{"id":522957,"date":"2026-01-16T05:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:12:53","slug":"braves-trade-wisely-waldichuk-to-rays-for-ptbnl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522957\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves trade Wisely, Waldichuk to Rays for PTBNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays acquired infielder Brett Wisely and left-hander Ken Waldichuk from the Atlanta Braves on Monday in exchange for cash considerations or a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Waldichuk was designated for assignment on Saturday to clear a roster spot when the Braves signed right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/braves-kinley-contract-7253e8058aa23e92b45eb37fe3bc8cd7?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/braves-kinley-contract-7253e8058aa23e92b45eb37fe3bc8cd7?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\">Tyler Kinley<\/a> to a $4.25 million, one-year contract that includes a 2027 club option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wisely, 26, had no hits and three walks in nine plate appearances with Atlanta in 2025. He returns to his original organization after being a 15th-round draft pick by Tampa Ray in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Waldichuk, 28, was a combined 6-11 with a 5.28 ERA in the 2022 and 2023 seasons with Oakland, and has no other major league experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WANF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays acquired infielder Brett Wisely and left-hander Ken Waldichuk from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,9752,1738,69424,69423,69422,7145,69420,67692,69421,69419,4],"class_list":["post-522957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-braves-on-gray","tag-brett-wisely","tag-brett-wisely-braves","tag-brett-wisely-rays","tag-brett-wisely-stats","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-ken-waldichuk-baseball","tag-ken-waldichuk-braves","tag-ken-waldichuk-stats","tag-ken-waldichuk-trade","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115903070433532469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522957","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=522957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}