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Atlanta Braves Sign Catcher Isaias Tejeda

By Jeff Schafer

May 27, 2016; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Ball and glove on the field during batting practice prior MLB game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays the at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports
May 27, 2016; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Ball and glove on the field during batting practice prior MLB game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays the at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports /
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Braves Sign Catcher Independent Ball Catcher Tejeda

The York Revolution, an independent ball club with no affiliation to a Major League ball team, has announced that the Atlanta Braves have signed Isaias Tejeda. The 24-year-old catcher, outfielder and corner infielder has a professional history as he signed with the New York Yankees in September 2009 until he was released in January of 2016.

Between Single-A and Double-A in 2015, Tejeda played 29 games at third base, 20 games at catcher and 18 games at first base.  He hit .277/.313/.381 with five home runs, 18 doubles, 42 RBIs and 10 stolen bases.  He had 51 strikeouts and 17 walks last year.

In 2014, he made the mid-season Low Single-A All-Star team.  As a 19-year-old in 2011, he had an OPS of .965 between rookie ball and Staten Island and that got folks talking.

On January 25, 2016, the Yankees cut ties with Tejeda.  Not signing with a pro ball team, he signed with the York Revolution based out of York, Pennsylvania.  The Revolution is in the Freedom Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

The Revolution began playing baseball in York in 2007 and Tejeda becomes the 35th player in Revolution history to be signed by a major league organization.  A couple notable alumni’s that have played on the Revolution is Tike Redman in 2007, Scott Rice in 2011 and Ian Thomas in 2012.  Yup, that Ian Thomas.  The Braves signed him in 2012 and he made his MLB debut in 2014.

In his first season in the Atlantic League in 2016, Tejeda and the Revs were off to a 32-25 record and he was hitting .351 with six home runs and 23 RBIs.  Tejeda had the second-highest batting average in the entire Atlantic League.

“I want to sign with (an affiliated team in) pro ball,”  Tejeda said earlier this year.  “I want to keep playing and see what happens.  I’ve been doing what I know how to do, which is play baseball — that’s it.” (source York Daily Record)

To translate Tejeda from the tweet below, “Perhaps even I can not reach my goal but I’m closer than I was before”

Will Tejeda be anything we should look out for?  Probably not much more than a minor league catching depth.

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Could this be a trickle down effect though?  Possible.  Just speculating here, but maybe the Braves send Joseph Odom up to Mississippi and Willians Astudillo up to Gwinnett.  Meaning Tejeda to the Carolina Mudcats.  Please don’t quote me on that, just thinking and typing.

The Braves do have a couple ties here that could have led to this signing.  In Atlanta’s current front office and scouting team are a lot of the former employees of the Yankees organization.  And Hunter Cervenka was released by the Cubs on June 12th and then signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.  After only eight games with Sugar Land, the Braves signed Cervenka.

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