Fedde will step in as a much-needed starter who is ready to be deployed immediately. As it stands, Atlanta's starting pitchers currently on the injured list include Grant Holmes, Chris Sale, Spencer Schwellenbach, Reynaldo Lopez and AJ Smith-Shawver. All three of Holmes, Sale and Schwellenbach went down with injuries this month.

The Braves won a championship in 2021, and won 100 games in back-to-back seasons following that, but this season has been a disaster. They’re on pace to have their worst season since they lost 93 games in 2016. The team has gone into freefall in July, dropping 15 of their 21 games this month. Their 18-34 road record is fourth-worst in baseball.

That leaves designated hitter Marcell Ozuna, a three-time All-Star who has had a down year to this point, as the biggest name to watch on the Braves roster between now and Thursday.

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Spencer Strider (4-8, 3.72 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 89 strikeouts); Royals: Richard Hill (0-1, 1.80 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, one strikeout) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -169, Royals +142; over/under is 9 1/2 runs

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The Braves’ attempts to patch their decimated pitching rotation continued Monday, as the team acquired pitcher Carlos Carrasco from the New York Yankees. The Yankees sent Carrasco to the Braves — whose entire five-man pitching rotation to start the season is on the injured list— in exchange for cash considerations.

But if baseball has taught us anything, it's that, no matter how down you might be feeling, no matter how dark it may seem, things can always get worse. And while the Fedde deal was bad enough, the Braves managed to follow it up with an even more depressing transaction less than 24 hours later.

Grant Holmes has elbow tightness and will hit the IL to determine the extent of the injury. That completes the entirety of the Braves’ Opening Day rotation being on the IL. Michael Harris had a really encouraging game, but the Braves found a way to lose with some bad luck and more of the same.