Baseball. You have to love it. Two of the most loaded teams in recent Braves minor league history, Mississippi and Rome, go 0-6 combined on the week, and Carolina and Gwinnett, neither of which are bad teams by any means, but certainly not to that level have a combined record of 9-5. Go figure!
Transactions (since opening day last Thursday):
4/7 Braeden Schlehuber placed on minor league DL
4/7 Kanekoa Texeira placed on minor league DL
4/7 Rob Wooten placed on minor league DL
4/7 Matt Kennelly placed on minor league DL
4/7 Dian Toscano placed on minor league DL
4/7 Victor Mateo placed on minor league DL
4/7 Steve Kent placed on minor league DL
4/7 Britt Robertshaw placed on minor league DL
4/7 Sal Giardina placed on minor league DL
4/7 Tyler Brosius placed on minor league DL
4/7 Chris Diaz placed on minor league DL
4/7 Leudys Baez placed on minor league DL
4/7 Brady Feigl assigned to Gwinnett from extended spring
4/7 Luis Valenzuela assigned to Carolina from extended spring
4/7 AJ Minter assigned to Rome from extended spring
4/7 Kurt Hoekstra assigned to Rome from extended spring
4/7 Josh Graham assigned to Rome from extended spring
4/9 Connor Lien placed on minor league DL
4/9 Sean Godfrey promoted from Carolina to Mississippi
4/9 Stephen Gaylor promoted from Rome to Carolina
4/9 Bradley Keller assigned to Rome from extended spring
4/10 John Gant optioned from Atlanta to Gwinnett
4/10 Chris Withrow called up from Gwinnett to Atlanta
4/10 Chad Sobotka placed on minor league DL
4/10 Oriel Caicedo assigned to Rome from extended spring
4/11 Mallex Smith called up from Gwinnett to Atlanta
4/11 Emilio Bonifacio signed to Gwinnett
4/11 Hunter Cervenka called up from Mississippi to Atlanta
4/11 Joel De La Cruz called up from Gwinnett to Atlanta
4/12 Trevor Belicek promoted from Rome to Mississippi
4/12 Joel De La Cruz optioned from Atlanta to Gwinnett
4/12 Jhoulys Chacin called up from Gwinnett to Atlanta
4/13 Daniel Castro called up from Gwinnett to Atlanta