Braves: Acuña Jr. and Stider will return soon to the game
Ronald Acuña Jr., star gardener of Braves, had batting practice this Thursday; Spencer Stider launched Wednesday
North Port, Fla. – The star gardener of the Atlanta Braves, Ronald Acun .
While it is not expected that Acuña, the most valuable player of the National League of 2023, or Strider, winner of 20 games in that same season, are ready for the Opening Day of Atlanta while recovering from injuries, the manager Brian Snitker He said both are having good progress to be ready earlier this season.
“We will make two really important changes at some time at the beginning of the season and we will recover, you know, to an All-Star and a potential winner of the Cy Young award,” Snitker told MLB Network.
Snitker said both players are in their own programs “because they are still rehabilitation.”
Acuña broke the left anterior cruciate ligament on May 26 and the 27 -year -old hitter under surgery on June 6. Strider, 26, underwent surgery last April to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow launch.
In addition to practicing batting in the field with his teammates, Acuña has run Sprints several times in the gardens during the camp.
“Ronald is doing everything. You know, he hasn’t been cutting or doing things like that,” Snitker said. “But, you know, I have seen it in Atlanta before coming. And as you are seeing right now, I mean, he is doing very well. I mean, he is marking all the lockers. He looks very good.”
Strider launched a parallel session on Wednesday, the first official training day for the launchers and receivers of the Braves. He had a 20-5 mark with an effectiveness of 3.86 in 32 openings in 2023, when he led the league with 281 strikeouts.
“The ball is going very well,” Snitker told MLB Network.
Acuña hit .337, with 41 home runs, 106 rang races and 73 bases stolen in 2023, when it became the first player in the history of baseball to connect 40 homers and steal 70 bases while Atlanta won his sixth consecutive title of the East Division of the National League.
He added only 49 games last season before suffering a complete tear of the anterior cross ligament on May 26. He connected a double in the first entry of that game and his knee ceded when he stopped in an attempt to theft to return to the second base.
Acuña broke the right previous cross ligament on July 20, 2021 and returned in the following April.
