{"id":842133,"date":"2026-10-31T06:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/842133\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:12:45","slug":"braves-exercise-options-on-ronald-acuna-jr-and-ozzie-albies-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/842133\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves exercise options on Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. and Ozzie Albies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(AP) &#8211; Outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.\u2019s $17 million option was exercised Thursday by the Atlanta Braves, who exercised a $7 million option on second baseman Ozzie Albies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">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\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) &#8211; Outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.\u2019s $17 million option was exercised Thursday by the Atlanta Braves, who exercised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13241,46,14002,13243,5,192,4,1132,49710,58496,9736,71986,101848,921,13242],"class_list":["post-842133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anf","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta-news","tag-atlanta-news-first","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-ozzie-albies-braves","tag-ozzie-albies-stats","tag-ronald-acuna-jr-braves","tag-ronald-acuna-jr-contract","tag-ronald-acuna-jr-option","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-wanf"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842133","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=842133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}