The Braves re-signed veteran righty Carlos Carrasco to a minor league contract after designating him for assignment last week, as first indicated on the transaction log at MiLB.com. Carrasco cleared waivers, briefly elected free agency, and now returns on a new minor league where he’ll serve as a depth arm for an injury-plagued Braves staff. Carrasco will head to Triple-A Gwinnett for the time being.
Carrasco opened the season with the Yankees after signing a minor league deal in the winter. He was roughed up for a 5.91 ERA in eight games (six starts) before being removed from the Yankees’ 40-man roster. He stuck around with their Triple-A club until an Atlanta team that was desperate for innings after a series of rotation injuries acquired Carrasco for cash prior to the trade deadline.
The 38-year-old Carrasco tossed a quality start against the Reds on deadline day but was tagged for six runs in 5 2/3 frames his next time out and six more runs in just two innings in his third start with the Braves. He wound up pitching 13 2/3 innings overall and logging a 9.88 ERA during his brief run with Atlanta. Combined with his earlier Yankees struggles, Carrasco has limped to a 7.09 ERA in 45 2/3 innings this season.
Carrasco made 29 solid starts for the 2022 Mets (3.97 ERA, 152 innings) but has now struggled greatly in three consecutive major league seasons. He’s pitched 239 1/3 MLB frames dating back to 2023 but logged only a 6.36 earned run average as his velocity, strikeout rate, walk rate and home run rate have all trended in the wrong direction.
The Atlanta rotation currently includes Spencer Strider, Erick Fedde, Bryce Elder, Hurston Waldrep and Joey Wentz, although Chris Sale is on the mend and expected to return soon. Sale tossed 56 pitches over four innings of one-run ball in his second Triple-A rehab start yesterday. He’s been out since mid-June due to fractures in his ribcage.
& Jesse Chavez out of retirement
I was expecting Jesse Chavez again
Nice signing! Great depth!
They need to bring Jesse back in September for a Jesse Chavez Appreciation Day. Send him out to retirement on a good note, and hire him as a coach.
With a bobblehead featuring him carrying his luggage.
This is the best comment here. I came for Jesse jokes and I wasn’t gypped.
The new Jesse Chavez
Very disappointing that he didn’t get to come home to Cleveland this past weekend. We love Cookie and our offense could have used a little BP
You don’t know much about baseball, do you?
Like I said…
Marlins are building a pretty good team pretty quickly and reinforcements are on the way.
Braves have a poor farm system and they lack depth. Marlins could win more games than the Braves in 2026.
The Braves system is thin, but they always seem to have at least one ROY candidate. They also have a relatively young core that’s under contract for several more years. They certainly don’t suck. This year was a perfect storm for the rotation. They will contend again next year.
Not a surprise that a couple of Met fans keep trolling Braves articles on the site. Odd not to see Mets Era Soto not joining in though. Maybe he’s in hiding.
Nashville, Im going to find it funny when the Mets miss the playoffs too and we get to hear the excuses from these Met trolls.
It’s been a truly strange season for the Braves. Imagine the shape of the organization if they hadn’t fleeced the A’s in the Matt Olson and Sean Murphy trades?
Langeliers is a really good player.
Contreras is a pretty good player.
Ya might want to rethink your position.
Murphy and Olson cost over $200 Million.
Ya think so?
Sure, but more than likely they’d have either Langeliers/William Contreras still within the organization. I wonder if they had Langeliers as starting C, if they would have tried to transition Contreras to 1B, knowing his bat played well even then. If ATL didn’t have the perfect replacement for Freeman in Olson (hometown kid, his agent was Chipper’s agent/BFF knowing more than likely you’d get an extension, etc.) I doubt they would have gone outside the organization first.
A bi-product of those trades is it really trimmed the fat, as we see a bunch of those names not even with their respective teams (Pache, Cusick, etc.)
Re-sign or resign? Braves should just resign from baseball this season
Reminds me of when Mike Golic announced Colin Powell had re-signed with the Bush administration.
C’mon Theo. A White Sox fan can’t make that joke. Have to cross your fingers if you do.
You’re not wrong Jeff
Heh. Misery loves company.
You were sayin?
Class action? Can I join? I want money from ABC (Atlanta Braves Corporation).
Once we get a new manager we’ll be much better
Sue them for what??
Boycott’s alluding to the team name. Read his garbage posts on here. You’ll get his schtick. Here’s a hint: His screen name used to be rachelmaddowishot..