Yeah, occasionally those 4 at-bats can be in high enough leverage to help decide the outcome, but usually not. Great players get 4 at-bats and a handful of defensive plays per game and that’s it. Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani are two of the very best players in the sport who also happen to play on the same team.
Losing your ace to a minor injury is certainly better than losing him to a major injury, and that’s where Braves’ fans are at this point, hoping it’s relatively minor, and this will be nothing more than a small stumble that occurs at they very beginning of a 6-month marathon.īut Fried’s injury also highlights a central theme for the Braves all off-season and likely for the last several off-seasons: do not build a baseball team around one player.īaseball is not basketball where one great player can carry you.
Losing your ace to an injury on Opening Day is not good. Listening to Brian Snitker’s post-game interview, he took the more pragmatic view, stating plainly Fried would miss his next start, and would almost certainly end up on the 15-day Injured List, costing Fried as many as his next three starts, and maybe more. Max Fried discusses his left hamstring injury ⤵️ /yjnIpZTdlM- Bally Sports: Braves March 30, 2023 "I didn't want to come out of that game without at least trying."
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