Some bad news for former Clemson pitcher Spencer Strider and his Atlanta Braves team.
Strider will start the 2026 season on the injured list with an oblique strain, Braves manager Walt Weiss said Monday.
While the Braves haven’t given a formal return timeline for Strider, Weiss expressed hope that the righthander would only miss a couple of weeks.
Strider was scratched from his final spring training start on Monday. He suffered a similar oblique issue in late 2022, which sidelined him for the final few weeks of the regular season.
“l think we’ve gotten out in front of this thing to a degree,” Weiss said, via MLB.