{"id":895202,"date":"2026-09-17T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895202\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:31:06","slug":"braves-outright-bailey-falter-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895202\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Outright Bailey Falter – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Braves sent left-hander\u00a0Bailey Falter<\/a> outright to Triple-A Gwinnett, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>. That was expected when Atlanta designated him for assignment on Monday.<\/p>\n

Falter has more than three years of service time and can technically elect free agency. It\u2019s likelier he\u2019ll accept the assignment, as he\u2019d otherwise be leaving the final couple weeks of his $3.6MM salary behind (around $232K). Falter could make one final appearance with the Stripers before their season ends on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Assuming he accepts the assignment, there\u2019s a chance Falter gets another MLB look next week. Atlanta looks increasingly likely to finish as the #3 seed in the National League. They rearranged their rotation to have\u00a0Chris Sale<\/a> make his final regular season appearance a week from now. That\u2019ll line him up on five days rest for Game 1 of the Wild Card Series the following Tuesday. They\u2019ll presumably want Tyler Mahle<\/a> available for Game 2.<\/p>\n

That could leave the Braves throwing only depth arms in their final game or two of the regular season in Miami.\u00a0JR Ritchie<\/a> and\u00a0Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez<\/a> should each get a start in that series, with\u00a0AJ Smith-Shawver<\/a>,\u00a0Owen Murphy<\/a>, Elieser Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> and Falter among the other options to eat a few innings and keep their top arms rested for the first round.<\/p>\n

Falter, acquired alongside Lane Thomas<\/a> as salary relief for the Royals, has made two relief appearances in an Atlanta uniform. He has worked 3 1\/3 scoreless innings after tossing 10 1\/3 spotless frames with Gwinnett. While it has undoubtedly been a nice showing with his new team, Falter is a soft-tosser who doesn\u2019t miss many bats and was knocked around in Kansas City. He\u2019ll reach minor league free agency this offseason if the Braves don\u2019t put him back on the MLB roster. Even if they call him up in the final weekend, they\u2019re not likely to tender him an arbitration contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves sent left-hander\u00a0Bailey Falter outright to Triple-A Gwinnett, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. That was expected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,33143,591,85],"class_list":["post-895202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bailey-falter","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895202","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=895202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}