Which Atlanta Braves players does the delay help and hurt?

Unprecedented times indeed are upon us. We should be getting into the flow of things in the 2020 schedule and the Atlanta Braves should already have swept the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres, but here we are.

We can do nothing but look forward to the day when Atlanta Braves baseball is once again back on our television or when we can go to Truist Park. Until then, we can only examine who on the Atlanta Braves this delay could help and who it could hurt even more than most.

Let’s get to it.

First, let’s go over the three that could see this as a positive.

1. Cole Hamels

This one is kind of a no-brainer. It was announced early in Spring training that Cole Hamels would miss all of April and would probably be shelved a little bit of May as well.

Obviously there has been no recent announcements of anything on how Hamels rehab (if you want to call it that) is going, so we, therefore, have no knowledge if there have been any setbacks or whatnot.

Assuming there hasn’t been and also going off the notion that Hamels’ injury was not more severe than what we were led on to believe, one would have to imagine that the Atlanta Braves off-season acquisition would be ready to take the hill whenever the 2020 major league season get’s underway, which obviously is much more sooner than later.

Being that the Atlanta Braves and the left-hander agreed to a 1-year deal back in December, it wouldn’t be that big of a loss financially if the season were (gulp) completely canceled and we never got to see Hamels take the mound wearing an Atlanta “A” on his hat

But that is a worst-case scenario and I still have dreams of Cole Hamels toeing the rubber for the Atlanta Braves come a big series in October (or November if that’s what it takes).