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\nThe Atlanta Braves have taken the spot vacated from the trade of closer Craig Kimbrel and given it to minor leaguer Brandon Cunniff.<\/p>\n
\nThe Atlanta Braves have taken the spot vacated from the trade of closer Craig Kimbrel and given it to minor leaguer Brandon Cunniff.<\/p>\n
Cunniff, a right hander, will pitch out of middle relief.<\/p>\n
Last season the 26-year-old spent time split between Single-A Lynchburg and Double-A Mississippi compiling a 1.59 ERA across 42 games. He had a 71\/27 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n
One player acquired in the Kimbrel trade will not be with the Braves. Outfielder Carlos Quentin has been designated for assignment.<\/p>\n
Simply put the 32-year-old did not factor into the Braves plans. He is coming off a season in which he hit .177\/.284\/.315 in 155 plate appearances last season for the San Diego Padres. He will make $8 million this season and has a buyout worth $3 million on his $10 million salary for next season.<\/p>\n
The Braves have also placed left handed pitcher Josh Outman on the 60-day disabled list with a shoulder injury. He will be out for some time after experiencing discomfort in his throwing shoulder. Thus far X-rays and an MRI have given no indication as to exactly what Outman is dealing with.<\/p>\n
Nationals release Mike Carp<\/strong><\/p>\n Days after he failed to make the bench of the Washington Nationals, Mike Carp has been released. Carp rejected a assignment to Triple-A Syracuse and will now attempt to find a new team to take his services to. Odds are that Carp will have to spend a brief stay in the minors regardless of where he lands.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old Carp is coming off a poor 2014 season in which he hit just .175\/.289\/.230 with 13 RBI across 59 games.\/. For his career he is a .254\/.330\/.414 hitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Atlanta Braves have taken the spot vacated from the trade of closer Craig Kimbrel and given it to minor leaguer Brandon Cunniff. Cunniff, a right hander, will pitch out of middle relief. Last season the 26-year-old spent time split between Single-A Lynchburg and Double-A Mississippi compiling a 1.59 ERA across 42 games. He had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,292,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-carlos-quentin","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10142,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions\/10142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}