The Atlanta Braves just placed Yonny Chirinos on the IL and brought up Allan Winans, to some fan’s joy and other fans hopefulness of Chirinos getting back to his former self dashed, at least for now.
Whether it is a phantom IL stint or not, it appears that the Braves want to keep him on the roster. There is some confusion on if he has one MiLB option remaining. Fangraphs says he does, but Mark Bowman says he does not. Based on the way they have used him though, it appears that they have faith he can get back to the way he used to perform pre-Tommy John surgery, and they don’t want to expose him to waivers (out of options).