{"id":511930,"date":"2026-01-08T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/511930\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:04:17","slug":"braves-ken-waldichuk-grabbed-off-waivers-by-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/511930\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Ken Waldichuk: Grabbed off waivers by Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ATL\/atlanta-braves\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/315.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atlanta claimed <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/26671992\/waldichuk\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waldichuk<\/a> off waivers from the Athletics on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Waldichuk was sidelined for a year-and-a-half following Tommy John surgery and posted an 8.65 ERA, 2.06 WHIP and 64:42 K:BB across 51 innings with Triple-A Las Vegas in 2025 after returning. The lefty boasts a career 33.9 percent strikeout rate in the minors and has minor-league options remaining, so it&#8217;s not a surprise he didn&#8217;t pass through waivers. Waldichuk will likely begin 2026 in the Triple-A Gwinnett rotation.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta claimed Waldichuk off waivers from the Athletics on Thursday. Waldichuk was sidelined for a year-and-a-half following Tommy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,28,7145,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-511930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-fantasy-baseball","14":"tag-ken-waldichuk","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115861511740629302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}