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ATLANTA (AP) — Suspended outfielder Hector Olivera has begun a minor association rehab task but has no ensures he will return to the Atlanta Braves after his capture on residential savagery charges.Braves president of baseball operations John Hart said Friday that Olivera will play four or five days for the team’s Inlet Coast Alliance associate some time recently detailing to Triple-A Gwinnett another week.
Olivera had a single and two strolls in three plate appearances Friday against the GCL Yankees. He is qualified to return to the majors on Aug. 2, but the Braves have no timetables in put.
“No, there aren’t, and we told Hector the same thing,” Hart said. “There fair isn’t a ensure, and I think there’s certainly getting to be things we’re getting to be looking at off the field and the advance that we think he’s made.”
Hart met with Olivera a handful of weeks back in Florida at the Braves’ amplified spring preparing office. Hart said Olivera was penitent with respect to his April 13 capture at a inn exterior Washington, D.C., but included that’s as it were a begin.
“I think he’s making an fair exertion to undertake and put himself back and sort of restore his career,” Hart said. “Other than that, we’ll fair take after it out, remain associated going forward. There’s a parcel of things ready to do come Aug. 2.”
Olivera’s fast death was a enormous blow to Atlanta, which procured him in a 13-player, three-team exchange final July 30. The 31-year-old Cuban was anticipated to boost the team’s offense in his to begin with full season within the majors, but the capture changed everything.
The Braves, who have been unsuccessful in endeavors to exchange Olivera, rank final in runs and homers and have baseball’s most exceedingly bad record at 31-58.
Those destitute numbers, in any case, pale in seriousness to the report recorded by Arlington, Virginia, police that Olivera was capable for unmistakable bruises on the body of a female acquaintance.
That come about in an 82-game suspension without pay that commissioner Ransack Manfred reported in late May and was retroactive to April 30.
Hart is prepared for Olivera to talk to correspondents approximately his activities. Olivera was planned to seem in court in Virginia prior this month, but the date has been rescheduled.
This can be where we’re at right presently, and I think to the degree he needs to, those are the questions that ought to go Hector’s way when he comes back,” Hart said. “I’m beyond any doubt he’ll get a parcel of those questions at Gwinnett and in the event that and when he comes back here, he’ll got to reply those same questions.”
Olivera is losing $1,792,350 of his $4 million compensation this season. The Los Angeles Dodgers marked him to a six-year, $62.5 million contract in May 2015. He is owed $28.5 million from 2017-20.
