{"id":359068,"date":"2025-12-20T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359068\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:17:08","slug":"braves-sign-ian-hamilton-to-major-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359068\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Sign Ian Hamilton To Major League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves announced the signing of reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hamilia01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ian Hamilton<\/a> to a one-year, non-guaranteed contract. Atlanta opened a 40-man roster spot <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/12\/braves-outright-anthony-molina.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this afternoon<\/a> when they ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/molinan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Molina<\/a> through waivers. Hamilton is represented by ALIGND Sports Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton hit the market last month when he was non-tendered by the Yankees. His projected arbitration salary wasn\u2019t far above the league minimum, but he had spent the final two months of the season on optional assignment to Triple-A. Hamilton made 36 appearances before being sent down. He pitched 40 innings of 4.28 ERA ball, striking out a quarter of opponents against a worrisome 13.3% walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old righty has pitched parts of six MLB seasons between the White Sox, Twins and Yankees. He had a career-best 2.64 ERA behind a 29% strikeout rate for New York back in 2023. His production hasn\u2019t been as strong over the past couple years. Hamilton\u2019s grounder rates have fallen while the free passes jumped this year. He gets plus swing-and-miss rates on his slider but hasn\u2019t gotten great results on his sinker over the past couple seasons.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves announced the signing of reliever\u00a0Ian Hamilton to a one-year, non-guaranteed contract. Atlanta opened a 40-man roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[18698,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-359068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ian-hamilton","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359068","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=359068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}