Folks, it\u2019s Opening Day \u2014 for 26 other ballclubs, at least. The Atlanta Braves still have to wait their turn until Friday, which is when they\u2019ll hopefully be able to open up the season by doing some damage against the Kansas City Royals. Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. is going to be starting in right field for this one and it\u2019s safe to assume that there will be plenty of fans wearing some variation of his No. 13 Braves jersey in the stands.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not me speculating, either. MLB just released the list of player jersey sales<\/a> since the final out of the World Series and Acu\u00f1a has made the top 20 on that list once again. Acu\u00f1a\u2019s presence on the list has slid a little bit, though \u2014 he was No. 11 on the last list that was released back in September. Now, he\u2019s No. 17 on the most recent list. Again, it\u2019s still top 20 but he\u2019s no longer knocking on the door of the top 10 like he was not all that long ago. In fact, he\u2019s fallen eight spots since this time last year when he was No. 9<\/a> on the list, so if you\u2019re the type who is following this type of news with baited breath then I hope you were sitting down while reading this.<\/p>\n Anyways, the best way to get those sales back up would be to have a big year and hopefully that\u2019ll be the case for Acu\u00f1a as he heads into this upcoming season. He\u2019s looked like his usual, dynamic self during both spring training and the World Baseball Classic so hopefully we\u2019ll see those encouraging signs translate into another big season. Braves beat writer Mark Bowman of MLB.com summed it up best with his quick thoughts on the matter:<\/p>\n I think we\u2019d all be pretty satisfied with Acu\u00f1a returning to the MVP conversation and that would also bring about the byproduct of more jersey sales, so there\u2019s that. Anyways, if you\u2019ve got an Acu\u00f1a jersey (or shirsey, even), let us know in the comments section below. I\u2019ll also tack on the full list. There\u2019s no prizes for guessing who was No. 1 on the jersey sales list \u2014 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Folks, it\u2019s Opening Day \u2014 for 26 other ballclubs, at least. The Atlanta Braves still have to wait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-644848","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116296439901426404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644848","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=644848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}