Braves Franchise History<\/p>\n
1995 \u2013 The Braves trade Kent Mercker to the Orioles in exchange for Joe Borowski and Rachaad Stewart. Merker spent the first seven years of his career with the Braves where he went 31-25 with a 3.49 ERA in 515 \u2154 innings. He appeared in 14 games for the Orioles in 1996 before they sent him to Cleveland in exchange for future Hall of Fame first baseman Eddie Murray.<\/p>\n
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2002 \u2013 The Braves acquire starter Russ Ortiz from the Giants in exchange for Damian Moss and Manuel Mateo.<\/p>\n
2002 \u2013 The Braves agree to a two-year contract with free agent Paul Byrd.<\/p>\n
MLB History<\/p>\n
1910 \u2013 John Harris sells the Boston National League team to a syndicate headed by William Hepburn Russell for $100,000.<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 Charles Comiskey names Clarence \u201cPants\u201d Rowland, a scout and minor league executive with Peoria, as his new manager of the White Sox.<\/p>\n
1920 \u2013 The National and American Leagues vote to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league. There will be 17 players that are allowed to throw the spitball going forward.<\/p>\n
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1964 \u2013 The Yankees fire Mel Allen, their long-time TV and radio voice.<\/p>\n
1968 \u2013 Owners announce that they will increase contributions to the players\u2019 pension fund by $1 million to $5.1 million per year. The players overwhelmingly vote down the proposal 491-7.<\/p>\n
1992 \u2013 The Twins sign free agent outfielder Dave Winfield.<\/p>\n
1993 \u2013 The A\u2019s sign Rickey Henderson to a two-year, $8.6 million deal.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2013 David Wells agrees to a three-year, $13.5 million deal with the Yankees.<\/p>\n
2000 \u2013 Plans for financing and construction of a new downtown stadium in Miami with a retractable roof are announced.<\/p>\n
2003 \u2013 Gary Sheffield agrees to a three-year, $39 million deal with the Yankees.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2013 The Phillies re-sign Jimmy Rollins to a three-year, $33 million deal.<\/p>\n
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference<\/a>, NationalPastime.com<\/a> and Today in Baseball History<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braves Franchise History 1995 \u2013 The Braves trade Kent Mercker to the Orioles in exchange for Joe Borowski…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[13087,852,5856,176024,176022,2821,363,8894,176023,99,83957,85905,36362,176025,12404],"class_list":{"0":"post-354214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-braves","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-jimmy-rollins","11":"tag-joe-borowski","12":"tag-kent-mercker","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-phillies","16":"tag-russ-ortiz","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-braves","19":"tag-the-orioles","20":"tag-white-sox","21":"tag-william-hepburn-russell","22":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354214","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=354214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}