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Fried

LEFT-HANDED PITCHER
Full Name: Max Dorian Fried Throws: Left
MANAGER & STAFF Height: 6-4 Weight: 190
Bats: Left

Opening Day Age: 27
DOB: January 18, 1994
Born: Santa Monica, CA
MLB Service Time: 2.148
MLB Debut: August 8, 2017 Resides: Henderson, NV
Acquired: Trade with San Diego, December 19, 2014
Contract Status: Signed through 2021
MAX FRIED 2020

• Awards: Gold Glove (P), All-MLB First Team (SP). CAREER HIGHS
• N.L. Ranks: Wins (7, T2nd).
Most Innings Pitched
• Played his second full major league season and 7.0, 2x, last: 9/5/19, ATL vs. WSH
SEASON IN REVIEW games, all starts. Most Runs Allowed
went 7-0 with a 2.25 ERA (14 ER/56.0 IP) in 11
• Finished the season with 56.0 innings,
5, 7x, last: 9/15/19, ATL at WSH
4.0 innings short of qualifying for the ERA
title...His 2.25 ERA would have ranked
5, 6x, last: 9/15/19, ATL at WSH
fourth lowest in the N.L. with enough Most Earned Runs Allowed
innings. Most Hits Allowed
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT in the majors by a left-hander, one more than Most Home Runs Allowed
• His 24 wins over the past two seasons are most
11, 7/6/19, ATL vs. MIA
Seattle’s Marco Gonzalez.
4, 9/10/19, ATL at PHI
• Only one pitcher, the Yankees Gerrit Cole,
has more wins than Fried since the start of
last year...Cole has 27 wins.
5, 6/25/19, ATL at CHC
• Fried did not allow a home run in any of his first Most Walks
10 starts of the season and retired the first two Most Strikeouts
BRAVES HISTORY allowing back-to-back home runs to Miami’s 11, 2x, last: 8/30/19, ATL vs. CWS
batters he faced in his final appearance before
Longest winning streak
Jesús Aguilar and Brian Anderson...The homers
snapped a 68.1-inning homerless run.
• His 68.1-inning homerless streak entering 8 games, 9/21/19-present
Longest losing streak
play was the longest in the majors at the
time, 19.1 innings longer than any other 3 games, 9/25/17-4/27/18
pitcher…Fried was vying to become just
OPPONENTS the third qualifying pitcher in the live • Won each of his first seven decisions, becoming
ball era to complete a season without
allowing a home run, and the first since
Slim Harriss in 1926. the first Braves starter to do so since Denny
Neagle in 1997...Neagle also started 7-0.
• He opened the season with 10 straight • No Braves pitcher has started 8-0 since
homerless starts, the longest stretch the club moved to Atlanta in 1966, and
for an Atlanta pitcher since Zane Smith just three have done so since 1900 (Ed
MISCELLANEOUS 124 straight homerless starts. and Jim Wilson in 1954).
in 1986, who opened the year with 13
Brandt in 1931, Warren Spahn in 1947 and

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