The Braves are poised to acquire left-hander from the Angels, according to a report from . According to , right-hander is headed to Anaheim in exchange for Suarez. Suarez, 27, signed with the Angels out of Venezuela and made his pro debut back in 2015. Hes spent his entire career in an Angels uniform to this point and first made it to the majors in 2019. The early days of his big league career werent exactly inspiring, as he carried a career 7.99 ERA in 83 1/3 innings through the end of the 2020 season with a 9.5% walk rate against a lackluster 18.6% strikeout rate. Things turned around in a big way for the southpaw come 2021, however, and settled in to become a quality swing man for Anaheim. He pitched 98 1/3 innings that year in the majors split between 14 starts and nine relief appearances, and he was generally impre sive by the results in those outings with a 3.75 ERA (119 Wilt Chamberlain Jersey ERA+) with a 4.12 FIP. That succe s carried over into the 2022 campaign, where Suarez was utilized as a more traditional back-of-the-rotation starter. He made 20 starts (and two relief appearances) for the Angels at the big league level that year, and pitched solidly enough with a roughly league average 3.96 ERA and a roughly matching 3.91 FIP. After posting succe sful seasons in back-to-back years, it seemed likely that the Angels would be relying on Suarez to serve as a back-end starter of swingman for years to come. Thats not how things have transpired, however, as the lefty has been nothing short of disastrous over the past two seasons. In 86 innings of work since the start of the 2023 campaign, Suarez has struggled to a 6.91 ERA in 33 appearances, ten of which were starts. After striking out 21.5% of opponents and walking 7.9% from 2021 to 22, the past two seasons have seen Suarezs walk rate balloon to 11.6% while his strikeout rate has ticked down to 20.7%. He also began to give up increasingly dangerous contact, as his barrel rate ballooned from 7.4% in his succe sful years to 9.7% over the past two seasons. Thats led him to allow 17 homers in those 86 innings of work, more than he surrendered in either 2021 or 22 despite pitching more innings in both of those seasons. Suarez even found himself outrighted to the minors for much of last year, though he was added back to the clubs 40-man roster in September and remained there throughout the offseason. Now, however, hell head to Atlanta in hopes that a change of scenery can help get his career back on track. For the Angels, the move to part ways with Suarez comes on the heels of a mixed showing in camp where he struggled to a 6.55 ERA but struck out 25.5% of opponents while walking 9.8%. For Atlanta, hell offer another left-handed bullpen option who can be deployed in the middle innings, allowing and to be used more exclusively in high leverage situations. Going the other way is Anderson, another reclamation project without options remaining. The right-hander, 27 in May, received NL Rookie of the Year votes in both the 2020 and 2021 seasons as he pitched to a combined 3.25 ERA with a 24.5% strikeout rate and 3.80 FIP in 30 starts during the regular season before adding an incredible 1.26 ERA in eight postseason starts to his resume over the course of those two years. That performance appeared likely to make Anderson a likely fixture of the Atlanta rotation going forward, but things took a turn for the worse in 2022 when he struggled to a 5.00 ERA (despite a 4.25 FIP) in 22 starts before he eventually went under the knife early in the 2023 campaign, undergoing Tommy John surgery. Anderson mi sed the entire 2023 season while rehabbing and made 15 starts in the minor leagues last year as he got back up to speed, though his 3.44 ERA in 68 minor league innings did not lead to a return to the majors. The right-hander appeared likely to be part of the clubs rotation to start the season with ticketed for the injured list entering camp, but despite a 2.65 ERA in 17 innings this spring Andersons camp raised concerns as he walked an eye-popping 18 opponents, or 24% of his total batters faced. With Anderson no longer in the fold, it seems likely the fifth starter job will instead go to to open the season. Meanwhile, the Angels seem likely to utilize Anderson in a long relief role, though its at least po sible he could get a look in the rotation if begins the season at Triple-A. Jeremy Lin Jersey