Braves fans excited as team brings back 2021 World Series winners Jorge Soler and Luke Jackson in surprise trade deadline deal

Luke Jackson is also returning to Atlanta, while Tyler Matzek and minor leaguer Sabin Ceballos will join the Giants in the deal.

The Atlanta Braves pulled off a trade deadline surprise Monday night, finalizing a deal to acquire former All-Star outfielder and World Series MVP Jorge Soler from the San Francisco Giants, sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports' Russell Dorsey.

The Braves later confirmed the trade with the Giants, who will receive left-handed pitcher Tyler Matzek and minor-league infielder Sabin Ceballos in the swap. The Braves are also acquiring pitcher Luke Jackson, another former Brave, from San Francisco.

Atlanta previously traded for Soler in a 2021 deadline deal with the Kansas City Royals. He started 55 regular-season games with the Braves that season, then helped lead them to a World Series championship. In the World Series, he hit three home runs and batted in three go-ahead runs as Atlanta beat the Houston Astros and Soler was named World Series MVP.

Soler left Atlanta for the Miami Marlins in free agency after the World Series on a three-year, $36 million deal. He made his first All-Star team in 2023 while slashing .250/.341/.512 with 36 home runs and 75 RBI. He opted out of the final year of his contract to sign a three-year, $42 million contract with the Giants in the offseason.

Jackson, a reliever, was also a member of the 2021 World Series team. He's played the last two seasons with the Giants.

Soler and Jackson join the Braves again as they look to fend off the rest of the NL wild-card contenders and make another postseason run.

In 2021, Ronald Acuña Jr tore his ACL. The Braves added a quartet of outfielders at the trade deadline — including Jorge Soler — and won the World Series. This year, Acuña tore his other ACL, and the Braves … just traded for Soler. Again.

Asked recently by Yahoo Sports whether he looks back on 2021 as instructive for this season, Braves manager Brian Snitker replied, "No, every year is such a separate entity that you can't say well, 'OK, it's OK that we're doing this.' In 2021, we lost one guy. Really. You know, we've lost a big chunk of what we had going on this year. And I don't think you can look at [2021] and think it's necessarily going to transpire and be that same result again. I think you just got to deal with this year this year. I mean, every year presents its own set of problems."

And this year, while Soler — who just signed a three-year deal with the Giants in February — will bring light-tower power and a jolt of energy to Atlanta, he’s not as snug a fit on the Braves as he was three summers ago. With the raking Marcell Ozuna entrenched at designated hitter, Soler will have to play in the outfield every day. The gargantuan slugger hasn’t manned the grass regularly since 2021, when he rated as one of the worst defenders in all of baseball by advanced metrics. He’s now three years older, bigger and slower, with more injuries in the rearview.

With this move, Atlanta’s lineup is undoubtedly better than it was yesterday, but their defense just took an obvious step back. Jackson, who was also on the 2021 Braves, gives them another reliable, familiar option in the bullpen. — Jake Mintz

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