{"id":123832,"date":"2025-11-22T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=123832"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:57:50","slug":"report-braves-continue-roster-culling-with-more-departures-at-non-tender-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=123832","title":{"rendered":"Report: Braves continue roster culling with more departures at non-tender deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">The Atlanta Braves did not have any big-time arbitration names ahead of the non-tender deadline, but there were several support players of varying importance that they would have to make decisions on.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves didn&#8217;t waste much time as they gave Vidal Brujan a split contract and then went ahead and agreed to terms with Eli White, Joey Wentz, and Mauricio Dubon on contracts for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>When the dust settled and with just hours until the non-tender deadline, all that they had left was Jose Suarez, Alek Manoah, Carson Ragsdale, and Dylan Lee to sort out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_154,y_0,w_2873,h_1616\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/17\/01kam4pd1t4t7bymt444.jpg\" alt=\"Tampa Bay Rays v Toronto Blue Jays\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">It didn&#8217;t take long for the Braves to sign Suarez to a one-year deal and avoid arbitration which was a bit of a surprise as he felt like a prime non-tender candidate, but he isn&#8217;t expensive and Atlanta needs reliever so&#8230;sure.<\/p>\n<p>Manoah was an odd case as the Braves only just claimed him off waivers at the end of September, he hasn&#8217;t thrown a pitch for the Braves yet, and he has fell on hard times after a very encouraging start to his pro career.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">As for Lee, it is kind of surprising that he didn&#8217;t get locked up pretty early as he has been a mainstay in the bullpen, but there could have been disagreement between the two sides on his actual value which held things up.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">In the end, the Braves decided to non-tender Manoah and Ragsdale. As far as everyone can tell, Lee will be sticking around for 2026.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><em>The #Braves today declined to tender contracts for the 2026 season to RHP Alek Manoah and RHP Carson Ragsdale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Atlanta Braves (@Braves) November 21, 2025<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-5\">Braves ultimately decide to let Alek Manoah and Carson Ragsdale go at non-tender deadline<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">When the Braves claimed Manoah, the hope was that he could give Atlanta some cheap rotation depth in 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>However, he came with risk as Manoah is coming off Tommy John surgery and Toronto felt he was far enough away to DFA him. Ultimately, the decided that he wasn&#8217;t worth the risk and sent him on his way.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">As for Lee, being as inconsistent as he has been made his case a lot more interesting than it needed to be. In 2022 and 2024, Lee was one of the Braves&#8217; better relievers period and a godsend from the left side when Atlanta needed it most.<\/p>\n<p>However, 2023 and 2025 were decidedly more mediocre and it did feel as though he wasn&#8217;t being trusted in high leverage situations as much towards the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">With that, the non-tender deadline is over and done with and that is the last major roster paperwork deadline of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>We now have a good sense of where the roster will stand until trades and additions happen in free agency and it is clear that the Braves have quite a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves keep trimming their roster with the non-tendering of Alek Manoah and Carson Ragsdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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