{"id":323922,"date":"2025-12-01T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:56:10","slug":"two-departed-braves-players-find-new-homes-early-in-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323922\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Departed Braves Players Find New Homes Early in Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"70\">After parting ways with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/braves\/onsi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Atlanta Braves<\/a>, a couple of players have found landing spots early this offseason. Right-hander Wander Suero has agreed to a minor league contract with The Athletics, and outfielder Carlos Rodriguez has agreed to a minor league deal with the Padres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">Suero, 34, joined the A\u2019s system Nov. 20 and has been assigned to Tripla-A Las Vegas. Rodrigeuz signed on Nov. 25 and was assigned to Triple-A El Paso.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"76\">The right-hander signed with the Braves in January with an invite to Spring Training. He ended up in Triple-A with Gwinnett, looking sharp in his appearances there. However, when he got his chance to come up to Atlanta, it was rocky. He allowed eight earned runs in 6 1\/3 innings pitched (11.37 ERA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"79\">After he was designated for assignment in September, he was picked up by the Mets to finish out the season. He was called up, but he never pitched for them. Now, he finds himself with the chance to pitch in Sacramento next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7c\">For his career, Suero has a 4.96 ERA across 196 games that span parts of seven seasons. He primarily pitched for the Nationals, being of member of their bullpen from 2018 to 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7f\">Rodriguez was picked up last offseason after he departed from the Brewers organization. At the end of last season, he had been listed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/braves\/carlos-rodriguez-677578\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the No. 25 prospect <\/a>in the minor league system. The Braves had him on the 40-man roster and had called him up to the active roster. He never took the field for the team, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7i\">After he was outrighted to Triple-A, he elected free agency. He now gets a chance in the Padres system. At 24 years old, there is still a potential future for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7l\">He has a solid track record in Double-A, but he is still finding his footing at the Triple-A level. In 159 games at the highest level of the minor leagues, he has batted .247 with a .642 OPS, eight home runs and 42 RBIs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7o\">The Braves have brought some options into the system that help replace the depth. They have brought in multiple relief options on minor league deals, most recently Jacob Wallace. Outfielder Brewer Hicklen was brought in on a minor league contract as well. Both could see action in Spring Training and bring Major League experience to the table.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More From Atlanta Braves on SI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After parting ways with the Atlanta Braves, a couple of players have found landing spots early this offseason.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-323922","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\/323922","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=323922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}