{"id":635128,"date":"2026-03-21T08:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:26:55","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-rowdy-tellez-signing-roster-cuts-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635128\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Rowdy Tellez signing, roster cuts, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was reported Friday evening that the Atlanta Braves inked a minor league <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/127761\/braves-sign-rowdy-tellez-to-milb-deal-per-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deal with first baseman Rowdy Tellez<\/a>. The 31-year-old is set to enter his ninth MLB season. He split the 2025 campaign between the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers, where he combined for a .228 batting average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In his career, Tellez owns a .234 average and has logged 4,523 innings at first base, posting a .995 fielding percentage defensively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s not a headline-grabbing move for Atlanta, but Tellez provides some experienced depth at first base and could prove to be a serviceable option if needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The camp roster now stands at 36 after several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/127745\/braves-trim-roster-option-dylan-dodd-reassign-jr-ritchie-four-others\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reassignments<\/a> on Friday. Most notably, prospect JR Ritchie was reassigned to minor league camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chris Sale was named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/127722\/chris-sale-named-braves-opening-day-starter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opening Day starter<\/a> for the matchup with the Kansas City Royals next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was reported Friday evening that the Atlanta Braves inked a minor league deal with first baseman Rowdy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-635128","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\/116266220802659807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635128","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=635128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}