{"id":528699,"date":"2026-01-20T04:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/528699\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:55:41","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-andruw-jones-hall-of-fame-jorge-mateo-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/528699\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Andruw Jones, Hall of Fame, Jorge Mateo, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2026 Hall of Fame Class will be announced on Tuesday. Several former Braves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-history\/125177\/a-look-at-the-former-atlanta-braves-eligible-for-the-2026-hall-of-fame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on on the ballot for consideration, <\/a>but the one name that likely is being followed the most is Andruw Jones. In his 9th and second to last year of initial eligibility, Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbhoftracker.com\/2025\/11\/2026-bbhof-tracker-summary-and-leaderboard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is projected to have a very good<\/a> shot at finally being inducted. While many in Braves Country have been known for years Jones deserves the honor, we will know if it happens in reality in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Less than a day after learning of the injury to Ha-Seong Kim, the Braves signed utility player Jorge Mateo to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-roster\/125206\/braves-sign-infielder-jorge-mateo-to-one-year-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-year deal. <\/a>He will also be the backup shortstop to Mauricio Dubon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Hall of Fame Class will be announced on Tuesday. Several former Braves on on the ballot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-528699","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-atlanta-braves-news","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115925648923681008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528699","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=528699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}