{"id":530938,"date":"2026-01-21T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:15:13","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-andruw-jones-to-hof-ronald-acuna-jr-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530938\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Andruw Jones to HOF, Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tuesday marked a huge day for the Atlanta Braves organization, as Andruw Jones was finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/125252\/andruw-jones-elected-to-baseball-hall-of-fame-for-class-of-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.<\/a> The Atlanta great was included on 333 of the 425 ballots, giving him just over the 75% of votes needed to make the 2026 class. Fellow center fielder Carlos Beltran was also elected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Debuting in 1996, Jones spent 12 seasons in Atlanta before heading West to suit up for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The five-time All-Star played his last MLB game in 2012 and finished his career with 10 Gold Gloves, a Silver Slugger award, a .992 fielding percentage, 1,933 hits, 1,289 RBI, and 434 home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His Hall of Fame election cements his place among the legendary Braves of the \u201990s and recognizes one of the game\u2019s premier all-around talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was recently announced that shortstop Ha-Seong Kim will miss a couple months of the regular season due to a hand injury, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-player-analysis\/125245\/offseason-free-agency-trade-rumors-injury-ha-seong-kim-mauricio-dubon-jorge-mateo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s<\/a> what that means for the Braves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LHP <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/former-twins-veteran-pitcher-ends-234926618.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Hill<\/a> announced that he does not plan to pitch in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday marked a huge day for the Atlanta Braves organization, as Andruw Jones was finally elected into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-530938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-news","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530938","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=530938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}