{"id":922992,"date":"2019-07-24T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=922992"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:19:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:19:48","slug":"tot-braves-pass-on-burdi-get-ynoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tot-braves-pass-on-burdi-get-ynoa\/","title":{"rendered":"TOT – Braves Pass on Burdi, Get Ynoa"},"content":{"rendered":"
Transaction of Today – July 24, 2017…The Atlanta Braves traded Jaime Garcia, Anthony Recker and cash to the Minnesota Twins for Huascar Ynoa.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Atlanta Braves entered 2017 with a bit of hope. They added a trio of veteran arms in Bartolo Colon, the knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, and southpaw Jaime Garcia along with veteran catcher Kurt Suzuki plus swiss army knife Sean Rodriguez to a team that finished 31-25 after the trading deadline the previous season. The hope was that the Braves could be sleepers behind those players, a full season of Matt Kemp, continued improvement from Mike Foltynewicz, and another solid season from 2016 All-Star Julio Teheran.<\/p>\n Narrator: That didn’t happen.<\/em><\/p>\n The veteran-laden staff disappointed with only Dickey lasting the season in Atlanta and pacing the rest of the rotation with a 4.26 ERA. Kemp got off to a good start, but faded as his hamstrings couldn’t survive. Rodriguez was in a preseason car accident, prompting a move for Brandon Phillips. Only Suzuki, signed for a bit of veteran support, had the kind of success former general manager John Coppolella hoped for. An injury to Freddie Freeman didn’t help, costing the Braves their best player for over a month.<\/p>\n The 2017 Braves weren’t a terrible ball club, mind you. They entered the All-Star Break with a 42-44 record, but were 8.5 games back behind the Nationals in the East, another seven games behind the Rockies for the second Wild Card spot, and had a -39 run differential. Certainly, the Braves could have tried to go for it, but they decided to accept reality and sell. However, trades of Rodriguez and Phillips in August netted the Braves very little. Colon had already been released while Kemp and Dickey had little trade value.<\/p>\n But the Braves had a taker for Garcia, the former Cardinals lefty who they traded for the previous winter. Often injured, Garcia finished third in the 2010 Rookie of the Year vote and was one of the Cardinals’ better pitchers when he could stay on the mound long enough. The Braves, who had luck with a former Cardinals’ arm in Shelby Miller two years before, hoped for similar fortune with Garcia.<\/p>\n Garcia started strong, carrying a 3.16 ERA into his 13th start of the season. However, a trio of starts where he allowed six runs each time followed. Another five runs scored off Garcia in his final start before the All-Star Break, pushing his ERA to 4.55 – nearly a run-a-half higher in just four starts.<\/p>\n The Break did him well and he shut the Diamondbacks down with one run allowed in seven innings. Five days later, he made his most memorable start as a Brave at Chavez Revine. He surrendered just three runs to the Dodgers in seven innings and hit a Grand Slam off former Brave Alex Wood in a 12-3 thumping.<\/p>\n