{"id":417874,"date":"2026-06-19T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=417874"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:02:20","slug":"braves-acquire-joey-bart-from-pirates-for-hunter-stratton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/braves-acquire-joey-bart-from-pirates-for-hunter-stratton\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves acquire Joey Bart from Pirates for Hunter Stratton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ATLANTA &#8212; The Braves acquired catcher Joey Bart from the Pittsburgh Pirates for right-handed pitcher Hunter Stratton on Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlanta made room for Bart on the 40-man roster by designating catcher Sandy Le\u00f3n for assignment. The Pirates assigned Stratton to Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bart was batting .259 with two homers, six RBIs and a .670 OPS in 21 games with Pittsburgh. He grew up in the Atlanta suburbs and played college ball in the city at Georgia Tech before being selected No. 2 by the San Francisco Giants in the 2018 amateur draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NL East-leading Braves (46-27) already have two fine catchers in 2025 NL Rookie of the Year Drake Baldwin and 2023 All-Star Sean Murphy, but Murphy is on the 60-day injured list with a broken finger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stratton appeared in one game with the Braves this year and pitched a scoreless inning. He played for the Pirates from 2023 to 2025 before getting traded to Atlanta last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le\u00f3n was batting .091 with zero RBIs in 21 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; The Braves acquired catcher Joey Bart from the Pittsburgh Pirates for right-handed pitcher Hunter Stratton on Thursday night. Atlanta made room for Bart on the 40-man roster by designating catcher Sandy Le\u00f3n for assignment. The Pirates assigned Stratton to Triple-A Indianapolis. Bart was batting .259 with two homers, six RBIs and a .670 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417875,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417874\/revisions\/417875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}