{"id":124139,"date":"2025-11-23T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=124139"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:22:21","slug":"%e2%9a%a1-report-atlanta-braves-make-big-move-signing-29%e2%80%91year%e2%80%91old-free-agent-outfielder-from-phillies-a-game%e2%80%91changer-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=124139","title":{"rendered":"\u26a1 REPORT: Atlanta Braves Make Big Move, Signing 29\u2011Year\u2011Old Free Agent Outfielder From Phillies\u2014A Game\u2011Changer in the Making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves landed some organizational depth on Saturday from the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves signed free agent outfielder Brewer Hicklen, according to Aram Leighton.<\/p>\n<p>Hicklen spent the end of the 2025 season in the Phillies&#8217; system, although he didn&#8217;t get to the majors with Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>He had begun the 2025 campaign with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, Hicklen went to the Tigers just before the season started in a deal from the Milwaukee Brewers (yes, Brewer was a Brewer).<\/p>\n<p>Hicklen will turn 30 before the next season gets underway. He has played in 10 MLB games in his career.<\/p>\n<p>At the MLB level, Hicklen is 2-for-12 with two stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>He has played 410 career games in Triple-A. At that highest level of the minor leagues, Hicklen has batted .240 with a .464 slugging percentage while also stealing 125 bases.<\/p>\n<p>He likely won&#8217;t have a big role in Atlanta, but he&#8217;s a solid depth piece. Teams like him just enough to keep adding him, but not quite enough to keep him around. Maybe this will be the time that Hicklen finds a way to stick around.<\/p>\n<h2>More news:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Florida&#8217;s 7-foot-9 Olivier Rioux scored his first college point<\/li>\n<li>Chris Paul announces his NBA retirement plans<\/li>\n<li>Nation&#8217;s longest high school winning streak snapped at 76 games<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to Steven Adams, the Rockets are on pace to break an all-time NBA record<\/li>\n<li>Shedeur Sanders can break a 17-QB Browns nightmare streak<\/li>\n<li>Blackhawks&#8217; 1st-round pick just led his high school football team to a state title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta is adding to its organizational depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":124140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124139","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u26a1 REPORT: Atlanta Braves Make Big Move, Signing 29\u2011Year\u2011Old Free Agent Outfielder From Phillies\u2014A Game\u2011Changer in the Making? 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