The Atlanta Braves and Tampa Bay Rays worked out a trade Thursday evening that sent Willy Aybar and Chase Fontaine to the Rays, and in exchange the Rays sent reliever Jeff Ridgway to the Braves.
Ayber got hurt when he first started playing for the Braves and never really got into the rotation of players. He will get a new chance down in Tampa Bay and I think it will work out very well for him.
Fontaine, the Braves’ second-round selection in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, hit .288 with three homers in 95 games with Class A Rome this past season. This earned the 22-year-old infielder a late-season promotion to High A Myrtle Beach, where he hit .205 in just 22 games.
As for Ridgway, he will definately add some depth to the Braves bullpen which was surely needed. Ridgway is a 27 year old lefty that appeared in 57 games in Triple A last year and compiled a 3.06 ERA. We will see what happens with him in the bullpen for the Atlanta Braves.
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