The Braves are down yet another starting pitcher.
Wednesday’s sobering news that Spencer Schwellenbach had found a fracture in his throwing elbow, an injury labeled of the “freak” variety by the 25-year-old right-hander, was another major blow to a pitching rotation that had a chance to be one of the better ones in baseball.
But now with Schwellenbach joining Chris Sale and AJ Smith-Shawver on the injured list, and with Reynaldo Lopez having been on the shelf for the majority of the season already, the Braves will be forced to find more starting pitching answers moving forward than they would have hoped when 2025 began.