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Carrasco

With Dylan Lee coming off the Paternity List, the Braves will move on from Carrasco and keep Didier Fuents in the big leagues. Carrasco threw one scoreless inning for Atlanta this season. The 39-year-old will likely clear waivers and could return to the Braves on a minor league contract.

Didier Fuentes only lasted three innings on Wednesday night, so the Braves had to use Martin Perez for 52 pitches in relief. That means the team needs JR Ritchie to start on Thursday and needs somebody else to provide length out of the bullpen over the weekend. That role will fall to Carrasco, but he remains off fantasy radars.

Bowman adds that Carrasco will be brought up to provide long relief depth behind pitching prospect JR Ritchie during his big-league debut against the Nationals on Thursday. It’ll be Dylan Dodd going to the injured list as the corresponding move.

The latest batch of cuts trims Atlanta’s spring training roster to 50 players. Carrasco is one of the highest-profile non-roster invitees in Braves camp this spring as he attempts to make it back to the big leagues for a 17th season since 2009. He figures to gobble up low-leverage innings at some point in the year. The same goes for Hernández and Karinchak, who were notable pitchers earlier this decade.

All five runs came in the first, when Carrasco was pulled with two outs. The second inning went smoothly, though, as he retired Trent Grisham, Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger in order. Carrasco remains a long shot to claim the fifth spot in Atlanta’s rotation.

Carrasco, who turns 39 in 10 days, finessed his way to six outs today, as his hardest pitch checked in at 90.5 mph. He’s in the mix for a spot in Atlanta’s rotation, though it hurts his case that the club has so many out-of-options candidates (Grant Holmes, Bryce Elder, José Suarez and Joey Wentz, to be specific). Carrasco is in camp on a minor league deal, though he will have the right to become a free agent if he doesn’t make the team.

Carrasco returns to the fold as emergency depth for Atlanta after compiling a bloated 7.09 ERA, 1.71 WHIP and 34/17 K/BB ratio across 45 2/3 innings over 11 appearances (nine starts) between the Braves and Yankees last season. The long-time fixture in Cleveland’s rotation would be back for his 17th season in the big leagues if he makes it to Truist Park at some point next year.

He’s back. Carrasco’s foray into free agency lasted only a few hours before latching back on with Atlanta as emergency organizational pitching depth. The 38-year-old veteran was torched for 15 runs on 22 hits across 13 2/3 innings of work in his three starts for the Braves.

The Carrasco era comes to a close in Atlanta after just three calamitous starts where he was shelled for 15 runs on 22 hits across 13 2/3 innings of work. It’s possible this is the end of the road for the 38-year-old veteran after a 16-year career that dates back to 2009.

This doesn’t come as a huge surprise with Carrasco having yet another subpar start on Wednesday night. With Hurston Waldrep pitching well, this move opens up a spot for him to remain in Atlanta’s rotation going forward. Sadly, this may be the end of the road for Carrasco.