{"id":298950,"date":"2025-11-21T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:15:07","slug":"braves-connor-thomas-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298950\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves, Connor Thomas Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Braves recently signed left-hander\u00a0Connor Thomas<\/a> to a minor league contract, (h\/t to Matt Eddy of Baseball America<\/a>). It\u2019s possible that\u2019s a two-year deal, as the 27-year-old underwent UCL surgery in July and will miss most or all of the \u201926 season.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a homecoming for the Tifton, Georgia, native. Thomas played his college ball at Georgia Tech and was selected by the Cardinals in the fifth round in 2019. He spent the 2023-24 campaigns at Triple-A Memphis, posting impressive numbers following a move to the bullpen in the latter year. Thomas tossed 90 1\/3 innings across 56 appearances, pitching to a 3.39 earned run average. He didn\u2019t miss many bats but attacked the strike zone and got a lot of ground-balls and weak contact.<\/p>\n

The Brewers grabbed Thomas in last winter\u2019s Rule 5 draft. He pitched well enough in Spring Training to break camp and make his MLB debut. It didn\u2019t go as planned, as he was bombed for eight runs on a trio of homers in two mop-up innings in a blowout loss to the Yankees. Thomas pitched against the Reds six days later, surrendering four more runs on six hits across 3 1\/3 frames. He went on the injured list after the second appearance and went under the knife a few months later.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee dropped Thomas from the roster at the beginning of the offseason. He\u2019ll rehab with his hometown club and try to factor into a long relief role once he\u2019s healthy down the line. Thomas sits in the 89-90 MPH range with his fastball and uses four pitches (sinker, cutter, changeup, sweeper) at similar rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves recently signed left-hander\u00a0Connor Thomas to a minor league contract, (h\/t to Matt Eddy of Baseball America).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,171012,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298950","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-connor-thomas","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298950","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=298950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}