{"id":577218,"date":"2026-02-17T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/577218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:40:34","slug":"braves-star-ozzie-albies-surprises-students-who-wrote-to-him-about-class-fish-project-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/577218\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves star Ozzie Albies surprises students who wrote to him about class fish project \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">COBB COUNTY, Ga.  \u2014 If there\u2019s one thing Ozzie Albies loves more than playing baseball, it\u2019s caring for animals, especially fish. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Atlanta Braves second baseman has become especially known for his extensive knowledge of aquatic life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">So when elementary students at Lockheed Elementary decided they wanted a fish for a class pet, they knew Albies was the right guy to ask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThe kids wrote me letters asking for which fish to recommend. But I said, you know what, I\u2019d feel better if I\u2019d set up a fish tank myself,\u201d Albies said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">And so he did. Albies surprised the class before he left for Braves spring training in Florida. He brought goldfish, a tank and other supplies for the students to take care of their new class pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Take a look at the surprise. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COBB COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 If there\u2019s one thing Ozzie Albies loves more than playing baseball, it\u2019s caring for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[152,191,46,4166,5,192,4,505],"class_list":{"0":"post-577218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-american-league","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-national-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116085314533854335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577218","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=577218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}