{"id":581413,"date":"2026-02-19T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/581413\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:37:38","slug":"a-healthy-austin-riley-could-be-the-key-that-unlocks-atlantas-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/581413\/","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":581414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[73272,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-581413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-atlanta-braves-analysis","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116098518673920600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581413","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=581413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}