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FREDDIE FREEMAN
FRONT OFFICE • Has a career .383 on-base percentage, the sixth • Is a career .324/.443/.542 (382-for-1,179) hitter
with runners in scoring position…Since 2010,
best in the majors since the start of the 2010
season (min. 1,000 PAs)…Only Joey Votto (.425),
115 players have taken at least 1,000 plate
Mike Trout (.418), Miguel Cabrera (.397), Paul
batting average and .443 on-base percentage are
Goldschmidt (.392) and Bryce Harper (.387) have appearances in those situations…Freeman’s .324
reached base more frequently in that time. each sixth best in the majors in that time.
• Had a career-best .462 on-base
• Batted a career-best .443 (58-for-131)
MANAGER & STAFF percentage in 2020…Has twice more with runners in scoring position in 2013,
reached base at a .400 clip or higher in a
and led the majors in that category in
season – .400 in 2016 and .403 in 2017.
2015 (.376, 35-for-93).
• Is just the third qualified Braves player
2012…Has hit .283/.377/.465 (28-for-99) with
since the franchise moved to Atlanta in • Has started all 26 of Atlanta’s playoff games since
1966 to have a .400 on-base percentage six doubles, four homers, nine RBI and 15 runs
or better in consecutive seasons…Chipper scored in his postseason career….Did not make
FREDDIE FREEMAN 1998-2003, and then again from 2007- • Has reached base safely in 22 of those
Jones did it in six straight seasons from
the Braves’ playoff roster as a rookie in 2010.
08, while Gary Sheffield did it in 2002 and
26 games, including hitting safely in 18
2003...Only one other qualifying Atlanta
of them…Had a postseason single-game
player had multiple seasons with a .400 or
better on-base percentage: Jeff Blauser in career-best three hits in the 2012 Wild
Card Game against St. Louis.
1993 and 1997. • His first career playoff homer came in
• In over half of his career games, 51.8%, Freeman
Game 3 of the 2018 NLDS against Los
SEASON IN REVIEW has reached base safely multiple times…His 729 Angeles…Hit the first pitch of his sixth-
such games (1,406 total games) are seventh most
inning at-bat off Alex Wood out to right
in the majors since 2010…Joey Votto’s 890 are
field to give the Braves a 6-5 lead…They
the most in this time.
would win by that score and claim their
only game of the series.
• Has 605 extra-base hits in his career, sixth
most in Braves history…Only Nelson Cruz (652), • Has 11 career game-ending hits in his career,
Robinson Canó (635), Miguel Cabrera (611), Mike
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Trout (610) and Edwin Encarnación (606) have have been home runs.
including five home runs…His last three such hits
more since the beginning of 2010…Of those hits,
• Aside from this season’s walk-off against
342 are doubles…That is third most in the majors
Boston, Freeman’s last walk-off homer
since his debut.
was off Milwaukee LH Josh Hader on
• Had a single-season best 83 extra-base
5/18/19…It came in the 10th inning in a
hits in 2016, hitting 43 doubles, six triples
3-3 tie.
and 34 home runs…That total led the N.L… • He also had a game-ending home run on
The only other Atlanta-era player to post 6/1/16 off San Francisco RH Derek Law…
BRAVES HISTORY was Chipper Jones, who had a record 87 • Freeman had a career-best three walk-off
80 or more extra-base hits in a season
The game was tied, 4-4, in the bottom of
the 11th inning.
in 1999…Jones won his only career MVP
award that season…Hank Aaron was the
only other player in franchise history to hits in 2013, including the last of which
was a game-ending homer on 6/17 vs.
produce at least 30 homers, 40 doubles New York-NL…With the Braves down 1-0,
and five triples in a season.
he launched a two-run homer off the
• Hit a career-best 44 doubles in 2018, a Mets’ Dillon Gee.
OPPONENTS franchise record for a first baseman… • His first career walk-off homer clinched
Finished that season with 71 extra-base
a playoff spot for Atlanta…On 9/25/12
hits, one of five seasons in his career with
65-or-more extra-base hits…Only four vs. Miami, hit a two-run shot off LH Mike
Dunn in the ninth inning to give the
other players have more such seasons Braves a 4-3 win.
in franchise history…Hank Aaron had a
record 16 of these seasons, while Andruw • In 2019, set single-season career bests with 38
home runs, 121 RBI and 113 runs scored.
MISCELLANEOUS 120 seven and Eddie Mathews had six…Wally
Jones had eight, Chipper Jones had
Berger also had five.
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