The Atlanta Braves are designating Alex Verdugo for task to make room for fellow outfielder Jurickson Profar, The Athletic reported Wednesday.
Profar is eligible to return on Wednesday from an 80-game suspension after testing optimistic for a performance-enhancing substance.
Verdugo is batting .239 with zero house runs and 12 RBIs in 56 video games in his first season with the Braves. He signed a one-year deal for $1.5 million in March.
Verdugo, 29, is a profession .270 hitter with 70 homers and 328 RBIs in 856 video games with the Los Angeles Dodgers (2017-19), Boston Crimson Sox (2020-23), New York Yankees (2024) and Braves.
Profar, 32, was suspended with out pay on March 31 for violating the MLB Joint Drug Prevention and Remedy Program. He examined optimistic for the PED chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), in response to the commissioner’s workplace.
After final 12 months’s breakout All-Star season with the San Diego Padres, Profar signed a three-year, $42 million contract with the Braves in January.
Profar performed in 4 video games earlier than the suspension, batting .200 (3-for-15) with two runs scored.
He set profession highs throughout the board in 2024 with a .280 common, 24 homers, 94 runs and 85 RBIs in 158 video games for the Padres.
The Curacao native has a .245 profession common with 111 homers and 444 RBIs in 1,123 video games with the Texas Rangers (2012-13, 2016-18), Athletics (2019), Padres (2020-22, 2023-24), Colorado Rockies (2023) and Braves.
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