{"id":46023,"date":"2018-07-27T22:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46023"},"modified":"2020-08-07T22:58:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:58:56","slug":"full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46023","title":{"rendered":"Full circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back to where it all began<\/a>: Tampa Bay Rays trade Jonny Venters to the Atlanta Braves<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I thought I\u2019d be more pumped up about this trade, considering how much I love Jonny Venters, and that he\u2019s coming back to the Atlanta Braves.\u00a0 But I guess there\u2019s this permanent small resentment towards the Braves in my brain, involving their unnecessary move, their affiliation with ScumTrust, the tax increases they caused, and their general apathetic baseball operations that kind of makes me feel that they didn\u2019t deserve to have the services of a classy guy like Jonny Venters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Especially since the Braves basically cut Venters loose while he was at his very lowest point after numerous injuries, it was the Rays that kept his career alive, and I guess it was with the Rays in which I would\u2019ve liked to have seen his career reignite.\u00a0 Or at least, I would\u2019ve loved to have seen the Rays trade Venters to an actual contender, and not like the currently free-falling Braves, who need starting pitching and not more relievers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But ultimately, we\u2019re talking about Jonny Venters here, whom I\u2019m stoked to see having a pretty successful comeback from 3.5 elbow blowouts.\u00a0 His ERA is misleading, seeing as how all of the runs he gave up were from one of the Rays\u2019 mad-scientist experimental relief-starting, where Venters gave up five runs to the Nationals during a start, instead of a relief appearance.\u00a0 Otherwise, since that one black mark on his list of appearances, he\u2019s been back to being scoreless, and the pitcher with obvious appeal to someone looking for relief help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps part of my hesitation to be happy is that I inherently have this fear that back in a Braves uniform, Venters will fall victim to the same fate that befell him the last time he suited up for the Braves, which was an elbow blow out.\u00a0 Venters has stated as much that there will be no more chances after this, and when it\u2019s over, it\u2019s truly over now.\u00a0 Considering all he\u2019s been through, I want to see Venters have a nice long Darren Oliver-like career, where because he pitches with his left hand, will always have a job in the majors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I\u2019m pleased that Jonny Venters is having himself a fine 2018 season.\u00a0 He\u2019s definitely making up for a lot of lost time where he could\u2019ve had a lot of success headed his way had he not gotten hurt so many times in the past.\u00a0 Hopefully the Braves will get out of this funk they\u2019re in, and seeing as how Venters effectively kind of replaces this year\u2019s Macay McBride in Sam Freeman, maybe the Braves can get back to the .550 team they were prior to July.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back to where it all began: Tampa Bay Rays trade Jonny Venters to the Atlanta Braves Honestly, I thought I\u2019d be more pumped up about this trade, considering how much I love Jonny Venters, and that he\u2019s coming back to the Atlanta Braves.\u00a0 But I guess there\u2019s this permanent small resentment towards the Braves in … Continue reading Full circle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,66,12,124],"class_list":["post-46023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-scumtrust","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46025,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46023\/revisions\/46025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}