Atlanta Braves News: JR Ritchie called up, Didier Fuentes starts, more

Well it has quickly become prospect week for the Braves’ rotation, as a 1.0 inning Reynaldo Lopez begin on Tuesday in the midst of a stretch of 10 video games straight despatched the Braves’ pitching right into a scramble to cowl innings. An up and down 3.0 inning begin from Didier Fuentes resulted in Thursday’s scheduled starter Martin Perez being burned to cowl one other 3.0 innings. Fuentes was most likely higher than his line would point out, as he obtained a bit unfortunate with some BABIP, whereas placing out 7 batters throughout 3.0 innings and generated 15 whiffs on 74 pitches. That stated, he was not as his finest, notably within the first inning. So that leaves us with JR Ritchie making his MLB debut on Thursday as a consensus prime 100 prospect and prime 2 prospect within the group. Ritchie made an actual push for a rotation spot in Spring Training and has been largely efficient in AAA to this point. Ritchie has a deep pitch combine and will probably be enjoyable to observe on Thursday, as he can hopefully present some depth for a Braves staff that desperately wants it.