{"id":295975,"date":"2025-11-20T01:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295975\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:13:08","slug":"braves-re-sign-raisel-iglesias-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295975\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Re-Sign Raisel Iglesias &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves announced they\u2019ve re-signed free agent closer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/i\/iglesra01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raisel Iglesias<\/a> to a one-year, $16MM deal. The PRIME client returns for what\u2019ll be a fifth season in Atlanta on the same salary he made in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case with Braves moves, the signing comes out of the blue. President of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos suggested at the GM Meetings that the team was more focused on addressing shortstop and upgrading the starting rotation while keeping the bullpen on the back burner. That apparently changed with the opportunity to keep Iglesias, who remains a high-end reliever as he enters his age-36 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-year veteran carries a 2.35 earned run average in 218 2\/3 innings since the Braves acquired him from the Angels at the 2022 trade deadline. He\u2019s fourth in MLB with 113 saves since the start of that season. Iglesias posted a sub-3.00 ERA each season between 2020-24 as one of the steadier closers in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Things seemed as if they might come off the rails early in 2025. Iglesias gave up an early-season home run barrage, including five longballs in April alone. He surrendered seven round-trippers before the end of May and carried an ugly 5.91 ERA through the first two months. The switch flipped over the summer, as Iglesias was one of the league\u2019s best late-game arms from the beginning of June onward. He reeled off 46 frames of 1.96 ERA ball while striking out 29.3% of opponents over the season\u2019s final four months. Iglesias only gave up one home run in that time despite a massive 54.5% fly-ball rate.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves announced they\u2019ve re-signed free agent closer\u00a0Raisel Iglesias to a one-year, $16MM deal. The PRIME client returns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,10540,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-295975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-raisel-iglesias","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}