{"id":41546,"date":"2025-07-28T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41546\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:17:11","slug":"braves-acquire-erick-fedde-from-cardinals-to-reinforce-pitching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41546\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves acquire Erick Fedde from Cardinals to reinforce pitching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2013 With the Atlanta Braves\u2019 entire Opening Day starting rotation on the injured list, they traded for Erick Fedde from the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday to likely fill one of the vacancies for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves didn\u2019t give up anything in the trade for the veteran right-hander, and the Cardinals are sending cash to help cover part of the approximate $2.5 million remaining on his contract. The Cardinals had designated him for assignment last week.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Braves?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Braves<\/a> today acquired RHP Erick Fedde and cash considerations from the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations. To make room on the 40-man roster, Atlanta transferred RHP Grant Holmes to the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Braves (@Braves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Braves\/status\/1949590632579932546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fedde, 32, is 3-10 with a 5.22 ERA in 20 starts, with just 63 strikeouts and 47 walks, along with 14 homers allowed, in 101 2\/3 innings. He\u2019s been particularly ineffective in recent starts, going 0-4 with an alarming 13.25 ERA in his last five starts before the DFA.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta placed Grant Holmes on the 15-day IL after he felt tightness in his elbow during Saturday\u2019s start, then transferred him to the 60-day IL Sunday, meaning his season is over and he\u2019ll consult with doctors about findings from initial tests.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves already had all other members of their season-opening rotation on the 60-day IL: Chris Sale (rib cage fracture), Spencer Schwellenbach (elbow), Reynaldo L\u00f3pez (shoulder surgery) and A.J. Smith-Shawver (Tommy John surgery). Sale could pitch again this season, but Smith-Shawver will not and it\u2019s uncertain whether Schwellenbach or L\u00f3pez will.<\/p>\n<p>Provided Atlanta can help reduce the amount of hard contact, Fedde is built to provide rotation depth. The Cardinals originally acquired Fedde from the Chicago White Sox in an eight-player deal that also saw Tommy Edman and Michael Kopech join the Los Angeles Dodgers during last year\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo: Dilip Vishwanat \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2013 With the Atlanta Braves\u2019 entire Opening Day starting rotation on the injured list, they traded for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,363,99,1231],"class_list":["post-41546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41546","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=41546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}