The Braves announced Friday morning that they’ve reinstated Ozzie Albies from the 10-day injured list. The star second baseman is expected to be back in the lineup for today’s game. It’s a rather remarkable recovery for a player who spent just the 10-day minimum on the injured list after suffering a fractured big toe when he was hit by a pitch on April 15. Albies is returning to the club without a rehab assignment, though he took batting practice throughout the week.
Whether there’ll be any lingering effects remains to be seen, but Albies has gotten out to an excellent start in 2024. Through 15 games and 70 trips to the plate, he’s slashing .317/.386/.492 with a pair of homers, a pair of steals and just a 12.9% strikeout rate. If the foot injury doesn’t provide any more problems for him, he’s laid the foundation for an excellent follow-up effort to a career year at the plate in 2023, which saw Albies pop a personal-best 33 home runs and bat .280/.336/.513 in 660 plate appearances.
Atlanta won’t need to make any corresponding moves to get Albies back onto the roster. The Braves announced yesterday that infielder David Fletcher passed through waivers unclaimed and had been assigned outright to Triple-A Gwinnett. He’d been on the big league roster, so that paved the way for Albies’ reinstatement.
In 787 games since debuting with the Braves as a 20-year-old back in 2017, Albies is a .273/.326/.479 hitter with 133 home runs and 78 stolen bases. The three-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger winner is in the sixth season of a seven-year, $35MM contract extension he signed back in April of 2019. He’s earning $7MM this year and next, and the Braves hold a pair of $7MM club options on him for the 2026-27 campaigns.
Ozzie is a tough little dude.
Breaks his big toe plays the rest of the game gets a hit and scored a run and comes back in 2 weeks.
Someone got butt-hurt about me calling Ozzie a “Tough little dude” lol
Well he’s like 5’7 and 150 lbs so yea he’s a smaller player compared to the average MLB player and he’s freaking tough because he is Ozzie Freakin Albie’s one of the top 5 2nd basemen going today.
So if you get butt-hurt over that then go buy yourself some preparation H and deal with it.
Meanwhile I’ll be watching Ozzie play some good baseball.
Some folks here said he’d be out for 3 months
Its been 10 days
Ya’ll are experts lol
Most underrated city in America. Most underrated player in MLB. Most underrated organization in MLB. Most underrated fanbase/culture east of the Misisipi. Most underrated stadium in all of international sports.
What’s underrated about any of them? I think they all are highly rated.
Takes a minute for information to correctly travel to the heads of muts fans lol
Who does these ratings?
It’s not the people at 2k or EA sports hopefully
Just mute the troll.
Just in time for the playoff run.
@prov356 Just calling out @Sodojomo with his nonsense as evident in the Jackson Holliday post.
AA is playing 3D chess with Ozzie Albies’ toes.