Jair Jurrjens News

There will be more than one type of diamond Sunday at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville.

With a quarter of the 2012 season behind us, we're beginning to see teams' true colors as some organizations have vaulted themselves into the spotlight and other notable teams find themselves floundering towards the bottom of their divisions.

It was only a couple months ago that the Atlanta Braves were nearing the end of spring training and questioning a struggling offense that had seemingly carried over from the previous season.

Jair Jurrjens had his second statistically poor start in a row for Triple-A Gwinnett on Monday, allowing 11 hits and seven runs with one walk and four strikeouts in 4-1/3 innings.

There was nary a complaint from the Gwinnett Braves about scoring decisions while they were here last week but Gwinnett pitching coach Marty Reed let loose to MLB.com when he left town over Matt Tuiasosopo's inside-the-park home run in Wednesday's 14-7 Bisons' victory.

Ernesto Mejia extended his hitting streak to 10 games in a losing effort as Jair Jurrjens got knocked around, while Todd Cunningham and Joe Leonard each reached base 3 times in a Mississippi win.

The Rochester Red Wings banged out a season-high 10 runs and 18 hits in a 10-1 rout of the Gwinnett Braves on Monday night at Frontier Field in Rochester, N.Y. The G-Braves, however, maintain their three-game lead over Charlotte in the International League South as the Knights lost to Durham 3-2 in 10 innings in Durham, N.C. The game, which was ... (more)

Mike Minor enters his start tonight in Cincinnati with a 7.09 ERA that's soared in the past couple of weeks, and a lot of folks are asking how long the Braves can wait before they ship him to the minor leagues.

ROCHESTER, NY The Gwinnett Braves scored two runs in the first inning and rode the solid pitching of Todd Redmond and Cory Gearrin to a 2-1 win over the Rochester Red Wings in game two of the four game series Sunday afternoon at Frontier Field in Rochester, NY.

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Yesterday Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com tweeted that, while the Red Sox are not in on Braves starting pitcher Jair Jurrjens , the Blue Jays, Orioles, Rockies and Tigers are all interested in the young right-hander.A Atlanta has made it known that they are willing to swap some of their starting pitching depth for offense, and Jurrjens' name has been ... (more)

"I knew it last year. It was just a matter of being able to do it," Beachy said after throwing his first career complete game and shutout, a 7-0 whitewash of the Marlins on Thursday night at Turner Field.

Thoroughly dominant during Interleague Play last season, Rays starter James Shields will be more than happy to take the hill on Friday as his team begins a three-game series against the Braves at Tropicana Field.

The past week wasn't the best one for early NL Cy Young Award favorites. Four of the five pitchers we had listed as top contenders a week ago had their worst starts of the season.

Buffalo Bisons manager Wally Backman makes it clear when talking about Omar Quintanilla just how highly he thinks of his shortstop.

Jair Jurrjens speaks Dutch, English, Spanish, and Papiamentu. But there really are no words.

Fredi Gonzalez said Wednesday night that he thought Mike Minor threw very well - for three innings.

Gwinnett's offense was hot, but not hot enough to back Jurrjens' terrible start.

With the recent struggles of starting pitcher Mike Minor there are many who believe that the Braves should option him to the minors and bring up one of their two talented options sitting in Triple-A. Those options would be veteran, and All-Star, Jair Jurrjens as well as promising youngster Julio Teheran.

The Buffalo Bisons pounded out 14 runs on 17 hits to rout the Gwinnett Braves and starter Jair Jurrjens 14-7 in Game 2 of the four-game series Wednesday night at Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo, New York.