The Atlanta Braves placed right-hander Grant Holmes on the 15-day injured list on Sunday, meaning all five of the club’s starters on Opening Day are on the injured list.

Fedde will step in as a much-needed starter who is ready to be deployed immediately. As it stands, Atlanta's starting pitchers currently on the injured list include Grant Holmes, Chris Sale, Spencer Schwellenbach, Reynaldo Lopez and AJ Smith-Shawver. All three of Holmes, Sale and Schwellenbach went down with injuries this month.

Grant Holmes went down with an injury on Saturday, adding to the Braves' nightmare list of pitching ailments this season.

But if baseball has taught us anything, it's that, no matter how down you might be feeling, no matter how dark it may seem, things can always get worse. And while the Fedde deal was bad enough, the Braves managed to follow it up with an even more depressing transaction less than 24 hours later.

The #Braves today acquired RHP Erick Fedde and cash considerations from the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations. To make room on the 40-man roster, Atlanta transferred RHP Grant Holmes to the 60-day injured list.

The Atlanta Braves have plenty of talented pitchers on the injured list. It remains to be seen if they'll make their return to the roster this year.

The Atlanta Braves manager argued that when a pitcher returns shouldn't be decided by a team's postseason outlook

The Braves are losing yet another key piece of their rotation to the injured list. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.