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The Los Angeles cut two longest players in a week. Backup catcher Austin Burns was designated for allocation, and utility man Christaylor was released. <\/p>\n
More news:<\/strong> Tescal Hernandez makes Dave Roberts look genius as manager praises the star outfielder<\/p>\n The have made it clear that the player’s cut is a business decision in the NL West Race. Both veterans were used sparingly this season. <\/p>\n This season, Burns had .214\/.233\/.286 with two RBIs, reducing OPS of .518 across the appearance of the 44 plates. Backstop played in just 13 games. <\/p>\n Taylor took 35 plate appearances and made 35-7 appearances in 13 strikeouts this season. He appeared in 2025 in 28 of the ‘ 46 games.<\/p>\n The ‘ decision to say goodbye to Burns and Taylor made sense, but Freddie Freeman explained how emotional their departure was for the team. <\/p>\n “It’s like having a group of guys card on an airplane. Austin was one of them. Now, Kirby Yates is in Illinois. “A lot of people don’t understand. There’s a lot going on. If you lose someone in a year, it stinks.” <\/p>\n Freeman realizes that the reality of baseball is the departure of a longtime friend. But the ‘ top priority is still winning. <\/p>\n “It sucks. There’s no way around that,” Freeman said. “If you say it’s not sad when you lose a friend, you’re not human. You can just go. You’ll be a little sad, but that’s not why you’re 0 at 4 now.”<\/p>\n “It’s difficult. It’s really true. But you know it’s business and you have to keep going,” he continued.<\/p>\n “When you lose two respected veterans in the clubhouse, you need to become a grown boy and understand reasoning. You can be sad that you have lost a friend – you can still be in touch with that friend. But we have to continue.<\/p>\n More news: <\/strong>‘ Chris Taylor wanted the opportunity elsewhere, Dave Roberts opens with release<\/p>\n Photo credit: Kirby Lee-Usa Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n Have you joined us? <\/em>Mismatch Channel<\/em> still? Be part of the ultimate Snation community and get VIP Nation Access! Don’t miss out on real-time stories, call-in access to the dugout, behind-the-scenes content, exclusive interviews, gifts and more!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Los Angeles cut two longest players in a week. Backup catcher Austin Burns was designated for allocation, and utility man Christaylor was released. More news: Tescal Hernandez makes Dave Roberts look genius as manager praises the star outfielder The have made it clear that the player’s cut is a business decision in the NL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-4223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}