{"id":11691,"date":"2019-11-04T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11691"},"modified":"2019-11-04T16:35:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:35:58","slug":"braces-sign-markakis-and-flowers-part-with-tegeran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/11\/04\/braces-sign-markakis-and-flowers-part-with-tegeran\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign Markakis and Flowers, part with Teheran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6256-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11690\" width=\"364\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6256-1.jpg 364w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6256-1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/>ATLANTA \u2013 The Atlanta Braves today signed C Tyler Flowers and OF Nick Markakis to one-year contracts after declining both players\u2019 team options for the 2020 season. The club also declined RHP Julio Teheran\u2019s team option for 2020, declined a mutual option for OF Billy Hamilton and tendered 3B Josh Donaldson a qualifying offer.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers, 33, signed a one-year, $4 million contract for 2020. The native of Roswell, Ga., hit .229 (62-for-271) with 11 home runs, 34 RBI and a .733 OPS in 85 games for the Braves last season. Flowers joined the Braves in December of 2015, signing a two-year contract. He agreed to a one-year extension with a club option for 2020 on August 28, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Markakis, 35, signed a one-year, $4 million contract for 2020. The outfielder batted .285 (118-for-414) with nine home runs, 62 RBI and a .776 OPS in 116 games for the Braves last season, his fifth with the club. He originally joined the team in 2015 after signing a four-year contract, and agreed to a one-year deal with a team option last offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Donaldson, 33, hit .259 (142-for-549) with 37 home runs, 94 RBI and a .900 OPS in 155 games, while being named a finalist for the Rawlings Gold Glove award at third base. He has 10 days to accept or reject the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Teheran, 28, went 10-11 with a 3.81 ERA (74 ER\/174.2 IP) in 33 starts last season. The righty spent his entire nine-year major league career with the Braves, compiling a 77-73 record with a 3.67 ERA (554 ER\/1,360.0 IP) in 229 games, 226 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, 29, joined the Braves from Kansas City in August last season, and appeared in 26 games for the Braves, hitting .268 (11-for-41) with four stolen bases. Hamilton had a mutual option for the 2020 season, which he exercised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2013 The Atlanta Braves today signed C Tyler Flowers and OF Nick Markakis to one-year contracts after declining both players\u2019 team options for the 2020 season. The club also declined RHP Julio Teheran\u2019s team option for 2020, declined a mutual option for OF Billy Hamilton and tendered 3B Josh Donaldson a qualifying offer. Flowers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,988,464,501,712,264],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-josh-donaldson","10":"tag-julio-teheran","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-nick-markakis","13":"tag-tyler-flowers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11694,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions\/11694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11691"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}