{"id":951475,"date":"2026-10-30T04:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951475\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:34:11","slug":"braves-exercise-options-on-acuna-jr-albies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951475\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves exercise options on Acuna Jr., Albies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/ronald-acuna-jr-\/860100f5-6b7a-40da-ace9-fc6805ed8744\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"860100f5-6b7a-40da-ace9-fc6805ed8744\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.<\/a>&#8216;s $17 million option was exercised Thursday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/atlanta-braves\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"atlanta-braves\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>, who exercised a $7 million option on second baseman Ozzie Albies.<\/p>\n<p>Acu\u00f1a, a five-time All-Star and the 2023 NL MVP, agreed in 2019 to a $100 million, eight-year contract that included the 2027 option, which had a $10 million buyout, and a $17 million option for 2028, which has no buyout.<\/p>\n<p>Albies agreed in 2019 to a $35 million, seven-year contract that included $7 million options for 2026 and 2027 that raised the value to $45 million over nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Acu\u00f1a hit .255 with 20 homers, 55 RBIs and 21 stolen bases this year. A strained left hamstring sidelined the 28-year-old between May 2 and 19, and between June 10 and July 27.<\/p>\n<p>Albies, a 29-year-old four-time All-Star, batted a career-low .237 with 22 homers and 73 RBIs. He was among seven players who appeared in all 162 of his team&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.&#8216;s $17 million option was exercised Thursday by the Atlanta Braves, who exercised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-951475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}