As Ha-Seong Kim has been perhaps the worst player to play as much as he has in baseball this season, Walt Weiss made a number of changes including Matt Olson playing right field to avoid Kim hitting in the eighth. Kim’s performance and Weiss’ clear lack of faith in the Korean makes it fair to wonder if he will make it all season on the roster the way things are going, much less receiving regular playing time. He has been a catastrophe at the plate and not much better in the field. While I do think it remains a worthwhile contract to hand out in the offseason, it has gone about as poorly as possible, starting with his offseason injury.
Braves News
Atlanta is expecting to miss Ronald Acuna for a while, as they will slow-play his return from his second injury to the same hamstring this season.
The Braves transferred Spencer Strider to the 60-day IL in a flurry of mid-day transactions.
The Braves’ losing skid continued with a loss in the afternoon and a loss at night, each featuring sub-par pitching and less-than-sparkling offense.
MLB News
The Phillies optioned top prospect Andrew Painter back to triple-A, as he has been quite poor in his 65.0 major league innings this year.
The Guardians put promising rookie Chase DeLauter on the IL with a fractured rib, calling up former top draft prospect Kahlil Watson to make his MLB debut.
Tigers’ Gleyber Torres is hitting the IL with an oblique strain that appears to be a reoccurrence of an injury he suffered earlier this season.
