{"id":79312,"date":"2024-07-08T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T01:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=79312"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T01:21:27","slug":"braves-sign-eddie-rosario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/08\/braves-sign-eddie-rosario\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Taking a Flyer on Former NLCS MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2021 was a magical year for the Atlanta Braves, a year many fans will never forget. From being under .500, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/acunaro01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.<\/a> tearing his ACL, and a flurry of trade deadline moves, it was truly a special year. You wouldn\u2019t be able to write the story of the Braves World Series run without mentioning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosared01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eddie Rosario<\/a>. The 2021 NLCS MVP had a series to remember against the Los Angeles Dodgers, hitting .560 with 14 hits and three home runs. Of course, you can&#8217;t forget the home run in Game Six that sealed the Braves&#8217; ticket to the World Series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/postseason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#postseason<\/a> \u2b50\ufe0f is born. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQusDJbojF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rQusDJbojF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1452089157816303621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Braves Bring Back Eddie Rosario<\/h2>\n<p>The first half of this season, however, has not been one for the 32-year-old to remember. After Atlanta declined the $9 million club option for the 2024 season, Rosario hit the free agency market. Rosario ended up signing a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/06\/eddie-rosario-washington-nationals\/\" target=\"_self\">minor league contract<\/a> with the Washington Nationals late in the spring, inking a $2 million deal with the potential of it becoming a $4 million deal with incentives. After a subpar performance this season, the Nationals ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/01\/washington-nationals-designate-eddie-rosario\/\" target=\"_self\">designating<\/a> Rosario for assignment. He hit only .183\/.226\/.329 with seven home runs over 235 plate appearances. Once he cleared waivers on July 1st, the Braves signed Rosario to a minor league deal on July 5th.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Eddie Rosario has signed a Minor League deal with the Braves and will report to Gwinnett tonight<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/1809262597004296577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Need For Outfield Depth<\/h3>\n<p>Outside of the obvious injuries that the Atlanta Braves have in their outfield this season, there has been no shortage of underperformance as well. Other than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kelenja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jarred Kelenic<\/a>, Atlanta has not had any <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/04\/braves-outfielder-starting-heat-up\/\" target=\"_self\">meaningful performances<\/a> from the corner outfielders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duvalad01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Duvall<\/a> has a .134 average this season against right-handed pitching and hit his first home run this past Sunday against a right-handed pitcher. While Duvall has strung together a couple of multi-hit games recently, the overall season numbers are alarming.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta has been rotating out Triple-A players in left field recently with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wallfo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forrest Wall<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/whiteel04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eli White<\/a>. With the addition of Rosario, the Braves will be able to have options for now against right-handed pitchers. With the trade deadline approaching later this month, Alex Anthopoulos will have decisions to make once again for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/08\/braves-outfield-trade-rumors\/\" target=\"_self\">outfield depth<\/a>. Braves fans are going to hope that their 2021 trade deadline move pans out again for a playoff run in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 was a magical year for the Atlanta Braves, a year many fans will never forget. From being under .500, to Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. tearing his ACL, and a flurry of trade deadline moves, it was truly a special year. You wouldn\u2019t be able to write the story of the Braves World Series run without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5183,"featured_media":79355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1071,35],"tags":[130,661,4680,28396,1992,38],"class_list":["post-79312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-braves","category-mlb","category-news","tag-adam-duvall","tag-eddie-rosario","tag-eli-white","tag-forrest-wall","tag-jarred-kelenic","tag-washington-nationals"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}