...Atlanta's way.With their NL wild-card lead dwindling, the Braves mustered only two hits against former teammate Javier Vazquez and lost Wednesday to the Florida Marlins, 4-0.Atlanta's lead the NL wild-card race shrank when St. Louis...
...second run in the inning with a groundout.Cabrera, acquired from the New York Yankees in an off-season trade for Javier Vazquez, raised his batting average to .210 by going 2 for 4.Hinske made it 3-0 when he homered to right-center leading...
...rumors after the team re-signed Tim Hudson, leaving the Braves with six starters. Lowe stayed in Atlanta when Javier Vazquez was traded to the New York Yankees.Manager Bobby Cox could have picked Jair Jurrjens, Tommy Hanson or Hudson for...
...former Yankees outfielder in December when it acquired Melky Cabrera in a five-player deal that sent right-hander Javier Vazquez to the World Series champions.Nate McLouth is set as Atlanta's starter in center field, and is the probable leadoff...
...500,000 bonus after the 2012 season. The Braves now have six starters under contract for next season: Hudson, Javier Vazquez , Jair Jurrjens , Tommy Hanson , Derek Lowe and Kenshin Kawakami . Jurrjens (14-10, 2.60 ERA) and Hanson...
...more than $1.6 billion after that trying to regain glory, falling short with infamous flops such as Kevin Brown, Javier Vazquez and Carl Pavano. But last offseason the Yankees got smart, adding a trio of top free agents - Teixeira, Sabathia...
...delicately, but the choice of Hanson was clearly the right one: He went 11-4 with a 2.89 ERA in 21 starts. Throw in Javier Vazquez, who went 15-10 with the NL's sixth-best ERA (2.87) and second-most strikeouts (238 in 219 1-3 innings...
...in his chair, his post-game victory cigar lit and watched a game on television. Just minutes after he watched Javier Vazquez throw a complete game to keep his Atlanta Braves' flickering wild card hopes alive, Cox was rooting for the St...
ATLANTA --- Javier Vazquez outpitched an ailing Pedro Martinez, and the Atlanta Braves survived a shaky ninth inning to snap Philadelphia's six-game...
ST. LOUIS --- Javier Vazquez doesn't think he was ever this efficient. Vazquez needed just 94 pitches to shut down the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Atlanta...