Remember when I said earlier today that Drake Baldwin would be joining Hurston Waldrep on their rehab journey, just at different levels? Well, as it turns out, Waldrep will in fact be joining Baldwin at the Triple-A level — just not on rehab.
Just a few minutes ago, the Braves announced that Waldrep had been returned from his rebab assignment, activated from the 60-Day IL and subsequently sent to Triple-A Gwinnett.
So despite the fact that the rehab assignment went pretty well, the Braves have still
decided that Waldrep needs some time to work on things at Triple-A before he eventually gets the big call-up to the bigs to help Atlanta’s pitching staff. To be fair, this was always a possibility dating back to Spring Training when he was considered to have been in for a chance at making the rotation instead of being penciled in as a starter. Now, he can essentially get some of that spring training work in with the Stripers before eventually being called up when needed at some point in the future. Waldrep’s healthy now, though, and that’s the main takeaway from this particular story.
Meanwhile, the Braves said good bye to catcher Maverick Handley and pitcher Jhancarlos Lara as the former was released and the latter was claimed off waivers by the Washington Nationals. We also got an update on Carlos Carrasco’s latest stop on the DFA cycle, as he apparently accepted his outright assignment to Gwinnett as well. So yeah, just be prepared for Carrasco to get called up again in the near future the next time the Braves are in need of someone who can eat up a couple of innings.
