I hope the Atlanta Braves aren’t courting trouble with their recent decision to drop Jonah Heim from the team.

Heim was the odd man out when Sean Murphy returned to the team after recovering from offseason hip surgery. It does not make sense for the Braves to carry three catchers, and the Braves are committed to Murphy through 2029 to the tune of $15 million a year. And while the Braves really only signed Heim to keep the seat warm until Murphy’s return, Heim drove in five runs in his final game with the team on Sunday. It just seems like bad mojo to jettison a player who just had such a great game.

Murphy was in the lineup last night in what turned out to be an inauspicious return. On defense, he burned both the Braves’ ABS challenges in the first 10 pitches. At the plate, he hit into a double play and struck out twice, and was lifted in favor of a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning in a game the Braves lost 5-4 to the Seattle Mariners.

There is more to the dynamic than Murphy merely replacing Heim as one of the Braves’ two catchers. A good measure of the Braves’ early success was due to the good start by journeyman designated hitter Dominic Smith. When facing right-handed pitchers, the Braves used Drake Baldwin as their catcher, and Smith served as the designated hitter. When Braves faced a left–handed starter, Baldwin switched to DH, and Heim, a switch-hitter, was in the lineup as the catcher. Now, with Murphy back in the fold, he and Baldwin likely will alternate the catching and designated hitter duties, leaving Smith to serve as a late-game pinch hitter.

Nothing in Smith’s career prior to joining the Braves indicates that he will continue to produce at his current clip–.343, four home runs, and 17 RBIs through 73 plate appearances. But I just hope that a subtle roster move by a team that already had a winning combination isn’t tempting fate.

Let me just say that I’m not a big believer in curses. And one loss is not enough to evaluate a roster move and is certainly no reason to panic. And even if things go south for the Braves from this point on in the season, I don’t see a Curse of Jonah Heim gaining the same traction as the two most famous curses in baseball history.

Most fans are familiar with the Curse of the Bambino, which supposedly began when Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the rival New York Yankees in January of 1920, and the Sox did not win another World Series title until 2004.

The Chicago Cubs supposedly suffered from the Curse of the Billy Goat after team officials either failed to allow William Sienas, owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, to bring his pet goat into Wrigley Field for Game 4 of the 1945 World Series or told him to take his smelly ungulate and leave the premises because the goat was annoying other fans. The Cubs lost Game 4, lost the Series to the Detroit Tigers, and did not return to the Fall Classic until 2016 when they defeated the Cleveland Indians in seven games.

As for Heim, the Braves worked out a deal that sent him to the Athletics. I hope things work out well for him there.