The Atlanta Braves have finally and officially released their Opening Day Roster for the upcoming season, which is set to start in just a few hours\u2019 time. If you\u2019ve been paying attention (or you were at least on this particular website earlier today when we dropped our annual yearbook-style Opening Day roster post), there should be very few surprises on this list.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the post from the Braves themselves:<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the roster in text form, as taken from the press release that the Braves themselves just dropped:<\/p>\n
\n26-Man Roster<\/strong><\/p>\n
PITCHERS (13):<\/strong> LH Aaron Bummer, RH Enyel De Los Santos, RH Daysbel Hern\u00e1ndez, RH Grant Holmes, RH Raisel Iglesias, RH Pierce Johnson, LH Dylan Lee, RH Reynaldo L\u00f3pez, RH H\u00e9ctor Neris, LH Chris Sale, RH Spencer Schwellenbach, RH AJ Smith-Shawver, LH Jos\u00e9 Suarez<\/p>\n
CATCHERS (2):<\/strong> Drake Baldwin, Chadwick Tromp<\/p>\n
INFIELDERS<\/strong> (5)<\/strong>: Ozzie Albies, Nick Allen, Orlando Arcia, Matt Olson, Austin Riley<\/p>\n
OUTFIELDERS (5):<\/strong> Bryan De La Cruz, Michael Harris II, Jarred Kelenic, Jurickson Profar, Eli White<\/p>\n
DESIGNATED HITTER (1):<\/strong> Marcell Ozuna<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
There are only 13 players here on Opening Day for the Braves who were there back on Opening Day 2024, with six of these players (Drake Baldwin, Grant Holmes, Daysbel Hern\u00e1ndez, Spencer Schwellenbach, AJ Smith-Shawver and Chadwick Tromp) making an Opening Day roster for the very first time in their career. It\u2019s also very interesting that three of those players figure to be in the rotation for the upcoming season as well, which tells you how much trust they are putting in these relatively new faces to come up big for them to start the season.<\/p>\n
These are the 26 players who the Atlanta Braves are going to be rocking and rolling with to start the season. Now all attention can go from the roster to the field as the Braves get set to square off with the Padres to get this thing going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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