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By Jon Paul Hoornstra
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The Atlanta Braves signed Sean Reid-Foley to a minor league contract. The right-handed pitcher had spent parts of the last five seasons with the division rival New York Mets, but finished the 2025 season in the Arizona Diamondbacks' system.
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Reid-Foley was 1-2 with an 8.36 ERA in 15 relief appearances with the Triple-A Syracuse Mets when he was released from his minor league contract in May 2025. In 16 games with the Reno Aces, the D-backs' Triple-A affiliate, Reid-Foley went 0-1 with a 5.79 ERA.
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From 2021-24, Reid-Foley went 3-4 with a 3.75 ERA in 50 games out of the Mets' bullpen. His time on the mound was interrupted by injuries to his elbow and shoulder, most notably a partially torn right UCL that required surgery in May 2022.
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Reid-Foley, 30, was a consensus Top-100 prospect in baseball when he was a Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguer in 2017. The Jays selected him in the second round of the 2014 MLB Draft out of high school. By 2018, he had reached the big leagues.
In three seasons with Toronto, Reid-Foley went 5-8 with a 4.40 ERA in 21 games (13 starts). Since he was traded to the Mets in January 2021, along with Josh Winckowski and Yennsy Diaz in the deal that sent Steven Matz to Toronto, injuries have impeded Reid-Foley from fulfilling his potential.
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The minor league contract represents a low-risk signing for the Braves, who missed the postseason altogether in 2025 for the first time since 2017. Atlanta rattled off six straight NL East titles the beginning in 2018, winning the World Series in 2021.
Relief pitching was hardly the Braves' only concern last year, but they allowed more inherited runners to score (39 percent) than any other MLB team.
If Reid-Foley intends to help, he'll need to cut down on the high walk rate (33 in 28 Triple-A innings) he showed in the minors last year. So far, so good: in 14 games in the Mexican Winter League, Reid-Foley has allowed five walks while striking out 18 batters for Hermosillo.
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