{"id":938816,"date":"2026-10-19T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938816\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:46:10","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-jurickson-profar-mlb-playoffs-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938816\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Jurickson Profar, MLB Playoffs, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While the offseason has started for 27 of 30 MLB teams, not much news is out there as teams can only currently focus on business with players on their roster. And though he is under contract, one player the Braves will need to focus on is Jurickson Profar. As reported over the past few days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/141351\/jurickson-profar-will-play-winter-ball-in-venezuela-during-upcoming-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Profar will play winter ball<\/a> in Venezuela in the coming months. This is important as it is the first baseball Profar will have played since before the 2026 season started. It will be interesting to see what the team decides to do with Profar before the 2027 arrives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1797504&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Frays-win-alcs-game-5-2026\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rays were able to win<\/a> in their usual small ball fashion on Sunday, and now are one win away from the World Series as they lead the Guardians 3-2 in the ALCS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Mets manager Carlos Mendoza <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jorgecastillo\/status\/2111493608323084705\" rel=\"nofollow\">was reportedly a candidate <\/a>for the Mariners managerial position. However, Mendoza joined the Phillies as their new third base coach over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the offseason has started for 27 of 30 MLB teams, not much news is out there as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[134571,49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-938816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938816","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=938816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}