1917 2 December 23, 2009^07:57am Rob Reed^1 The Braves land Troy Glaus to play first base atlanta.braves.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091223&content_id=7848046&vkey=news_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl Braves mlb.com 3996 6322 0 And, suddenly, the Vazquez deal makes a little more sense... I am presuming that the Vazquez deal allowed them to free up some money to make this deal. This would be the only good reason to have let go of a very good pitcher.