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The Atlanta Braves’ starter is being shown as an example of the team’s ability to scout out talent<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Expectations continue to grow for Atlanta Braves sophomore starter Spencer Schwellenbach heading into 2025.<\/p>\n

Baseball America included him on the list of nine breakout pitchers that readers should get to know. Writers Matt Eddy and JJ Cooper were tasked with hyping up the 24-year-old righty.<\/p>\n

Eddy was impressed with how effectively he attacked hitters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were starts where it looked like he could get all 27 outs, and Atlanta may ask more out of him this season after losing veteran starters Max Fried and Charlie Morton,\u201d Eddy wrote. \u201c Schwellenbach is up for the task after brandishing six average-or-better pitches and showing one of the best first-pitch strike and swinging-strike rates among 25-and-under starters in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper noted Schwellenbach as intimate to how the Braves have an eye for scouting talent. He\u2019s also pointed out that while the righty has already proven to be a legitimate piece of the rotation, this is the year he turns up the dial.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtlanta\u2019s ability to keep developing later-round starting pitchers is remarkable,\u201d Cooper wrote. \u201cSchwellenbach has already been quite good, but he\u2019ll show he\u2019s a front-of-the-rotation starter in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n

When looking deeper into Schwellenabach\u2019s stats for 2025, we might already be seeing what is being hyped up to come. He finished the season with an already solid 3.35 ERA, but that inflated by a few starts where he was finding his footing. In his final 15 starts, he had a 2.54 ERA, a 0.95 WHIP and 95 strikeouts across 92 innings.<\/p>\n

It would be a bit to ask for him to go beyond that. However, if he\u2019s able to keep this performance up for 30-plus starts in 2025, that would count for the breakout they\u2019re expecting. That would land him in the All-Star Game and, at the very least, he would receive votes for the Cy Young.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s shown some flashes of greatness during Spring Training. We know these numbers don\u2019t count, but it\u2019s hard to ignore them sometimes. In his most recent Spring Training start, Schwellenbach blanked the New York Yankees over six innings and struck out 10 batters. So far, assuming he isn\u2019t finished yet this Spring, he has a 2.41 ERA and a 0.86 WHIP in 18 2\/3 innings pitched.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not too far off from what he did down the stretch of last season. It can only further feed the hype.<\/p>\n

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