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Braves trade reliever Yates to Pirates
Team acquires 22-year-old starter Redmond in return By CARROLL ROGERS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 03/26/08 The Braves have traded reliever Tyler Yates to Pittsburgh for minor-league right-hander Todd Redmond. Yates, 30, had spent most of the last two seasons with the Braves, going 2-5 with a 3.96 ERA in 50 appearances in 2006 and 2-3 with a 5.18 ERA in a career-high 75 ...
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Yates Traded to Pirates
Talking Chop — That's all the story that was just posted on AJC.com said: The Braves have traded right-handed relief pitcher Tyler Yates to Pittsburgh. Good. I'll post more here as we learn what we got in return (if anything). Update [2008-3-26 9:30:23 by ...

Tyler Yates Traded to Pirates for Todd Redmond
Atlanta Braves — ... It’s official: Tyler Yates is no longer a Brave. After a horrendous spring and an extremely mixed couple of years in Atlanta, in which his tantalizing stuff and promise were offset at the worst times by a complete inability to pitch on short rest, or, seemingly, in high-leverage situations, he was traded by Frank Wren yesterday. He was out of options, and it was getting clearer that there wasn’t room for him on the team. So he was shipped off to one of our old favorite punching bags: the Pirates. ...

Braves Trade Tyler Yates for Todd Redmond
FanHouse — ... that Frank Wren had some plans for a transaction or two before the season started, and here's your first one: the Braves sent left handed reliever ...

Tyler Yates shipped to Pittsburgh..
MVN RSS — Because the Braves have a surplus of bullpen arms (though I don’t agree, you can never have too much pitching of any kind) have sent Tyler Yates to the Pirates for Minor League Pitcher Todd Redmond. From what I can gather this trade has made more than a few Braves fans happy. Why? Yes he had a horrible spring, but last year he lead the team in High Leverage Situations out of the pen and did decent in that role. Here’s what the Atlanta Journal Constitution has to say about the arm we got in return for Tyler Yates. Redmond, 22, and a 39th round pick in 2004, has been a starter in ...

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