Washington - avier Vazquez was traded from the Chicago White Sox to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday as the teams completed a six-player deal agreed to earlier in the week. Left-hander reliever Boone Logan also went to Atlanta as part of the deal, in which the White Sox acquired four prospects: catcher Tyler Flowers, infielders Jonathan Gilmore and Brent Lillibridge and left-handed pitcher Santos Rodriguez.

Vazquez was 12-16 with a 4.67 ERA in 33 starts for the AL Central champions this season, surpassing 200 innings for the eighth time in nine years, but he struggled down the stretch, when manager Ozzie Guillen stated he wasn't a big-game pitcher. In his last three regular-season starts and the playoff opener against Tampa Bay, Vazquez was 0-4 with a 13.22 ERA.

The 32-year-old right-hander has a 127-129 career record with Montreal, the New York Yankees, Arizona and the White Sox. He owed $11.5 million in each of the next in the 2009 and 2010 seasons, then can become a free agent.

Logan was 2-3 with a 5.95 ERA in 55 relief appearances with the White Sox in 2008. He has a 4-4 record with a 5.87 ERA in 144 games over three seasons with Chicago.

Flowers gained attention when he hit 12 homers in 20 games in the Arizona Fall League. He batted .288 with 17 homers at Class A Myrtle Beach last season.

Lillibridge hit .200 in 80 at-bats with Atlanta last season. He spent most of the season with Triple-A Richmond, batting .220.

Gilmore, a third baseman, batted .294 with four homers and 35 RBI in 94 games with Advanced Rookie Danville and Class A Rome in 2008.

The 6-foot-5 Rodriguez was 1-2 with a 2.79 ERA in 14 relief appearances with the Gulf Coast League Braves in 2008.

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