Hanson, 29, suffered "catastrophic bureau failure" on Monday, according to WSB-TV in Atlanta, and had been ailing back aboriginal Sunday morning.
Hanson, a 6-6, 220-pounder accepted for his affable personality, endure pitched in the above leagues in 2013 with the Los Angeles Angels. He spent about a ages abroad from the club that year as he coped with the abrupt afterlife of his stepbrother.
He accomplished third in National Alliance Rookie of the Year voting in 2009, if he won 11 amateur and acquaint a 2.89 earned-run boilerplate for the Atlanta Braves.
"We are abundantly afflicted to apprentice of Tommy's adverse passing," said Braves admiral John Schuerholz in a account appear by the club. "He was a admired in the adviser and with our agents and he will absolutely be absent by anybody in Braves Country.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, family, above teammates and friends."
Shoulder ache agitated him as afresh as 2010, and bound him to just 22 starts in 2011.
While Hanson fabricated 31 starts and won 13 amateur for the Braves in 2012, they traded him to the Los Angeles Angels that off-season for analgesic Jordan Walden. If his stepbrother anesthetized abroad that spring, Hanson took six canicule off from the team, fabricated one start, and again accomplished he bare added time abroad to mourn.
He alternate to the Angels three weeks later.
"I was accepting brainy issues with the afterlife of my adolescent brother,” Hanson, again 26, told reporters then. "I was just aggravating to get through it. I didn’t apperceive how to handle it.
"That was the aboriginal time annihilation like that had anytime happened to me. I didn’t apperceive how to cope with it.”
He fabricated 13 starts for the Angels in 2013, and fabricated his final above alliance appearance, a abatement outing, on Sept. 28.Hanson active with the Texas Rangers in February 2014 alone to be appear a ages later. In addition attack at a comeback, he active with the Chicago White Sox in April 2014 and spent the division in the amateur afore an abrasion cut his division short. He was accepted his chargeless bureau afterwards the season.
In May, Hanson active a accessory alliance accord with the San Francisco Giants and appeared for their Class A and AAA teams in San Jose and San Francisco.
In 5 above alliance seasons, four with the Braves, Hanson went 49-35 with a 3.80 ERA.
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