Tuesday's Braves Report (postgame edition): trades, trades, trades; pre-trade guesses; last night's trade; farm system talk
Allard has a nifty debut as Braves roll at home
Kolby Allard may have some time between his major-league debut and his second game, but that first one will be remembered for awhile
Allard left after five innings, nine hits, and five runs, but he helped the offense with a hit and a run as Atlanta cruised to an 11-6 win over Miami.
Rain pushed the first pitch back about 90 minutes, but Allard was unfazed.
He gave up two singles to start, and got out unscathed. He retired the side in order in the second and got out of the third unharmed.
Miami dinged him for two in the fourth, but the Braves more than erased that with five in their half for an 8-2 lead.
He went into the sixth, but was pulled after giving up three singles and two runs. The bullpen of Luke Jackson and Dan Winkler went four innings and allowed only a run. Allard had one strikeout and two walks.
Atlanta won its third straight behind a 4-for-5 night from Ender Inciarte and three-hit nights from Ronald Acuna and Freddie Freeman, and two-hit efforts from Ozzie Albies, Nick Markakis, and Dansby Swanson.
Acuna opened the bottom of the first with his 11th homer of the year. Markakis and Johan Camargo added bombs.
The Braves were 5 for 13 with runners in scoring position, but left nine runners.
Tuesday’s trade update, version 1
Grading the Braves’ on Tuesday
Five teams that won at the deadline
Monday’s trade shuffles things
Column: bat for so-so arms a win
Mid-season farm system rankings update
Next 5
Wednesday, 7:35 p.m., vs. Miami, FSSE
Thursday, 7:10 p.m., at NY Mets, FSSE
Friday, 7:10 p.m., at NY Mets, FSSO
Saturday, 7:10 p.m., at NY Mets, FSSO
Sunday, 1:10 p.m., at NY Mets, FSSO
From beat writers Gabe Burns/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mark Bowman/MLB.com, and David O’Brien/The Athletic on Twitter (and others when notable)
Duvall will only be first-time arbitration eligible this winter, will get exponential raise from his current $645K salary with those two 30-homer, big-RBI seasons including 2017./DOB
Part of move was clearing 40-man jam. Anthopoulos spoke well of Tucker, Wisler, Sims. Tucker will join Reds' major league team, per CIN's Dick Williams, and pitchers probably in Triple-A./GB
Inciarte and Acuna will platoon now in CF, with Acuna moving over from LF to play CF against lefties and Duvall playing LF vs. lefties. Duvall rated above-average defender in LF, so the #Braves might not lose much, if anything, defensively with Acuna in CF, Duval in LF./DOB
Anthopoulos on Inciarte's team-first mindset: "He’s awesome. I can’t say enough about him as a team guy. We take him for granted how good a defender he is, but it’s just a move to make our team better.”/GB
Best response I've received regarding what the Braves might do today: "They are kicking a (expletive) ton of tires, I know that."/MB
Anthopoulos: "We’re always reluctant to move some of our higher-ranked guys. That’s not to say the guys we gave up we didn’t like. We liked them, but to varying degrees...We didn’t go into this Trade Deadline saying we refuse to move any of our top prospects."/MB
Braves miss on Archer, but land controllable starter anyway. Gausman controllable through 2020./GB
Anthopoulos on Archer rumors: "We were on top of it. I think we knew what it was going to take for us to be right in the mix. And ultimately for us that didn’t make sense. That’s not right or wrong for anybody. The Rays are one of the better trade partners to deal w/."/DOB
Braves wanted to add starter, bench and relief help. They did all three without denting their farm system (still waiting on names for KG). I understand it may be underwhelming, but this was a success. Anticipate heavier lifting in winter./GB
The Braves have hit four leadoff homers (Albies 3, Acuna 1). They've never tallied more than seven, a total most recently matched in 2013 (Heyward 3, Simmons 3, Melvin Upton Jr. 1)/MB
Alex A. when asked if #Braves have any untouchables: “I can guarantee you there’s players in the big leagues that we would trade anybody for. I wouldn’t cut my arms off or anything like that when it comes to trading players." A sneaky jab. And yes, there was laughter./DOB