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ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves keep racking up the hardware to go along with their World Series rings.
MLB announced Thursday night that four Braves players won the Silver Slugger Award: Ozzie Albies, Freddie Freeman, Max Fried and Austin Riley.
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It is the first time Riley and Fried have won the award. Albies picked up his second while Freeman won his third consecutive Silver Slugger.
The Braves also had four winners last year. Both marks are tied in second-most Silver Sluggers by a single team. Only the 1980 St. Louis Cardinals have more winners with five.
The @Braves slugged their way to a World Series title and the 2nd-most Silver Slugger Awards by a team in a single season. pic.twitter.com/4BJcAb8f3S
— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) November 11, 2021
Freeman followed up his 2020 MVP season with .300 batting average, 83 RBIs, .896 OPS and 31 home runs. The first baseman led the National League with 120 runs scored.
Albies led all second basemen in MLB with 106 RBIs and finished the season with .259 batting average and .488 slugging percentage. He recorded 30 home runs.
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Riley is the first Braves third baseman to win the Silver Slugger since Chipper Jones. He finished the season with a .309 batting average, 107 RBIs, .905 OPS, 33 home runs and 33 doubles.
Fried finished with a .273 batting average, .322 on-base percentage and five RBIs. His 15 hits were the best among all pitchers this season.
It could be the last time a Braves pitcher puts up numbers like those if the National League adds the designated hitter in 2022.
Fried’s first Silver Slugger award isn’t the only hardware he has earned this year.
On Monday, the southpaw won the Rawlings’ Gold Glove award for the second straight year. Fried had a .978 fielding percentage in 2021 and only one error for the entire season.
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