Jair Jurrjens will be starting in place of injured Brandon Beachy on Friday for Atlanta Braves-MLB
To make up for rough-ups Jair Jurrjens endured at start of the season, Atlanta Braves’ starter has another chance to assert his credentials as a quality hurler. With Brandon Beachy injured due to sore right elbow, Jurrjens will be starting against the Boston
Red Sox on Friday.
Jair, just for the sake of getting his rhythm, will spend one day at Gwinnett and will throw few innings before joining the club on Thursday in Boston.
A pitcher who featured in the last year All-Star Game has been taken with heavy hands this year.
Right from the day one in the season, plenty of runs are being drawn from his pitches. While the Braves hoped that he will continue from the last year dominance and will use his fastballs to draw strike-outs, he has been unable to replicate even a fraction
of the previous year performance.
As he kept leaking runs and costing defeats, the Braves had sent him to Gwinnett so that he can work out his fastballs and achieve some command on them. In his absence, the Braves had to call replacements.
Inability to become the kind of force that Jurrjens was supposed to came with a heavy cost to the club. One will not be wrong if one points out the role of starters in the Braves’ defeats. How pitchers leaked runs and rendered the offence’s effort meaningless
on number of occasions is not hard to discern.
As Jurrjens has come back now after fixing issues with the throws, he will love to re-establish his significance for Braves’ rotation.
Braves’ manager Fredi Gonzalez is confident that the task for which Jurrjens was sent to the Minor League has been accomplished by him. Therefore, he believes that one can brace for his best coming in the upcoming games.
“He came out of the start yesterday with a little bit of stiffness of his back and also give JJ an opportunity to pitch up here,” Gonzalez said. “He’s done everything we’ve asked him to do down in the minor leagues.”
Jurrjens will be aware of the kind of role the club is expecting from him to carry out. He will be looking to live up to it and improve his unimpressive numbers in the season.
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