{"id":175217,"date":"2025-09-23T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/175217\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:01:10","slug":"ozzie-albies-has-fractured-hamate-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/175217\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzie Albies has fractured hamate bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-injuries\/120284\/ozzie-albies-leaves-game-with-wrist-issue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:leaving tonight\u2019s game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">leaving tonight\u2019s game<\/a> mid-at-bat in the third inning against the Washington Nationals, the Atlanta Braves announced that second baseman Ozzie Albies has a fractured hamate bone in his left hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The injury not only ends Albies season but puts his future with the organization in doubt. The Braves have a $7M option for 2026 that includes a $4M buyout, but after missing the end of last season with an issue with his left wrist \u2013 the results of which lingered well into the 2025 season \u2013 another injury and the length of recovery for it could impact Atlanta\u2019s decision on the option.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This season had been a disappointing one for Albies, who struggled for the first-half of the season before seeming to re-find his offensive form in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Albies, 28, is the team\u2019s longest tenured player. A three-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger, Albies has spent nine seasons with the Braves since debuting in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He had played in every game this season coming into tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leaving tonight\u2019s game mid-at-bat in the third inning against the Washington Nationals, the Atlanta Braves announced that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,104469,363,18700,99,104468,2331],"class_list":{"0":"post-175217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-hamate-bone","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-ozzie-albies","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tonights-game","14":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}