Braves extend C Flowers through 2019

The Atlanta Braves and catcher Tyler Flowers agreed to a one-year, $4 million extension for the 2019 season, the team announced Tuesday.

The deal includes a $6 million club option for 2020 that can be bought out for $2 million.

Flowers, 32, has hit .225 with five home runs and 20 RBIs in 61 games with the Braves this season. He is making $4 million on the club option of a two-year, $5.3 million deal he signed with Atlanta as a free agent in 2015.

Flowers, a native of Roswell, Ga., has hit .264 with 25 homers and 110 RBIs in three seasons with the Braves. He spent the first seven years of his major league career with the Chicago White Sox.

Overall, Flowers has hit .239 with 71 homers and 252 RBIs for his career.

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