{"id":516470,"date":"2026-01-12T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/516470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:33:44","slug":"braves-claim-lhp-ken-waldichuk-off-waivers-from-athletics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/516470\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves claim LHP Ken Waldichuk off waivers from Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) &#8211; The Braves claimed left-hander Ken Waldichuk off waivers from the Athletics, the team said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The left-hander spent all of 2025 in the minors, racking up an 8.65 ERA in 51 innings with Triple-A Las Vegas. 2025 was his return to professional baseball after he missed 2024 because of Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old has a 5.28 ERA over 175.2 innings in the major leagues, good for a 78 ERA+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Braves will pay Waldichuk $825,000 in 2026. This year is the first of four arbitration-eligible seasons, giving the Braves plenty of control over the left-hander. The hope is that new pitching coach Jeremy Hefner can revitalize Waldichuk, turning him into a serviceable bullpen or back-end rotation piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BRAVES OFFSEASON COVERAGE:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 WANF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) &#8211; The Braves claimed left-hander Ken Waldichuk off waivers from the Athletics, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,19637,58907,34005,67695,44026,7272,67696,7145,67692,67693,67694,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-516470","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-braves-news","14":"tag-braves-pitching-coach","15":"tag-braves-roster","16":"tag-braves-staff","17":"tag-braves-transactions","18":"tag-jeremy-hefner","19":"tag-jeremy-hefner-braves","20":"tag-ken-waldichuk","21":"tag-ken-waldichuk-braves","22":"tag-ken-waldichuk-dfa","23":"tag-ken-waldichuk-dfad","24":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115881443557455185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516470","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=516470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}