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Sources: A's to trade outfielder Kotsay to Braves for pitcher Devine

By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

Saturday, January 12, 2008

The Atlanta Braves have reached a preliminary agreement to acquire center fielder Mark Kotsay from the Oakland Athletics, filling the hole created by the departure of Andruw Jones. The deal will be finalized once Kotsay passes a physical for Atlanta, where he is expected to fly to on Sunday, and assuming the commissioner's office approves the cash negotiated to be exchanged in the deal, sources say. In return for Kotsay, the Braves are trading pitcher Joey Devine, and Oakland will assume $5.3 ...

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