The Braves announced that they’ve designated outfielder Lane Adams for assignment. His spot on the 25-man roster will go to right-hander Matt Wisler, who has been recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett and will start tonight’s game in place of the injured Anibal Sanchez.
Adams, 28, has been a quality reserve outfielder in Atlanta since having his contract selected last season. Originally signed to a minor league deal in the 2016-17 offseason, Adams worked his way onto the big league roster and has since batted .270/.345/.460 in a total of 143 plate appearances. He’s also been a somewhat seldom-used piece, though, having started in just 14 of the 100 games he’s appeared as a Brave. More often than not, Adams has been utilized as a pinch-hitter, pinch-runner or late-game defensive replacement.
The Braves will have a week to either trade Adams or try to sneak him through outright waivers, though because he’s been outrighted previously in his career (by the Yankees in 2016), he’d have the right to reject the assignment in favor of free agency anyhow. With Adams off the roster, the Braves will utilize an outfield mix of Preston Tucker, Ender Inciarte, Nick Markakis and Peter Bourjos for the time being, though obviously the potential promotion of top prospect Ronald Acuna is looming on the horizon.
Ugh… tough move
Why wisler though ?!?
Because Wisler has only given up 3 runs on 6 hits and 1 walk over 12 innings this year with 11 Ks. He’s also on the 40 man roster, Max Fried pitched last night, and Sims hasn’t pitched since the 9th for some reason. Gohara still has a couple rehab starts to make and Soroka isn’t on the 40 man roster yet.
Peanuts or popcorn?
Peanuts if they’re salted
This makes no sense. He’s a great player to have to fill out the roster
I would have rather they’d DFA Bourjas, but his time is probably coming when Acuna is promoted.
This I completely agree with! I like Lane a lot more than Bourjas. Lane is just as fast, better defensively & hits!!
Johnny Superscout to the rescue.
David and RoXGB — it is indeed the same guy. He just changed his name. He was never blocked from commenting before.
But, he is now.
thanks
Thanks. That was getting obnoxious, and hard to ignore even though I know that’s the more correct approach. I appreciate that this is a one-stop shop for all baseball transaction and off-field moves. And you’ve been doing it for this long and it’s free and the site is constantly updated. On a day off it’s nice to always be able to have something new to read. Thanks again.
Thank you
great news!
Can someone fill me in on what happened?
This morning on the thread about Bryan Price getting fired, a commenter by the name of “Ookashfah” complained about how MLBTR posted a thread that wasn’t specifically a trade rumor and when people started telling him that they report on most things baseball related and not just trade rumors, he starts demanding that the site changes their name and then when people started flaming him, he starts busting out the “I’m just expressing my opinion. Stop oppressing me” remarks. It’s possible that he’d done this before because of the immediate hostile reaction from other commenters and the fact that it’s rare to see a guy get banned for only doing something like this once. It took them at least a month to ban Bigpapi4ever who employed a similar style of trolling, for example.
You, I and everyone on this site knows exactly what his real intentions were.
It’s the same guy redrooster
It’s low-key obvious
Misnomer all but admitted to being Ookash above. this is so weird.
Okay thank you!
What does he gain by having all these different accounts? Especially using them at the same time. I don’t get it!
Because he was put in DFA limbo, there’s a chance he can be traded within the next 10 days.
Smh.
This comment was meant for @Misnomer
Would have rather seen them DFA Joe P0opler instead. Lane Adam’s could have been kept around as a bench OF after Acuna is called up.
This might be setting the stage for Acuna.
Dfa a .793 OPS
Doesnt seem that smart.
Guess it was him or Bourjos and they must like Bourjos better. I’m with you, though.
Wouldn’t mind if the Royals picked him up again. Liked him back then as a young backup, he has looked solid and KC seems like a spot where he might have a chance to get some ABs, especially while Gordon is down.
Agree…Lane Adams is better than Paulo Orlando….
A million times yes to this.
Ugh…what is going on here? The Braves are keeping the weaklings (Bourjos and Culberson) but getting rid of a guy who is a solid player, I hope another team picks him up. He deserves better than this….and so do the fans.
Both Bourjos and Culberson are hitting below .15o. What skills does Bourjos have that Adams does’n’t?
Would he be better than Brandon Guyer?
Give Matt wisler a shot to turn it around this season. He’s got to figure it out or it’s hanging of the spikes
Why would he hang up the spike when he could still make 10-20k a month in AAA?
Wisler has one more chance, if he sucks, he gets traded at some point.
Yeah, he was once a top Padres prospect, basically considered a polished guy with a good four-pitch mix who would move quickly, but he’s never really missed bats, even in the minors. He’s 25 now, and probably just a fringe guy. This is probably his last shot at having a real career.
Matt Wisler thanks you for speaking of his imminent retirement. He was a revelation on the mound.
Hello, Lane? This is the Royals calling…