The Braves placed left-hander Max Fried on the seven-day injured list for concussion-related injuries. Righty Jay Jackson was called up from Triple-A to take Fried’s spot on the active roster.
Fried’s placement is backdated to August 8, two days after the southpaw took an awkward fall while attempting a fielding play in Atlanta’s 6-2 loss to the Mets. Fried was holding his head in the aftermath of the play but remained in the game and tossed three more innings.
After a few days of further evaluation, it appears as though the Braves have decided that Fried needs some more time to recover. He’ll miss his next start but hopefully no more, though it is hard to predict when concussion symptoms could fully dissipate.
Fried is in the midst of another excellent season, with a 2.60 ERA/3.36 SIERA over 22 starts and 138 1/3 innings. Despite a middling strikeout rate, Fried has been excellent at inducing grounders (50.5% groundball rate) and soft contact, and his 4.5% walk rate is among the best in the game. The 28-year-old has emerged as a front-of-the-rotation ace, and his health is key to Atlanta’s chance of repeating as World Series champions.
Since today is an off-day for the Braves, the team has a bit of flexibility in aligning its rotation in Fried’s absence. The left-hander was scheduled to start against the Marlins on Friday, but Atlanta could simply bump the other starters up one day and hope that Fried is able to return before his next turn in the rotation. The recently-optioned Ian Anderson is likely the first choice for a spot start should Fried have to miss more time.
He’s toast
Or….maybe he’s a bagel?
This comment is toast
Jay Jackson? How about giving Kyle Muller another shot?
Think Muller’s having trouble adjusting to pitching w/the splint on his right hand. Tough timing for him to get injured on that bp comebacker. He probably would have been next up after Anderson was sent down.
The broken hand first and foremost but even beyond that I’m pretty sure he’s getting the Kyle Wright treatment and they’re trying to leave him alone so he can get comfortable and grow as a pitcher.
@soco. I remember when the Mets and Yankees played in the World Series in 2000 and got soundly spanked by the Yankees.
I agree Fried should’ve been pulled ASAP. It’s unbelievable that so called baseball fans on here (granted it’s only a few) enjoy making fun of legit injuries.
I mean, his non-athletic attempt at an acrobatic play was hilarious. That he got a little boo boo is unfortunate, but these guys are professional athletes and take risks every day. Sorry you’re unable to handle that but you’re free not to read or respond to comments you don’t like. Have a nice day!
Snickers left Fried in because he was desperate to beat the Mets and not have his ace get whooped (again) by the surging Mets. No regard for player safety by the Braves staff = they deserve what’s coming to them.
Strider is better anyway – “I’m coping”
Strider is just lucky.
Funny, a Mets fan talking about luck
Funny a Braves fan talking about luck when their ring last season was all luck LOL
I’d take lucky WS bling over a lucky 2022 division title…but that is just me.
Lucky division title? You dropped out of school when? Lmfao this dude just loves to embarrass himself multiple times daily it seems. We have the 2nd best record in baseball and you have a losing record against winning teams but are in line to make the playoffs still. So no need to argue who’s luckier and that’s the Braves by far. But hey keep making your team look even worse by vomiting on the post like you always do.
Jeez, I love how easily offended these random Mets get. Call it what you want.- you are celebrating a division title the Mets have yet to win. No one is denying how **** the Braves and Phillies have played against the Mets. The Mets dominance over the East this season however is not sustainable long term. It may be too late this year, but it will these teams will not gift the Mets the division next season.
@Crazies in Camden
‘Baseball fans’ that ‘think’ you win a World Series by “ALL LUCK” truly just don’t have a clue about baseball whatsoever. Because of course you just go through the Houston Astros & LA Dodgers by beating them with ALL LUCK, and the Houston Astros and LA Dodgers had NO LUCK, of course every other team that was in the post season was ALL SKILL, and Soler hitting a home run out of the park was ALL LUCK, and it was ALL LUCK, Matzek striking out the side with runners on against the LA Dodgers.
Clueless fan. “LOL”….
@Crazies in Camden
I’d say you don’t have a clue, the NL East with Mets Braves Phillies is close to the strongest division in baseball, and just to demonstrate what nonsense you’re writing here, Based on wins the Braves would be 2nd in the AL East, winning the AL Central, 2nd in the AL West, leading the NL Central, and 2nd in the NL West.
This guy talking about luck and losing records against teams over .500, laughable, so going by your ridiculous analogy,
San Diego Padres 20-27. against teams >.500, all luck if they make the play offs.
St Louis Cardinals leading their division, 22-27 against teams >.500, all luck if they make the play offs.
Philadelphia 27-29 against teams >.500, all luck if they make the play offs.
Seattle 31-32 against teams >.500, all luck if they make the play offs.
Minnesota 30-35 against teams >.500, all luck if they make the play offs.
Toronto 29-38 against teams >.500, all luck if they make the play offs.
Tampa Bay 30-35 against teams >.500, all luck if they make the play offs.
But, but but…
You just have no clue-period.
Mets needed the most notorious error in baseball history to win their last WS in 1986. Talk about luck lol.
How about winning a ring, sometime, ever, before dragging someone else’s as lucky. And keep dreaming if you think you’re getting one this year. Dodgers braves nlcs, yanks Dodgers ws, yanks win, Mets are nobody again.
Look at all these crying Braves fans lmfao!!! I hit a nerve and I love it…. keep crying please just keep the tears rolling lol!!!
I have no clue? Or I hurt your feelings so bad you had to write books in response? Yea last yr was all luck for the braves homie and that ain’t changing no matter how many books you write me. And you prob think I took the time to read it LOL!!!!! Sorry bruh I don’t waste my time on fantasy novels.. but when your team is embarrassing like yours I can see where you would have the time to lol
Our team is better top to bottom. Funny you think you gifting anything lol. You gift me with your tears on here though so thanks I appreciate it!! Braves fans as mad as yankee fans now that mets got more money than both combined lol!!! Get used to the basement you’ve been put right where you belong.
My birth was a miracle just like the other WS win for the Mets in 69. You all need a miracle and Buckner to win lol
The game was tied when it got through Buckner, after Kevin Mitchell scored on a Bob Stanley wild pitch.
@crazies in Camden
Your #1 guy is starting to experience the perennial injury bug and your #2 couldn’t pitch effectively in the playoffs last year.
While you’re dreaming about your team getting to the playoffs, we’re the reigning Champs.
Strider leg day aka Resign Dansby. Talked a bunch of crap last weekend lost 4/5 games to the Mets and had to change your name lololol
Lol my point is that luck is literally a part of baseball… saying Strider is lucky doesn’t mean his stuff isn’t nasty. Saying the Mets are lucky doesn’t mean they’re a bad team. My comment was to point out the inconsistency of Mets698632’s argument
Lmao how sad it must be that Met’s fans still feel the need to come defend their place.. Insecure much skippy?
Listen, Mookie would off beaten the play at first base, since Buckner was crippled and was unable to run to the bag! Everyone knew that except the skipper who was high on stupidity that night!
@SocoComfort:
Perhaps you don’t actually know this, but the game was already tied when Buckner’s error occurred. Also, it was only Game 6. They still had to win Game 7.
Hilarious that Braves fans are this obsessed, though. Five championships in 147 years and you act like they’re any better than the Mets. How’s 7 games back treating you?
well done, sir! lol
What a depressing, embarrassing comment section
Fits right in with both Atlanta and the Braves as well
This is such a wonderful resource, this site, but my god are the comments ever terrible.
I gave up using the app because you couldn’t block anyone. Now that I use the mobile site, I block the knuckleheads that don’t talk ball (or are just plain whackados) and the experience is 50x better.
I said this the other day. The amount of mentally ill people on this site is bizarre. .
Good to see it wasn’t from a liner at least. Always scary to see a pitcher placed on the concussion IL without knowing the context.
It would concern me that it occurred more …innocuously? Those seem to have a tendency to recur
I’m no doctor so my 2 cents here is probably more like a small fraction of a cent, but my thought here is it seems the concussion probably wasn’t noted until a day + after it happened, or it took more tests to determine it, which hopefully means it’s a more minor one. Again, just speculation, but that’s what it seems like from my perspective.
It also could be the sort of concussion that became apparent when the team flew to Boston.
High altitude jet flights are a bad idea for people suffering from concussions. When Ryan Church played for the Mets, they put him on a team flight to Colorado two days after he suffered a bad concussion. He was never the same player after that. But screwing up one ballplayer wasn’t enough for the Mets. After Jason Bay suffered a concussion, they did the same thing with him.
He tripped him self fielding a ball and bonked his head on the grass. It wasn’t terrible, he stayed in the game and pitched a couple more innings after.
Gwynning LOL talk about sad franchises like the braves and Yankees, the Padres take the Cake I think. Loveable lovers though
Second vid in this article
mlb.com/news/braves-drop-doubleheader-to-mets-fall…
Braves lining him up to face the Mets… that’s all this is.
I guess that’s wise. The division will be pretty much over after that series.
The Mets don’t need to worry about the Braves to win the division.
They need to worry about the Mets.
They must want him to go 0-3 against the mets? Well then….
Actually looks like he would miss the Mets, injury was on the 6th, 7 day concussion takes him to the 13th, that would put him against the Marlins on the 14th and missing the Mets series.
Of course. Why would they want him to get shelled again…. too many shellings and the lucky excuse gets demolished….
There’s a double header in there. Don’t know if you accounted for that here.
I was impressed he even stayed in the game and still had beast mode on to top it off.
Weird..
Should have been immediately pulled from the game after that fall. It was patently obvious he concussed himself after viewing that slo-mo replay of his skull bouncing off the ground. I don’t know what the MLB concussion protocol is for this situation, but it wasn’t adequate enough. Also not sure the team trainer was the best guy to diagnose it on the field, MLB should consider a concussion specialist or neurologist to be on call to examine players in these situations.
His 2.45 FIP is also EXCELLENT
Fip lol
Unbelievable how people can want or wish harm to another person just because they wear a different jersey than the one they root for. Come on people a concussion is a pretty serious thing. Some have had serious medical issues years later. Grow up and be a adult.
You should be more worried the Braves pitched him three more innings after he got an obvious concussion.
That head to ground contact was the best contact the braves mustered all series long… like a single car wreck almost…. impressive
“Crazies.” Screen name seems appropriate. Other options also come to mind but I’d be banned if I listed them.
That fall summed up the Braves pathetic showing against the Mets brilliantly. Awful plate discipline to strike out 19 times in a single game plus some seriously shameful defense.
Hope Max clears the cobwebs out in time to face the Mets and get his clock cleaned again!
Did he get hit by a comebacker to the head ? (serious question) How does a pitcher have concussion related issues ?
You should find the replay. He fell on his own face/shoulder first into the ground. Give him a 10 for effort!
Definitely won’t be a ballerina anytime soon.
He looked like a crash test dummy lol
Hope he recovers
I never really read the comments. Are you all usually this low quality? Not a good look
Quality is typically only this low on posts that are related to the Mets in some way. Or maybe the Yankees or the Astros.
But even the better ones tend to have too many trolls and juvenile minds to be very edifying.
Anything even tangentially related to the Mets brings out a handful of select trolls (typically Braves fans; weirdly Phillies fans don’t seem to do it) to rip them. There’s a few Mets trolls as well, though I have not seen MetsFan22 in a while.
Yankees, Astros, Dodgers, etc get the same treatment. Red Sox also, but only when they’re good.
This is an article about a Braves pitcher. You show up on every article written about the Braves to bash them and their fans and you’re calling Braves fans out for trolling on this article? Suggest you google “irony.”
The low quality comments on this thread, mainly all from pathetic Mets fans. What a sad society, wishing harm on a baseball player and making fun of misfortune when concussion is no laughing matter, and feeling desperation as the owner of their club shelled out millions, yet they’re talking as if they already won the World Series when that hasn’t even commenced as yet. Pathetic Mets trolls that call themselves baseball ‘fans’.
MLB Team Stats, 2000 – 2022
5 Atlanta Braves Record 1923-1646 Win % 53.9% Made Playoffs 13 Playoff series wins 6 Won World Series 1
14 New York Mets 1783-1788 Win % 49.9% Made Playoffs 4 Playoff series wins 5 Won World Series 000000000000000000
Mets fans talking **** when you’ve made the play offs 4 times in 22 years as opposed to the Braves 13….yes, ‘of course you’re the better club’. It just amazes me, you keep talking about your ‘champion’ club, when the statistics back up nothing of what you assert here. That is such a surprise.
The LA Angels & the Oakland A’s have superior winning records compared to the Mets, let that sink in, the Angels also have a World Series win in that period, the A’s with their small budget also made the playoffs 11 times as opposed to big spending Mets, 4. Keep talking chumps, because you have a long way to fall this year if you don’t win it all.
The cry dog at it again…. when did these Braves fans get so soft?? Wow what a bad few weeks of baseball does to a fan base lol. They went from “we coming for them” to “mommy they aren’t being nice” lmfao what clowns
We are also the better club today, this month, this year. Keep bringing up the years that we’re good for you. Those are all memories. Enjoy them. But right now, in real time, reality, we are in 1st and you guys aren’t even close lol. So enjoy those memories you going to have to cherish those because you won’t be adding any new ones any time soon. Grade A clowns in GA for sure lol
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Careful, Fred. In a way, you’re making his point, too.
Living in this moment is the only way some Mets’ fans can experience success. In the face of historical accuracy over a generational time-frame, what other choice do they have? They certainly don’t know better!
A bit suspicious that “You Can Put It In The Books” and “Crazies in Camden” seem to reply to each other’s comments, personally target other players/commenters, trolling Marlins and Braves fans the most, use political views against others at times when convenient, usually have 4-5 likes on their own comments, and get absolutely livid when the Mets are exposed or talked-down upon yet preach on this pedestal of “snowflakes”, “toughing up”, and “my team is the best and your team sucks haha”.
Somebody else mentioned that is MetsFan22’s alts and it seemed to make sense (in a weird way). They all upvote their own posts and generally bad-mouth the NLE teams and are quick to throw in ad hominem attacks. I blocked them all but I’m sure he’ll just keep popping up new ones.
What an embarrassing thread from top to bottom, just putrid
Might be time for Mlbtr to tighten the leash on obvious trollers,
I can spot a few now who are using multiple Id’s to attack posters from different angels
Threads like this can’t be healthy for this website long term if they persist. I wouldn’t let my kids scroll thru here and that’s a shame b/c the articles have always been top notch
Like my earlier post, change in society. I’ve seen the damage from PTSD and concussions. I spent 21yrs in the Marine Corps and had guys I served with blown out of vehicles, taken shots to the head while training and even worse. Some of those guys were never the same. “Snowflake”? I guarantee myself and other service members that deployed and seen and done things most of you punka** commenters won’t and don’t have the balls to do.
Yeah. Cause being blown out of a vehicle while serving your country and a starting pitcher falling down are the same.
youtu.be/FjGF_XtpP_A
For you snowflake!
I don’t open links from strangers
Keyboard “Warriors” with strong a** thumbs!
Not the same thing. Not even close. Point was and is head injuries are nothing to play with. During training exercises I seen falls turn Damn near fatal over a fall.
So this turned into politics I see. Not even a Biden supporter dude is a joke and pushes blame onto others instead of being the commander in chief. Save the political narrative we are taking baseball.
Oh, so you can put up a political post but nobody else should. What a maroon…
Thank you for your service bravesnation nc. I agree with all your comments in this thread as well.
Great comment App. Spot on!
It’s hilarious.. Mute one troll and the comments section drops by 40 haha
I hope he’s ok. And I hope he doesn’t miss much time. But the Braves better be sure they aren’t putting a guy with a concussion on the mound to face batters. No one needs more players getting hit by pitches, and no one needs a guy getting injured worse because he’s compromised.