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Wisler working to regain confidence in Triple-A

Matt Wisler on his time in Gwinnett: “Coming down here, it’s kind of helped."
Matt Wisler on his time in Gwinnett: “Coming down here, it’s kind of helped."
By Carroll Rogers Walton
Aug 16, 2016

So much for the Tom Glavine or John Smoltz school of development. Matt Wisler is back in Triple-A Gwinnett, taking the hard knocks of a twenty-something pitching prospect all over again, while the rest of the Braves go on with their rebuild.

But here’s the catch: Wisler isn’t buying any theories that suggest he has not received a chance to take his lumps in the big leagues like the generation before him.

“No, I got my chances,” Wisler said Monday here before Gwinnett opened a three-game series with the Charlotte Knights. “I had a lot of chances, I didn’t take advantage of them. … I went through some last year. They gave me an opportunity to bounce back in September. This year … June was iffy and they gave me four or five chances in July to fix it and I couldn’t.”

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