Atlanta and Cleveland Trade

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In their second trade in recent days, the Braves and Indians would like to announce the following deal:

Cleveland sends:
Albers, Matt 2018 / 0.5 2019 / UFA
Liriano, Francisco 2018 / 0.5 2019 / UFA
Ellsbury, Jacoby 2018 / 2.35 2019 / 2.35 2020 / 2.35 2021 / 2.35
Soriano, Jose 0.6 Minor league 
Danner, Hagen 0.2 Minor league
Chirinos, Roberto 0.2 Minor league

Atlanta sends:

Hamels, Cole 2018 / 15.5 2019 / TO 20
Braves to pay 50% of Hamels salary

We wanted to bolster our pitching depth and despite his advancing years, Hamels can definitely play a role for us in 2018.

Thanks to the Braves for the deal. 

[Atlanta Braves]

Hamels has been pitching pretty well lately and had some games with big strikeout totals. In our recent decision to rebuild, he was an obvious trade candidate as he is near the end of his career.

We take some dead weight on in the deal in Albers and Ellsbury to help make the deal work money wise and we get some a few prospects that are lottery tickets hoping I hit on one or more.

Thanks for the deal Indians!

[Milwaukee Brewers]

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