Braves' Player Recap: Ben Sheets

Today's Braves' recap will be on starting pitcher Ben Sheets.
Sheets started his big league career with the Milwaukee Brewers back in 2001. He was a main member of their starting rotation for eight years before joining the Oakland A's for a season. He retired after having an arm injury but after two years, he came out of retirement to pitch again for the Braves this year.
Sheets only pitched in nine games for the Braves in 2012. He started off red hot, but then he struggled. In three starts from August 12th to August 24th, Sheets gave up a total of fifteen runs and his ERA went from 1.41 to 3.54. He was then put on the disabled list and didn't pitch again until the last day of the season.
As said before, when Sheets first came back, he was red hot, no one could hit him. In his first three starts, he pitched a total of eighteen innings and gave up only one run. His best start of the year though came on August 6th against the Philadelphia Phillies, as he pitched over seven innings and gave up only one run. He finished the year with a 4-4 record with a 3.47 ERA and 35 strikeouts.
Sheets already has stated he won't play again next season. He retired right after his final appearance, a scoreless inning pitched against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He finishes his career with a 94-96 record, a 3.78 ERA and 1,325 strikeouts. When he came out of retirement, he revitalized a Braves team that was staggering midway through the season and just having lost Brandon Beachy for the rest of the year. He helped right the Braves' season and helped himself to go out on a better note than he did with Oakland.