{"id":537122,"date":"2026-03-21T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:37:10","slug":"kyle-farmer-dominic-smith-make-atlanta-braves-roster-and-sign-big-league-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537122\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Farmer, Dominic Smith make Atlanta Braves roster and sign big league contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Infielders Kyle Farmer and Dominic Smith have made the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> &#8216; major league roster and signed big league contracts Saturday after attending spring training with minor league deals.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Farmer each have $1.25 million salaries while in major leagues as part of their split contracts, which call for lower salaries if assigned to the minors.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer, 35, batted .227 with a .280 on-base percentage, eight homers, 31 RBIs and no steals in 97 games for the Colorado Rockies. He started games at all four infield positions last year.<\/p>\n<p>He has batted .247 with a .306 on-base percentage, 63 homers and 285 RBIs in 804 career games with the Los Angeles Dodgers (2017-18), Cincinnati Reds (2019-22), Minnesota Twins (2023-24) and Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 30, hit .284 with a .333 on-base percentage, five homers, 33 RBIs and two steals in 63 games for the San Francisco Giants last season while playing primarily first base.<\/p>\n<p>He has hit .250 with a .315 on-base percentage, 69 homers and 292 RBIs in 756 career games with the New York Mets (2017-22), Washington Nationals (2023), Boston Red Sox (2024), Cincinnati Reds (2024) and Giants.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Infielders Kyle Farmer and Dominic Smith have made the Atlanta Braves &#8216; major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,374,2319,1230,4287,2822,2808,9092,681,89142,2323,2326,20993,363,2008,1189,2329,99,2331],"class_list":["post-537122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-dominic-smith","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-ga-state-wire","tag-georgia","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-york-mets","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537122","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=537122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}