Tim Hudson News

He started as a starter. Then he became a championship closer. I'm just throwing it out there, OK? So don't all scream at once.

It's October 2010. The Atlanta Braves are playing the Philadelphia Phillies in a packed house at Turner Field.

So here goes: With the re-signing of Tim Hudson, the Braves have six starting pitchers under contract for 2010.

The Atlanta Braves and starter Tim Hudson are reportedly close to agreeing on a three-year extension which will pay the Georgia native almost $9 million annually.

The Atlanta Braves and Tim Hudson are nearing agreement on a three-year contract that would protect the team's strength at starting pitching.

Pitcher Tim Hudson and the Atlanta Braves are nearing agreement on a three-year contract.

The Braves have signed veteran reliever Scott Proctor to a one-year contract,A according to his agent.A The team hopes he can overcome two recent elbowA surgeries and regain something akin to his form.

Phoenix a ' Greetings from the desert Southwest, where it's a cloudless day with the temperature headed to 90 and another slate of Arizona Fall League games starting at 12:30 p.m. before intimate gatherings that are typically made up of couple dozen scouts and about 75-100 others including autograph hounds, girlfriends, potential girlfriends and ...

Sunday's Game 4 was the most-watched World Series contest in five years and put up viewership numbers on par with the Super Bowl and "American Idol." New York's 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies was seen by 22.8 million viewers, which is a 47 percent increase over last year's Game 4 and the highest number since the Red Sox's ...

If you believe Dave O'Brien, Mark Bowman, and the ever-so-unreliable Ken Rosenthal, Tim Hudson is set to sign a three-year extension with the Atlanta Braves in the neighborhood of $27 million.

It's a hot day as Jim Bintliff laces up his "mud shoes" -- a beat-up pair of sneakers still tinged with dirt -- and heads out for one of his last harvests of the year.

Having been on the mend, is Tim Hudson now on the wing? Here's a a bit of a surprise: Citing "major-league sources," Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com reports Tim Hudson will decline his option to re-up with the Braves and will become a free agent instead.

Ken Rosenthal from FOX Sports says that barring a big, last minute offer from the Braves, Tim Hudson will likely test the free-agent market.

Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.

Second in an occasional series of analyses of the Braves' 2009 campaign, with an eye toward 2010.

When the Braves said they didn't want their season to end Oct. 4, this wasn't what they had in mind.

SEATTLE, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Ten Major League Baseball players have just learned they're in the running for the 2009 Hutch Award.

Twenty-one major league teams hit more homers than the Braves this season, but not a single team had a better earned run average from its starting pitchers.

The most consistent slugger in Baseball came up two home runs short of his usual benchmark.

Braves general manager Frank Wren doesn't face the same task that he did at this time last year, when he needed to reconstruct his starting rotation.