Aaron Bummer was in bed late on Nov. 16 when he received a phone call from Chicago White Sox general manager Chris Getz, telling him he had been traded to the Atlanta Braves.
The left-handed pitcher got a call from Braves president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos shortly thereafter.
“There’s a lot of emotions, just an emotional day,” Bummer said Monday morning in the visitor’s clubhouse at Guaranteed Rate Field. “We talked a lot about leaving the city of Chicago — we called our second home — to the excitement of being an Atlanta Brave and the excitement of chapter two in this journey.