ON WORKING BACK FROM INJURY:
AUSTIN RILEY
No, I’m getting there. I’m slowly but surely kind of day-to-day, you know, it’s just that obliques, a little weird. It’s just, you know, you gotta be super cautious with it. You know, you…you could, you know, you got to make sure it’s 100% don’t want to be, you know, thinking I’m OK, you know, come back too soon and then it’s, you know, then I’m down for two months-long season, let’s be you know, still really, let’s be cautious. But I’m…I’m getting there.
ON WHEN AUSTIN FELT HIS INJURY:
I felt it’s a little something during BP and and it’s like playing every day, you know, my knees pops, my elbows, pops shoulders pop, It’s like it’s just kind of like stuff happened. So it’s like it was one of. Things where I was like, you know, nothing, nothing to it. I went into my first at bat, felt it a little more than my second bat. It it, it kind of grabbed on me a little bit and just, you know, went to the trainers because I’d never. I want to play every day and they had to force me out of there there in in New York and just, you know, just talking to them, you know, letting them know kind of what I was feeling. And like I said, it was. It was ultimately didn’t have a choice. They, you know, they said, let’s be smart about this thing.
OFFENSE WILL KICK IN SOON:
To be honest, we hadn’t clicked at all on all cylinders offensively and we’re still in a really good spot. So it’s like, you know, and and…and it’s just a matter of time until we do. So I think it’s. It’s going to get scary at some point. Someone’s going to be paying.
ALEX ANTHOPOULOS HAS AN EYE FOR TALENT:
Ronaldo’s been great. He, you know, he’s super quiet and just kind of goes about his business the right way and…and has bought in to what we have in our clubhouse. And I’m a big hunter and you talk about deer having six senses and just an extra sense. It’s like Alex has that when it comes to being a GM. He’s got, you know, he’s got something that he can just see and and certain guys and being able to go get a guy like Ronaldo and… and take that chance of putting him in the, you know, starting position and what he’s done. And like I said, along with Chris Sale understand that, you know, he’s had some injuries, but he’s had a, you know, healthy, you know, off season for the first time in a long time, it’s been it’s been fun to watch.
IMPRESSED WITH TEAM DEPTH:
Just the depth that we have, I mean, yeah, I think Snit said it best. It’s like, we got obviously got Murph down, but we got two number one catchers, you know, with Travis and and Murph and then, you know, I’m gonna be back at some point and then, you know, you just get, you get going and…and then like I said, we haven’t clicked on all cylinders on, off, offensively, our bullpen has been great. Hopefully get Pierce Johnson, back in the next couple of days and then, like I said, you put all that together. You know, hopefully this is timing up right where we’re… we’re really hitting that long stretch into…into the summer and then and then on into to the post season.
ATLANTA – Braves all-star Austin Riley joins The Locker Room to give us an update on his injury status, success of the Braves newcomers, supporting the veterans with his golf tournament, and MORE!
