As a man with a long beard, I am really in love with Jake Fraley’s beard. We have a similar hair color, but mine doesn’t come in quite as full as his. It’s really a magnificent beard. I probably need to try rounding mine out a bit more and see if that helps.

Oh, baseball. Right.

It feels hard to believe, but Fraley is already 30 years old. He debuted when he was 24, but he didn’t get substantial playing time until he was 26. He’s spent the last few seasons being a competent fourth outfielder, but he wasn’t able to quite break through with Atlanta this season, and was lost on waivers early this offseason.

The Atlanta Braves basically spent all of 2025 trying to create a competent outfield. An opening seemed to arise in mid-August when the Reds DFA’d Fraley for … reasons. The Braves claim

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