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Braves Promote Kyle Muller

By Mark Polishuk | June 16, 2021 at 1:15pm CDT

The Braves announced that left-handed pitching prospect Kyle Muller has been called up to the Major League roster.  Muller will take the spot of southpaw Tucker Davidson, who (as expected) was placed on the 10-day injured list due to left forearm inflammation.

Baseball Prospectus gave Muller solid rankings (60th in 2020, 62nd this year) in their last two preseason top-prospect listings, and MLB Pipeline lists Muller as the fifth-best prospect in Atlanta’s farm system.  A second-round pick in the 2016 draft, Muller posted solid numbers in his first four pro seasons and pitched at the Braves’ alternate training site in 2020, though he has hit some bumps in his first stint at Triple-A this year.

Muller has a 4.60 ERA through 31 1/3 frames for Triple-A Gwinnett, with a troublingly large number of homers (six) and walks (19) that undermines his 28.9% strikeout rate.  The home runs are a new issue for Muller, who gave up just 18 home runs total in his first 326 2/3 innings in Atlanta’s organization, though his control problems also began to creep up at Double-A in 2019.  MLB Pipeline’s scouting report cites Muller’s command as his chief issue, though also praises the 23-year-old’s ceiling as a potential four-pitch starter.  He already possesses a 65-grade fastball that sits in the high-90’s and a 55-grade curveball, and Muller has been working on improving his changeup and slider as well.

The Athletic’s David O’Brien (Twitter links) notes that Muller’s last three Triple-A outings have been very strong, which could explain why the Braves turned to Muller over Kyle Wright and Bryse Wilson, who have both have started games for the Braves this season.  Muller is slated for bullpen work for now, O’Brien writes, though it remains to be seen who will start in Davidson’s place on Sunday.

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53 Comments

  1. TradeAcuna

    4 years ago

    When are they going to move Acuna down in the lineup?

    Reply
    • bot

      4 years ago

      Due to lack of performance or it makes more sense to bat him 2/3 for production?

      Reply
      • TradeAcuna

        4 years ago

        Due to the fact he will be better off driving in runs with Freeman and Swanson/Albies in front of him than hitting his usual solo homers with 3 K’s per night. Then again, no one is hitting or making contact consistently, so worth changing things up.

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        • 802Ghost

          4 years ago

          Pretty sure they tried that in 2019 and he didn’t fare as well. He thrives in the leadoff.

          Acuna’s position in the order isn’t the problem w/ the Braves.

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        • TradeAcuna

          4 years ago

          Acuna is a faulty hitter. I guarantee it has nothing to do with him being lower in the order.

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        • isiight

          4 years ago

          A hitter with a 159 ops+ on the season and a career 136 ops+ is a faulty hitter? Some people will never be happy lol

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        • mlb1225

          4 years ago

          He’s only struck out 3 times in a game in 3 games so far this year and has cut down on strikeouts. even then, he has always been able to offset his strikeout rate with good contact and power numbers.

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        • LordD99

          4 years ago

          Ian, it appears you don’t understand baseball.

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        • Appalachian_Outlaw

          4 years ago

          You can’t be serious, Ian. You either are just trolling or don’t know baseball. Acuna Jr. is going to be in the MVP conversation. If that’s faulty, everyone is terrible.

          Reply
    • bot

      4 years ago

      Y’all stop justifying Acuna. He’s arguably the best player in baseball. Ian is just a hater. Anyone who can’t be happy with one of the best players in baseball on their team is a hater. Especially considering that brutal contract he’s under !!!

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      • TradeAcuna

        4 years ago

        actually, his contract is what makes me hopeful. He is not worth any more (in my standards). Use that money and spend elsewhere….which this team is still not doing.

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        • shawn1994

          4 years ago

          Ian you’re a terrible troll. And nobody gives a damn about a trolls standard you stupid idiot.

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        • RamMac14

          4 years ago

          You must be a Mets/Phillies fan. Who in your standards is worth it or is a better pure hitter right now? Acuna ranks up there or near trout, that’s just facts. The team is hurting bc of pitching and no protection for freeman. Last year has shown, put a big bat behind him and this is a totally diff team.

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        • 802Ghost

          4 years ago

          Dude, put down the Budweiser’s.

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        • SalaryCapMyth

          4 years ago

          You have a grudge against him. Nobody but you thinks this of Acuna. You must feel lonely with your insane conspiracy that you can’t justify.

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    • samthebravesfan

      4 years ago

      Why should they? it won’t matter. Bullpen will just cough up those four or five extra runs he generates.

      Reply
  2. BobbyLox69

    4 years ago

    AMDG

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  3. king_tut

    4 years ago

    You linked to the wrong Kyle Muller btw.

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  4. bot

    4 years ago

    Braves system is perfect example why u should always trade all your prospects at peak value. They had the richest farm of a generation while putting a competitive team on the field and sat on all these dudes til it was too late.

    It’s a buyers market. Especially compared to 10 years ago. Trade these guys for controllable pieces that are proven to produce in The Show. Acquiring Bryant was a way better choice than resigning ozuna. Even coming out of last season and before his demise it was the right move. Yet Braves continue to sit on all these guys who will never pan out

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    • 802Ghost

      4 years ago

      Yup. Agreed. Especially ones like Bryce Wilson and Toukki.

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    • TradeAcuna

      4 years ago

      Why win championships when you can hang divisional flags and reassure yourself you have a top MiLB system so you are guaranteed to have a chance to put up more divisional flags? Who needs WS rings anyway?

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      • RunDMC

        4 years ago

        Every other Braves fan has learned to make lemonade, except for you. It’s really just water, ripe lemons and sugar, then let love do the rest. Come here, you need a hug.

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        • TradeAcuna

          4 years ago

          Hope you have enough sugar for the rest of the season to offset the sour taste of this entire season.

          Buy a pound of sugar when AA is fired.

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        • 802Ghost

          4 years ago

          AA is in no danger of being fired. I hate to burst your bubble.

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    • RunDMC

      4 years ago

      While you make some sense, how do you avoid the land-minds of trading some prospects that do pan out and become the foundation of future teams for incredible value? The bright future of this team, in part, was done by avoiding costly trades, but to think that a Bryant trade was imminent just because everyone including media wanted it to happen, doesn’t mean it was ever feasible, let alone, possible. It’s easy to say now that taking on $20MM (Bryant’s 2021 paycheck) plus trading away key components (including most likely Austin Riley-plus pitching), and avoiding an impending Ozuna extension that has almost been nullified by off-the-field behavior was the way to go.

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      • bot

        4 years ago

        For starters – no one bit on ozuna. He was out there forever for peanuts yet no one made an offer until Braves came in at the end – that says a lot ! He shoulda got a Donaldson type contract or more.

        Secondly, it’s the Braves strategy to not pay position players. They went against their team motto to sign ozuna Bc they were too prospect tight. Even after so many failures – they can’t own their mistakes.

        And w riley – there’s no guarantee cubs wanted him. It would have cost a fortune no doubt – but if Braves were believers in riley – he didn’t have to be centerpiece of that trade. Odds are cubs would have bit on Pache. Pache mueller and a lotto ticket and u got riley at 3rd and Bryant in corner outfield

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        • AlbiestheRacistDragon

          4 years ago

          That’s not true about Ozuna, he was sitting on an offer from the rays I believe when the braves came in at the end.

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        • bot

          4 years ago

          A rays offer ? So you are saying rays were offering 60+ million to ozuna last offseason ?? Lol. Not a chance

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        • 802Ghost

          4 years ago

          Might not have been $60m, but it could have been similar.

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        • RunDMC

          4 years ago

          I don’t believe for a second “no one else was in on Ozuna” — or AA would have ONLY offered 1 large-AAV year, like he did before. No way AA wanted to go to 4 years, but did in part because of the market. Braves motto not to pay position players….? Where have you heard that?? The whole reason they have been pitching-heavy for so many years of the rebuild is to….not pay premium for pitching – reading the writing in the sand – that top-of-rotation (TOR) pitching would be overpriced. Thus, by growing it on the farm, they could get similar results (in theory) for much, much less than what others are paying for it.

          In your scenario, you’re trading away our Opening Day CF (Pache) after a playoff debut, and presumably giving Inciarte (?) the reins, if not eventually Waters — or trading/signing someone else (Jackie Bradley Jr.) in the offseason. Either way, you’d have another hole to fill trading away a top prospect that we still haven’t fully seen have a shot due to a nagging injury that has plagued so many this year. I don’t buy that Pache, Muller, and a lotto ticket (with ATL paying $20M….?) would have gotten it done, because that would have signaled a rebuild that CHC has not signaled.

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        • bot

          4 years ago

          Braves are still trying to fill that hole and They’d be winning more games w Bryant.

          And Chicago traded darvish, as a reds fan, please send a letter to their GM and tell him they need to be rebuilding. Thx !

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      • 802Ghost

        4 years ago

        I don’t even been Bryant. I think ATL should have traded a few of the SP prospects for top shelf BP arms. Or, converted some of them to BP arms.

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    • TomahawkChop

      4 years ago

      So you trade all your prospects but Liberty Media only allows so much money to be spent. Who is in your farm system and how do you replace the players traded for when they become too expensive? The fact that you think it’s that simple shows you have no clue how things work in the real world of baseball.

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      • bot

        4 years ago

        Are u trying to win the division every year or compete for WS titles ? Titles cost and it’s either prospect value or dollars so if ownership is too cheap to max payroll – then it comes in prospects. Or your goal is to win the NL East.

        And Every year there is a slew of quality players that can be had on one year deals. Those players cost WAY less than drafting a guy in the first round, paying his bonus, and paying to developing him. Yet most first rounders never pan out.

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        • 48-team MLB

          4 years ago

          I agree. The goal should be to win it all. If you told me that the Braves would win three World Series in the next decade (against Houston, Chicago and New York for example…since they all seem to be in contention) then I could live with a mediocre decade after that. Winning a bunch of division titles with nothing to show for it is not going to satisfy me.

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        • bhambrave

          4 years ago

          @Bot

          The Rays seem to be doing pretty well by following a strategy that is the complete opposite of what you’re suggesting.

          What it comes down to is, no one knows which prospects are going to hit, no one knows which FA’s are going to pay off, no one knows who’s going to get injured and no one knows which trade targets are worth the prospects required to get them. You seem to think you have it all figured out, and winning a world championship is easy.

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        • bravesfan88

          4 years ago

          The goal is to create a SUSTAINABLE product, and take calculated shots at championships..You cannot do that by trading away all your prospects.

          Yes, maybe they held on to too many guys, but they also made some smart moves by not making huge deals in holding onto Acuna, Albies, Soroka, Fried, etc.

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        • RunDMC

          4 years ago

          Not to mention LAD, whom AA graduated from under Friedman. LAD’s obvious major difference is their ability to use those key farm pieces to make major trades (i.e. Betts) then lock them up — as well as taking on dead-money other teams can’t afford. They pay well, but they definitely are creative in their spending, supplanting their impressive farm and ability to turn chicken s— into chicken salad on the waiver wire.

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        • bot

          4 years ago

          Tampa’s roster is littered with former top prospects. Yet outside of the 2 they stole from Pittsburg- none of them are top performers on their team.

          Here’s a quick list of guys who atleast broke top 50 –
          McKay
          Honeywell
          Patino
          Mejia

          What rays are fantastic at is identifying talent other teams are over trying to produce. Then helping that player make small adjustments and finally putting them in a position to succeed.

          There success in majors has little and less to do w their farm being ranked 1

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    • DarkSide830

      4 years ago

      just like how Trout, Betts, deGrom, Soto, and Acuna should have been dealt as prospects…wait.

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      • bot

        4 years ago

        When was, or in Acuna case, is peak value ?

        For many it’s their first 3 years of arbitration and for Acuna is the length of the whole contract he’s under.

        So if your prospect dominates minors a la trout than his value has not peaked. Why is that hard to understand ?

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    • bravesfan88

      4 years ago

      Yeah, it was really dumb of them not to trade Acuña, Fried, Soroka, and Albies when teams were clamoring for them..

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      • bhambrave

        4 years ago

        And that Freeman kid. They should have traded him a long time ago.

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  5. Golfish48

    4 years ago

    He’s a lefty, he’ll start against the Cardinals.

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  6. BravesSteelersCle

    4 years ago

    If Muller can keep his walk percentage down, he has a chance of doing well. I know that is the case for many guys, but he has some electric stuff and solid movement. Walks for almost the entire staff has been a huge issue. A staff in top 10 in free passes and averaging over 1.5 homeruns per game makes it impossible to go on any kind of winning streak.

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  7. samthebravesfan

    4 years ago

    Whatever.

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    • DarkSide830

      4 years ago

      its a rough year to be a fan of an NL East team.

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  8. Appalachian_Outlaw

    4 years ago

    With the injury rates this year everyone will be up before the end of the season.

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  9. JAMES JACOBSEN

    4 years ago

    Anderson just allowed 4 runs, I dont think ANY of Atlanta’s pitchers are pitching well, Starters or Bullpen. The whole team is in a slump. Ive been watching the Braves for 20+ year and Ive never seen them play this poorly.

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  10. NYCBRAVE

    4 years ago

    Please move Riley up in the order

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  11. russ5tide

    4 years ago

    When every young pitcher I. Your system is having both walk and HR issues it’s way past time to figure out how your teaching them incorrectly and change Philosophies. Maybe they are stuck in teaching pitchers the same thing they did back i. The maddux, smoltz and glacier days I’m not exactly sure. But however the braves minor league coaches are teaching pitchers is majorly flawed. Even Lucas Sims called the braves out when he was traded to the Reds and started learning under new philosophies. It’s time for Atlanta to stop getting in their own way and make some serious changes from top to bottom.

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  12. bravesnation nc

    4 years ago

    You can see and hear the frustration and disappointment in these guys. I said it before you do not detract from your strength. Their bullpen was a strength now its a liability. Guys had established roles and slotted in from day one last year in 21 you get the “Guys have to step up” cliche. Losing your 3,4 hitters in lineup doesn’t help either but this is baseball. NO ONE CARES or Feels Bad for you. Team is a mess and a ton of personal gut checks should be happening. When ever have you seen Freeman so frustrated that he breaks his bat live or snaps in the dugout? They have serious concerns and I hope someone police’s that team.

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  13. bravesfan

    4 years ago

    He wasn’t ready when this call up happened and it proved accurate last night. I have no problem ultimately leaving him in the bullpen and getting old school MLB experience to build his way to a starting position … kinda like what we did with Max Fried. But the only guy who should be starting in the mlb that’s not getting the opportunity still is Wilson. The kid has earned it already at the mlb lvl, he continues to beat up minor league hitters. Braves need to leave him in the pros for an extended period and stop sending him down the min he struggles. It’s ridiculous

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