{"id":10559,"date":"2015-12-31T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2015-12-31T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T19:45:03","slug":"braves-sign-alex-torres-and-kyle-kendrick-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/12\/31\/braves-sign-alex-torres-and-kyle-kendrick-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign Alex Torres and Kyle Kendrick to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10560\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/alextorres.jpg\" alt=\"alextorres\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/alextorres.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/alextorres-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Braves have made adding arms a priority this winter. Recent additions of Kyle Kendrick and Alex Torres will provide the team with additional depth and potential trade deadline pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick had a largely\u00a0forgettable season with the Rockies last season compiling a 6.32 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP in 142 1\/3 innings giving up a league leading 33 home runs in the process.<\/p>\n<p>While the Braves will not ticket Kendrick for the rotation to start the season it is almost certain that he will make a few starts for the team in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The other signing, Torres, offers the Braves some bullpen depth. Torres spent last season with the Mets after coming over in a trade from the Padres. Of course Torres is probably best know by many as the pitcher who has worn the protective cap in lieu of the traditional one.<\/p>\n<p>Torres is a left hander but has typically pitched better against right handed batters. He had a 3.15 ERA in 34 1\/3 innings for the Mets last season before being sent outright to Triple-A in August.<\/p>\n<p>If Torres is going to last in the Braves bullpen he will have to lower his walks, he allowed 26 last season to 35 strike outs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pb\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves have made adding arms a priority this winter. Recent additions of Kyle Kendrick and Alex Torres will provide the team with additional depth and potential trade deadline pieces. Kendrick had a largely\u00a0forgettable season with the Rockies last season compiling a 6.32 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP in 142 1\/3 innings giving up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[981,28,899,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-torres","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-kyle-kendrick","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559","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=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10561,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions\/10561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}