{"id":637826,"date":"2026-03-22T21:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:39:20","slug":"kyle-farmer-and-dominic-smith-make-atlanta-braves-roster-and-sign-big-league-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637826\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Farmer and Dominic Smith make Atlanta Braves roster and sign big league contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infielders Kyle Farmer and Dominic Smith have made the Atlanta Braves &#8216; major league roster and signed big league contracts Saturday after attending spring training with minor league deals.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Farmer each have $1.25 million salaries while in major leagues as part of their split contracts, which call for lower salaries if assigned to the minors.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer, 35, batted .227 with a .280 on-base percentage, eight homers, 31 RBIs and no steals in 97 games for the Colorado Rockies. He started games at all four infield positions last year.<\/p>\n<p>He has batted .247 with a .306 on-base percentage, 63 homers and 285 RBIs in 804 career games with the Los Angeles Dodgers (2017-18), Cincinnati Reds (2019-22), Minnesota Twins (2023-24) and Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 30, hit .284 with a .333 on-base percentage, five homers, 33 RBIs and two steals in 63 games for the San Francisco Giants last season while playing primarily first base.<\/p>\n<p>He has hit .250 with a .315 on-base percentage, 69 homers and 292 RBIs in 756 career games with the New York Mets (2017-22), Washington Nationals (2023), Boston Red Sox (2024), Cincinnati Reds (2024) and Giants.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infielders Kyle Farmer and Dominic Smith have made the Atlanta Braves &#8216; major league roster and signed big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[46,5,48,535,50,4259,52,57,19,60,2125,4,61,536,66,185,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-637826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-reds","13":"tag-cincinnatireds","14":"tag-colorado-rockies","15":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-minnesota-twins","18":"tag-minor-league-baseball","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-new-york-mets","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-san-francisco-giants","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116274998162781749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637826","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=637826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}