The Braves struck on Thursday with some unfortunate news, placing superb return story and highly reliable reliever Nick Anderson on the 60-Day Injured Checklist in order to clear a 40-man spot for a waiver case: The #Braves today declared OF Dalton Guthrie off waivers from the San Francisco Giants and optioned him to Triple-A Gwinnett. To make room on the 40-man roster, Atlanta placed RHP Nick Anderson on the 60-day damaged list, backdated to July 8th, with a right shoulder 's performance had actually definitely wound down over time. Hardly a lock for the Opening Day roster when the Braves signed him to a split contract worth $800, 000 at the big league degree in November 2022, Anderson excited in Spring Training and after that swiftly ensconced himself as a higher-leverage option from the beginning. Via Might 1, he had an outrageous 80 AGE-/ 40 FIP-/ 45 xFIP-, which came with a collection of looks where he released a complimentary pass in just one outing, and was starting out over 38 percent of batters initially 12 looks were superb, however the following 12, via June 12 Giants Shorts, were rather worse: 74/72/94. The walks were still greatly nonexistent, however the strikeout price nearly halved itself, to 20 percent. Then rougher times came. Over his last 10 trips, Anderson has a 45/121/131 line. He walked a batter in four straight outings at one point, after releasing simply three walks the whole period ahead of time. Perhaps his performance since mid-June has actually been the resut of him trying to pitch with a shoulder concern; we'll never ever , Anderson's accumulated 69/73/86 line has been among the very best in baseball up until now, as his 0.8 fWAR is a top 30 mark among relievers and second on the team to A.J. Minter.