offseason of adding supplemental pieces rather than pursuing franchise-altering stars.
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