The Braves have re-signed left-hander Ray Kerr and Royber Salinas to minor league offers, in accordance with the transaction trackers on the pair’s profile pages at MLB.com. In response to that very same supply, the Braves have introduced left-hander Kolton Ingram into the group on a minor league deal.
Kerr and Salinas had been each non-tendered by the Braves previous to final week’s deadline, however the duo will now return to the group as non-roster depth. Kerr started his huge league profession with the Padres and posted strong numbers for San Diego in 2023, with a 4.33 ERA and 4.18 FIP in 27 innings that noticed him strike out a wonderful 30.3% of opponents. That comparatively small pattern of success was sufficient to persuade the Braves to commerce for him final winter, and the membership took on the ultimate 12 months of Matt Carpenter’s underwater contract with San Diego with a view to facilitate the deal. Sadly, Kerr struggled to a 5.64 ERA in 10 early season appearances earlier than present process Tommy John surgical procedure again in June. Now that he’s again with Atlanta, he’ll have the ability to rehab with the group as he eyes a doable second-half comeback in 2025.
As for Salinas, he solely joined the Braves group earlier this month after being claimed off waivers from the A’s. It’s not Salinas’s first stint within the group, nevertheless, as he truly signed out of Venezuela with Atlanta as a global beginner. After spending the primary years of his professional profession with the Braves, Salinas was traded to the A’s as a part of the Sean Murphy deal previous to the 2023 season. The precise-hander’s two 12 months sojourn to Oakland noticed him battle to determine himself within the higher minors. After struggling to a 5.48 ERA in his first style of Double-A motion final 12 months, he noticed improved outcomes (together with a 3.68 ERA) in a repeat of the extent this 12 months however was torched to the tune of seven runs in 6 1/3 frames. Waiting for 2025, Salinas figures to function non-roster depth for the membership’s bullpen, which at present stands to be with out A.J. Minter after the lefty hit free company earlier this month and Joe Jimenez after the right-hander underwent surgical procedure that can trigger him to overlook not less than nearly all of the 2025 marketing campaign.
That position of non-roster depth additionally figures to use to Ingram, who spent the 2024 season shuffling between 4 completely different organizations on the Triple-A stage. In 51 2/3 innings of labor on the stage throughout the associates of the Giants, Mets, Rangers, and Cardinals, Ingram posted a strong 3.66 ERA whereas hanging out 23.7% of opponents. The southpaw obtained his solely huge league publicity in 2023 as a member of the Angels. Whereas he had impressed with a 2.95 ERA on the Double- and Triple-A ranges that 12 months, he was shelled to the tune of an 8.44 ERA in 5 1/3 frames throughout his first cup of espresso within the majors. Now greater than a 12 months faraway from that irritating debut, Ingram figures to search for a possibility to interrupt again into the massive leagues with Atlanta subsequent season.
