Among the former Atlanta Braves to appear on the 2023 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is starting pitcher Bronson Arroyo. The right-hander with the unique wind-up pitched parts of sixteen seasons in MLB, debuting in 2000 for the Pittsburgh Pirates and wrapping up his career in 2017 for the Cincinatti Reds.
If you are scratching your head to remember when Arroyo pitched for Atlanta, don’t fret, because Arroyo never pitched for Atlanta due to injury. However, he was a member of the organization after the Braves acquired him (and, more importantly, his contract) as part of a mid-June 2015 trade with Arizona that sent Phil Gosselin to the Diamondbacks and brought pitching prospect Touki Toussaint to Atlanta.