Spencer Strider will be back any day now, and that's cause for excitement.
After missing nearly the entire 2024 season, Atlanta Braves fans will be ecstatic to have one of their aces back in the next week or two. Strider punched out 13 Triple-A batters in just 5 1/3 innings of work earlier this week, so he could be back to dominance in short order.
However, Strider's return is also a simple mathematical equation. Someone in the Braves' rotation will be out of a job, and there are a couple of obvious candidates.
The fifth starter role was a bit of a question mark for the Braves coming into the season, and A.