CHICAGO — When Jesse Chavez pitched three innings of two-hit relief in the second game of the Atlanta Braves’ season, taking over after Max Fried recorded just two outs and pitching into the ...

PHILADELPHIA – In 2009, Charlie Morton met Jesse Chavez. At the time, they were young guys who debuted the previous year. Now they are both 40 years old and still on a major-league roster ...

Jesse Chavez in an Atlanta Braves uniform has been one of the most unexplainable anomalies in Major League Baseball over the last several years. Since 2021, every time he’s donned a tomahawk ...

He took care of it as quickly as he possibly could. This marked the return of Jesse Chavez for the best-in-baseball Braves. It was his first appearance since fracturing his shin after being hit by ...

Braves reliever A.J. Minter won’t tell him directly – “You don’t bring that stuff up,” he said – but he really wants his throwing partner Jesse Chavez to be an All-Star. “There’s ...

In most respects, Jesse Chavez is the quintessential journeyman reliever. But to the Braves, he is so much more. So, when word spread Tuesday morning that the Braves claimed Chavez off waivers ...

As Jesse Chavez’s left shin contusion took longer than he expected to heal, he wondered about it. ExploreChavez placed on injured list in June “Me healing as fast as I normally heal and not ...

For veteran reliever Jesse Chavez, it was Dennis Rogers, his baseball coach at Riverside (Calif.) City College more than two decades ago. Advertisement But as much as he trusts everything Rogers ...

Around the ballpark, Jesse Chavez refers to his teammates and coaches as “coach.” They call him “coach.” Everyone is “coach.” The backstory is fitting. ExploreThe AJC's complete ...

And if this truly is the end for Jesse Chavez, it is a retirement well-earned. Jesse Chavez’s Career: A Lesson in Longevity and Resilience On paper, Chavez’s career stats aren’t going to ...

Reliever Jesse Chavez returns Tuesday to PNC Park, where his 11-year major-league career began with a perfect inning of relief against the Cubs. Chavez’s nine-team odyssey included one curious ...

Jesse Chavez has been around MLB for more than a decade and his reputation as a terrific teammate and sharp pitching mind preceded him on his way to the Texas Rangers last season and again this ...