Atlanta Braves Gohara – Allard may relieve

The rehab continues

Gohara’s struggled so far during his rehab the Stipers. n his three starts he’s throw just 12 1/3 innings, posted an 8.03 ERA, 8.83 FIP and allowed five home runs.

Those issues didn’t deter Alex Anthopoulos from foreshadowing Gohara’s arrival in an interview with Knox Bardeen on 929 “The Game” this morning.

"We’ve got Luiz Gohara who was great for us last year in September. . .His stuff from the left side is great. We could have him coming out of the bullpen."

This afternoon is looks like that might happen sooner than later.

Allard on the way soon?

Gohara may not be the only highly ranked prospect we see work from the pen. He told Bardeen, “. . .Kolby Allard, he’s getting ready and he’s close too. He’s certainly a phone call away from being a call-up.”

Just how that will work isn’t certain however. Anibal Sanchez will be back soon and currently the Braves are saying that Mike Soroka will stay in the rotation with Sanchez filling the long man role.

While AA reminds us that teams once used the bullpen to introduce starters to the majors, it also serves another purpose.  Purely my speculation of course, but moving prospects through STP shows they’re ready for the majors and puts them on display to potential trade partners.

The Braves must spend valuable currency to fill vacancies eventually and that time is nearly upon us.. Whether that happens at the deadline if a wild card or division title looks possible or this winter it’s impossible to say now. The only sure thing is that it will happen.

That’s a Wrap

Nothing’s official yet but Gohara’s healthy and the Braves scratched him for a reason, I expect an official announcement tomorrow if he isn’t used in relief tonight.

The Allard news is earlier than I expected but it makes sense to give them a taste rather than recycling veterans who fail.

The folks over at Talking Chop noted that AA chatted with A-List members this weekend where he said that the Braves would spend money this winter but weren’t going to spend like the Yankees.

Their headline was a hook about Craig Kimbrel but that’s unlikely in my view when we have arms developing that could fill the role. There are interesting tidbits in their brief post, reading it take two minutes I suggest you do that.

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Enjoy the night off, we rejoin battle tomorrow night in the warehouse the Rays call home when Sean Newcomb tangles with the Rays best arm Blake Snell.