{"id":841122,"date":"2026-10-30T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/841122\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:06:15","slug":"braves-exercise-options-on-ronald-acuna-jr-and-ozzie-albies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/841122\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves exercise options on Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. and Ozzie Albies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ronald-acuna-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Acuna Jr.&#8217;s<\/a> $17 million option was exercised Thursday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/atlanta-braves-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>, who exercised a $7 million option on second baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ozhaino-albies-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzie Albies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Acu\u00f1a, a five-time All-Star and the 2023 NL MVP, agreed in 2019 to a $100 million, eight-year contract that included the 2027 option, which had a $10 million buyout, and a $17 million option for 2028, which has no buyout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Albies agreed in 2019 to $35 million, seven-year contract that included $7 million options for 2026 and 2027 that raised the value to $45 million over nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Acu\u00f1a hit .255 with 20 homers, 55 RBIs and 21 stolen bases this year. A strained left hamstring sidelined the 28-year-old between May 2 and 19, and between June 10 and July 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Albies, a 29-year-old four-time All-Star, batted a career-low .237 with 22 homers and 73 RBIs. He was among seven players who appeared in all 162 of his team&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">See AP\u2019s full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr.&#8217;s $17 million option was exercised Thursday by the Atlanta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,5,19,4,1132,921],"class_list":["post-841122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-ronald-acuna-jr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841122","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=841122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}