Braves Respond to Met's Signing

Anything you can do, I can do better. Sign Redding? We'll get Lowe.

Just hours after the Mets finished dotting the 'i's" and crossing the "t's" on the Tim Redding contract, the Atlanta Braves announced that they signed a pitcher too.

This time it's addition by prevention.

The Braves signed free agent sinker baller Derek Lowe, adding him to their new look rotation for '09.

The NY Mets were actively pursuing Lowe throughout the offseason, who became a free agent after his contract with the Dodgers expired.

In an article written by ESPN's Jerry Crasnick, the Braves offered Lowe a four year deal worth $60 million;
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Lowe, 35, has a career 126-107 record in 12 seasons with Seattle, Boston and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's averaged 208 innings the past seven seasons, and consistently has one of the highest ground ball-to-fly ball ratios in the game.

Lowe would join Javier Vazquez, Jair Jurrjens and Japanese pitcher Kenshin Kawakami in a new-look Atlanta rotation.
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