{"id":427891,"date":"2025-11-12T03:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/427891\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:38:13","slug":"braves-catcher-drake-baldwin-slugs-his-way-to-nl-roy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/427891\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves catcher Drake Baldwin slugs his way to NL ROY award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGIA \u2014\u00a0Braves catcher Drake Baldwin has slugged his way to National League Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old slammed 19 homers and drove in 80 runs this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just going into it with an open mind, kind of realizing how cool it is to even be a finalist for it,\u201d Baldwin said. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t know how it was going to turn out. I know it\u2019s tough to rank or try to judge who had a better year between a pitcher and a hitter or a catcher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin received 21 of 30 first-place votes. Cubs right-hander Cade Horton got the other nine first-place votes and finished second, followed by Brewers third baseman Caleb Durbin. The balloting was conducted before the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves know a thing or two about winning Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 10th time the franchise has done it, second in the league behind the Dodgers with a record 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEORGIA \u2014\u00a0Braves catcher Drake Baldwin has slugged his way to National League Rookie of the Year. The 24-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[563,556,560,1769,191,46,4166,5,192,2295,4,169,185,59684],"class_list":{"0":"post-427891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-atlanta","13":"tag-atlanta-braves","14":"tag-atlantabraves","15":"tag-baseball","16":"tag-braves","17":"tag-georgia","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-uche-uwah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115534646690818055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}