{"id":409404,"date":"2026-01-13T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409404\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:06:07","slug":"rays-acquire-if-brett-wisely-lhp-ken-waldichuk-from-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409404\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays acquire IF Brett Wisely, LHP Ken Waldichuk from Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> acquired infielder Brett Wisely and left-hander Ken Waldichuk from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> on Monday in exchange for cash considerations or a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>Waldichuk was designated for assignment Saturday to clear a roster spot when the Braves signed right-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34166\/tyler-kinley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Kinley<\/a> to a $4.25 million, one-year contract that includes a 2027 club option.<\/p>\n<p>Wisely, 26, had no hits and three walks in nine plate appearances with Atlanta in 2025. He returns to his original organization after being a 15th-round draft pick by Tampa Bay in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Waldichuk, 28, was a combined 6-11 with a 5.28 ERA in the 2022 and 2023 seasons with Oakland, and has no other major league experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA &#8212; The Tampa Bay Rays acquired infielder Brett Wisely and left-hander Ken Waldichuk from the Atlanta Braves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-409404","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409404","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=409404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}