The Braves have released Shane Greene, per Gabe Burns of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Greene had been designated for assignment by the club earlier in the week.
The 32-year-old never really got on track this year. Despite putting up excellent numbers over 2019 and 2020, he didn’t sign with Atlanta until May, having already missed spring training and part of the regular season. He worked out in Triple-A to get himself into game shape, dealt with some back soreness and eventually got to the big league club in early June. However, the righty hasn’t been able to help the Braves much, throwing 17 innings with an ERA of 8.47, FIP of 6.77 and xFIP of 5.66. His strikeout rate of 20.5% and walk rate of 10.8% are both worse than league average.
He will now be free to sign with any team that believes he’s capable of regaining his past form. After all, he’s not far removed from a 2020 season where he threw 27 2/3 innings with an ERA of 2.60. Any club who signs him would be taking on no financial risk, as they’d only have to pay him the prorated league minimum, with Atlanta on the hook for the remainder of his prorated $1.5MM contract.
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I was thinking the same thing… we should grab Aaron Sanchez too who was just released…
since Stupid Sandy/Scotty didn’t do anything for their pitching besides Rich Hill (and I guess after last night, Trevor Williams), like they SHOULD HAVE, moves like this need to be made. Ya know, the ONE MAN’S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE moves…?
smh…
Sanchez is far from who he once was. He isnt throwing mid 90s anymore. Now it’s mid 80s. If you want him, you can have him. But hes done
Gotta feel he did so poorly this season because of a STICKY situation? His stuff was so sharp, now it’s mostly flat and it sits?
That doesn’t explain how he immediately stunk in Atlanta when he first got there.
Well when he came over from Detroit about the same time as Melancon came in. He just got out played a little and beat out for the closer role. He himself looks the same but his stuff isn’t. He was still a filthy 8th inning guy for a season.
Didnt he get signed by Atlanta after MLB announced they were gonna crack down heavy on pitchers. Hes trying without and nothing has any bite? I dont claim that he was using stuff to help but the timing of it would be poor if not. Do other teams know that he wets his fingers that’s why nobody called him. He doesn’t appear injured.
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Because he did his ‘spring training’ on an MLB mound.
One of the worst signings in MLB history. That money could have gone toward an epic man cave.
Literally every MLB team has at least 1 contract far worse than having Greene for 1 yr/$1.5 mil
I might be wrong but judging by the second sentence, I think 48 was joking.
Daylight savings is over soon. Good reminder to check the batteries in your sarcasm detector.
Maybe he will go golfing on the Green
Can’t blame the dude completely. No Spring Training and they rushed him to the Show because the pen was awful. Not saying he will resort back to the Allstar form of 2018 but not being able to prepare has to be considered.
I wouldn’t really say he was rushed.
Also, if I’m Greene, I’m going through ST routine on my own in hopes of catching on.
He wasn’t rushed at all.
Detroit will sign him
That trade sure didn’t work out for Detroit. Wentz is a tire fire and Demerrite is back with the Barves.
That sucks. He wasn’t good. Braves just got better.
Heh..and the Mets will be worse when Lindor returns! =))
Greene was just a little bit off. Every time he seemed like he was back, he would throw a BP ball or miss a corner by a couple of inches.
I think he could be a good pick up for a team that needs pitching relief, but is not in a playoff race. Like the Angels.
or the Reds
Reds are in race and they are gonna pass SD
Greene is a great reliever that was rushed due to signing late. If im the Mets I would sign him in an instant
And you would lose money like the Braves did. He was given around 40 days to get ready. Greene really is not a fit in the National League, he’s a AL pitcher.
Lol how is someone an “AL” pitcher vs and NL pitcher haha? NL doesn’t have the DH, so one could assume it’s (slightly)easier to pitch in NL vs AL
If you can’t pitch in the NL, you can’t pitch in the AL either
I’m sure that somehow made sense in your head.
Farhan special?
My thoughts exactly.
It’s not easy being Greene.
Yeah something ain’t right with his arm, Greene was a really good bullpen arm in ‘19 and ‘20 yet couldn’t get a job until after the season started? And then saw drastic change in numbers throughout the season. It’s either that or foreign substance crackdown scared him
Remember how Braves fans clamored for his signing?
He was decent in 19 but his velocity declined the last 2 yrs and he enjoys hanging his breaking pitches more than most. The writing was on the wall that this was coming. That’s why I never understood why Braves fans wanted him back so badly.
Padres, Padres, Padres… If Satchel Paige was alive, they’d sign him too!
For all the people saying Greene was bad, you definitely have to take into account his season starting in June, that means he missed so much prep work. His spring training has been on the diamond at MLB level, plus looking at his situation his first game back was a 1/3 of an inning and he gave up 2 runs, this shot his ERA to 54.00 straight away, then on Jun 16 he had 2/3 of an inning and gave up 3, then he didn’t pitch for 5 days, do you think that was good for him to get his mechanics in shape, on 21 Jun then he pitched another 2/3 of an inning and gave up 3 again, on July 4 he gave up 3 again, and then on July 21 he gave up 2. All of the damage has mainly come in 5 games out of the very low 19 games he’s participated in. He has some great pitches in his arsenal, with more work and getting in the groove he can be very good. Most people here didn’t want Luke Jackson either, he certainly has left mud on many commenters faces as he has pitched magnificently this year.
If the Braves had Rodriguez earlier I believe the Braves would have won many more of the close games including the appalling lottery that is extra innings that should not be played at this level with a free runner on 2nd-a farce.
Will Smith is good, but he always gives me high blood pressure. We’d be in the lead now if Smith hadn’t given up a fat fast ball in the middle of the plate to that catcher hitting .086 a few days back, why they threw him a fast ball first pitch I’ll never know, that’s just poor calling and asking to be hit over the fence.
Sorry don’t trust Luke Jackson…Any day now he will revert back to the real Luke Jackson we all know.
This has Angels written all over it.