Overview
- Agent Steve Rath confirmed on Nov. 11 that the 31-year-old is retiring from professional baseball.
- Atlanta declined Fletcher’s $8 million club option for next season and paid a $1.5 million buyout.
- After moving to the mound with a knuckleball in the Braves’ system, he logged 23 appearances (18 starts) for about 101 innings with a 6.42 ERA and 42 strikeouts, including a strikeout of top prospect Jackson Holliday in May 2024.
- Fletcher finished with a .276 career average, 560 hits and 10.3 bWAR across 539 MLB games for the Angels and Braves.
- A sixth-round pick who signed a five-year, $26 million extension with the Angels in 2021, he was later traded to Atlanta with Max Stassi for Evan White and Tyler Thomas and appeared in five MLB games for the Braves.