{"id":478353,"date":"2026-02-19T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478353\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:38:09","slug":"a-healthy-austin-riley-could-be-the-key-that-unlocks-atlantas-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478353\/","title":{"rendered":"A healthy Austin Riley could be the key that unlocks Atlanta\u2019s lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The sports hernia surgery performed this past summer didn\u2019t limit Riley this offseason. So, there\u2019s reason the two-time All-Star is confident he can get back to where he was when he finished top seven in National League MVP balloting three straight seasons (2021-23).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe sports hernia, I\u2019m not even thinking about it,\u201d Riley said. \u201cThe hand, I\u2019m not even thinking about it. So, having a whole offseason getting to do what I\u2019ve done in the past is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sports hernia surgery performed this past summer didn\u2019t limit Riley this offseason. So, there\u2019s reason the two-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[221129,363,99],"class_list":["post-478353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves-analysis","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478353","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=478353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}