{"id":129298,"date":"2025-12-08T01:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=129298"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:15:36","slug":"grant-holmes-now-treated-as-healthy-by-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=129298","title":{"rendered":"Grant Holmes now treated as \u201chealthy\u201d by Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Ahead of the 2025 Winter Meetings, Alex Anthopoulos spoke with the media and provided a positive update on Atlanta Braves pitcher Grant Holmes. Anthopoulos told reporters, including David O\u2019Brien of the Athletic, that the organization is treating Holmes as a healthy pitcher after his 2025 season was cut-short due to an elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Holmes opted to not have surgery for his injury \u2013 which would have likely meant he would have missed most, if not all, of the 2026 season \u2013 hoping that rest and rehab would resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The news isn\u2019t as good for reliever Joe Jimen\u00e9z, who had another procedure on the same knee that he had surgery on prior to the 2025 campaign. Jimen\u00e9z was not able to return to the Braves last season. A healthy season in 2026 \u2013 and one that would see him return to the form he\u2019s shown with Atlanta \u2013 would be a huge boon to the team\u2019s bullpen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As for Holmes, he became a solid member of the rotation in 2025. He made his big league debut as a long-man and spot-starter in 2024. Holmes made 21 starts last season, striking out 123 in 115 innings. If healthy, he could fill a role on the back-end of the team\u2019s rotation or possibly as a high-leverage reliever in the team\u2019s re-vamped bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta provided good news on one pitcher but not-so-good news on another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":129299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[738,71,2113,555],"class_list":["post-129298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-alex-anthopoulos","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-david-obrien","tag-grant-holmes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grant Holmes now treated as \u201chealthy\u201d by Braves - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=129298\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grant Holmes now treated as \u201chealthy\u201d by Braves - 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