{"id":275851,"date":"2025-11-06T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275851\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:34:07","slug":"braves-exercise-option-on-ozzie-albies-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275851\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves exercise option on Ozzie Albies for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"122673a3-bf06-4432-6950-b8a32e52ac2e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braves<\/a> exercised their option on second baseman <a data-player-guid=\"63a411fa-4cab-cd64-bc7b-4ae9cac94564\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33783\/ozzie-albies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzie Albies<\/a> on Thursday while declining options on pitchers <a data-player-guid=\"db889ea6-8667-f73d-e2fa-31256c774ba0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32777\/pierce-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierce Johnson<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"954f56db-1c2d-ad37-0049-22c99407ad15\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34166\/tyler-kinley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Kinley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves also made official that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46858853\/source-braves-exercise-18m-option-chris-sale-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">picking up its $18 million team option<\/a> on left-hander <a data-player-guid=\"340816fb-4469-8d43-2e6c-738329c31ed4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30948\/chris-sale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Albies gets a $7 million salary in 2026 for what will be the last season in a deal worth $45 million over nine years. The 28-year-old hit a career-low .240 with 16 homers and 74 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Johnson gets a $250,000 buyout rather than a $7 million salary, completing a two-year contract guaranteeing $14.25 million. The 34-year-old right-hander was 3-3 with a 3.05 ERA in 65 relief appearances, striking out 59 in 59 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Kinley receives a $750,000 buyout instead of a $5 million salary. A right-hander who turns 35 in January, Kinley was acquired from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f3f1ba71-05f1-a49a-0363-3b1d8e0db4cf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> at the trade deadline. He was 6-3 with a 3.96 ERA in 73 relief appearances, including 5-0 with a 0.72 ERA in 24 games for the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>When he was still recovering from right flexor tendon surgery, Kinley and the Rockies agreed ahead of the 2023 season to a $6.25 million, three-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA &#8212; The Braves exercised their option on second baseman Ozzie Albies on Thursday while declining options on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-275851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}