{"id":739667,"date":"2026-06-16T03:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739667\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:35:33","slug":"braves-re-sign-carlos-carrasco-maverick-handley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739667\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Re-Sign Carlos Carrasco, Maverick Handley"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Braves have brought\u00a0Carlos Carrasco<\/a> and\u00a0Maverick Handley<\/a> back to the organization on minor league contracts, according to the MLB.com transaction log<\/a>. Both players were dropped from the 40-man roster last week.<\/p>\n

Carrasco\u2019s return felt inevitable, as he\u2019s been on and off the roster all season. The only question was whether he\u2019d sign a minor league contract or jump directly back onto the MLB roster after he elected free agency. Carrasco will probably be back up before long, especially after the\u00a0Spencer Strider<\/a> injury. That pushed\u00a0JR Ritchie<\/a> back into the rotation, so they may want another long man alongside\u00a0Reynaldo L\u00f3pez<\/a> in the bullpen.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old Carrasco has made five MLB appearances this season, working nine innings of three-run ball. He has started six games with Triple-A Gwinnett, allowing 3.00 earned runs per nine across 30 frames. Carrasco has fanned 21% of opponents against a 5.6% walk rate.<\/p>\n

Handley is back in the system as a depth catcher. Atlanta released him when they activated\u00a0Hurston Waldrep<\/a> from the 60-day injured list and needed to open a 40-man roster spot. Handley was injured at the time and has only played five games since the Braves claimed him off waivers from Baltimore in late May.<\/p>\n

The Braves welcomed Drake Baldwin<\/a> back from injury today. That pushes\u00a0Sandy Le\u00f3n<\/a> to the backup role, leading Atlanta to outright\u00a0Austin Wynns<\/a> off the roster. (The Wynns move also opened a 40-man spot if the Braves want to re-select Carrasco\u2019s contract and option Anthony Molina<\/a>.) If Wynns reports to Gwinnett, that\u2019d drop Handley to no higher than fourth on the organizational depth chart once he\u2019s healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves have brought\u00a0Carlos Carrasco and\u00a0Maverick Handley back to the organization on minor league contracts, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,28241,265538,462,82],"class_list":["post-739667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-carrasco","tag-maverick-handley","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}