{"id":1163,"date":"2008-04-04T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T22:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/04\/slow-starters-for-the-braves\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T22:51:49","slug":"slow-starters-for-the-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/04\/slow-starters-for-the-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow start(ers) for the Braves."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Hudson, where else can the Braves turn for quality starts?\u00a0 Sure there is Smoltz, but he is on the DL and likely injury prone.\u00a0 If he does stay healthy, he will put up innings.\u00a0 That would give us last year \u2013 Hudson, Smoltz, and pray for rain.<\/p>\n<p>Glavine looks decent; he managed 5 innings in his first start.\u00a0 Jair Jurrjens looks very impressive, and has a lot of upside, but he only managed to go 5.1 innings in his first start before tiring out in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Last night Hampton was scratched before the game and is now on the 15-day DL.\u00a0 Chuck James will replace Hampton, but guess what?\u00a0 James is coming off the DL, and before the latest Hampton injury, James was going to be sent to AAA.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bennett did a nice job as an emergency starter, going 6 innings, and only giving up 3 runs.<\/p>\n<p>I know the season is young, but if the starters cannot stay healthy and provide quality starts, it will be an extremely long, frustrating, and ultimately disappointing season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Hudson, where else can the Braves turn for quality starts?\u00a0 Sure there is Smoltz, but he is on the DL and likely injury prone.\u00a0 If he does stay healthy, he will put up innings.\u00a0 That would give us last year \u2013 Hudson, Smoltz, and pray for rain. Glavine looks decent; he managed 5 innings &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/04\/slow-starters-for-the-braves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slow start(ers) for the Braves.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}