BRAVES NEWS

Yesterday, the Braves made 3 signings official, and all 3 men (Jason Grilli, Josh Outman, and A.J. Pierzynski) spoke with the media. Fortunately, the 3 guys seemed genuinely excited to be here in Atlanta, especially Pierzynski who proceeded to exhibit the type of personality and character that's made him a polarizing character around baseball.

"I'll do whatever it takes to help my team win," Pierzynski said. "If you need me to fight the guy, I'll fight the guy. I'll do whatever it takes because I want to win the game. For three hours, I don't care who is pitching [against my team]. Mark Buehrle is one of my good friends. But when we're facing him, I want to kill him. Then afterwards, we'll go out and get a beer."

Yeah, that definitely sounds like something A.J. Pierzynski would say, and we're in January. January!

There was no ham-centered scoop to be had yesterday, as the Braves themselves were the first to announce that they'd signed Josh Outman to a 1-year deal. The LOOGY bounced between 2 teams last season, and while there aren't exactly expectations that he'll come in and light the world on fire, here's hoping that he lives up to his namesake and gets some outs, man. (I'm sorry.)

Of course, with all of these signings made for the Major League club, that meant that someone had to go in order to make room, and that ended up being Tyler Pastornicky, as it appears that his 4-year stint with the Braves organization has come to an end. Pastornicky was never really able to establish himself at the Major League level, and that tends to happen when your slash line is .243/.295/.315 and you aren't that good defensively either. With that being said, I'm willing to bet that he'll probably latch on to another organization and at least have a chance to establish himself there, but for the Braves, this isn't much of a loss.

MLB NEWS

The St. Louis Cardinals already have a decent enough rotation. I mean, you pretty much have to if you want to make it as deep into October as they did last season. However, they realize that 1) There are still a few question marks surrounding most of the rotation and 2) Despite that, they're probably still really close to getting even further into October and they figure that they'll get there by adding either Cole Hamels or David Price via trade or "simply" signing Max Scherzer. From FOX Sports: