It's been a long wait but former Demon pitching great Brian Lawrence is back on a track that could return him to the big leagues.
He has signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves organization and will report to their Triple A team in Richmond. With a few good outings, it's reasonable to think the Bravos might bring him up to chew up some innings, especially with the season-ending injury to John Smoltz.
Brian hasn't gotten a lot of chances to return to the bigs since recovering from the 2006 shoulder surgery that foiled his biggest breakthrough contract with the Washington Nationals. Since then, he's been the property of the Colorado Rockies in 2007 spring training, then the New York Mets in June and July of 2007, after impressing everybody with his outings at their Triple-A affiliate (New Orleans). After 3 very good to solid outings with the Mets, he had a couple rough ones and was sent back down. This year he began with Kansas City on a minor league deal, but was cut loose and was looking for a chance when the Braves signed him Monday.
Thanks to Jason Pugh, the eagle-eyed baseball writer for the Shreveport Times, for passing this breaking news along.
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