Braves left-hander Ray Kerr might want to bear Tommy John surgical procedure, supervisor Brian Sntiker informed reporters on Monday (video on X through Bally Sports activities South). Atlanta had optioned the hard-throwing southpaw to Triple-A Gwinnett on June 15. The Braves rescinded that choice this night and positioned him on the MLB injured checklist with the UCL problem.
Kerr will spend the remainder of the 12 months on the injured checklist. (The small comfort is that he’ll be paid on the prorated $740K MLB minimal price as a result of the harm evidently occurred earlier than he was despatched down.) Atlanta can transfer him to the 60-day injured checklist every time they should open a spot on the 40-man roster. They’ll both have to reinstate him onto the 40-man or put him on waivers in the beginning of subsequent offseason.
The latter consequence can be notably irritating, nevertheless it’s attainable the Braves don’t wish to carry Kerr on their 40-man roster all winter. He’ll definitely be out into the second half of subsequent 12 months and will miss your complete 2025 marketing campaign.
Atlanta appreciated Kerr sufficient to eat $4M of Matt Carpenter’s $5.5M wage in a commerce with the Padres final offseason. The Braves instantly designated Carpenter for project and launched him, so the commerce was solely about “buying” Kerr’s contractual rights. Atlanta even dabbled with transferring Kerr to the rotation, giving him a pair of begins in late Might.
These outings didn’t go notably effectively, because the 29-year-old allowed seven runs throughout 7 1/3 innings from the rotation. Kerr had extra success in his typical bullpen position, tossing 14 2/3 innings of six-run ball. He punched out 27 hitters whereas issuing seven walks total. Kerr is as much as 54 1/3 frames of 5.30 ERA ball over components of three seasons within the large leagues. He seemingly wouldn’t attain arbitration till the 2027 season, so the Braves might maintain him round at little monetary price in the event that they’re keen to hold him on the roster.
