was the co-winner of this award in 2018 w/ Milwaukee’s Jesús Aguilar.N.L. 2020Īwards: Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger (OF), Second Team All-MLB (OF), Luis Aparicio Award.The Luis Aparicio Award is given annually to the best performance in a season by a Venezuelan-born major-league player… The award is voted on by Venezuelan and international Spanish-speaking members of the media that cover baseball…Acuña Jr. Washington in his 210th game atop the Braves lineup…That was his 293rd career game, and no player in major-league history had more leadoff homers through their first 300 career games.Made his third career Opening Day start…At 23, became the youngest Braves OF to start consecutive Opening Day games since Andruw Jones, who also started three straight from 1997- 99 (Age 19-21).Was named NL Player of the Week for the period of April 12-18. broke the record, hitting his 18th leadoff homer on 9/5 vs. 3, though, when he homered with a 117.9 mph exit velocity against Noah Syndergaard of the New York Mets.Hit four leadoff home runs, bringing his career total to 23, which is the most in franchise history.Has a franchise-record 19 leadoff homers in his career…Felipe Alou held the previous record with 17, doing so in 633 games leading off…Acuña Jr. Louis was the 100th of his career, doing so in just his 378th career game.He became the sixth fastest to 100 homers in MLB history (Ryan Howard, 324 games Gary Sánchez, 355 Aaron Judge, 371 Ralph Kiner, 376 Joey Gallo, 377).Blasted a 460-foot home run off Philadelphia’s Aaron Nola on June 8.The ball had an exit velocity of 116 mph, which stood for 19 days as the hardest-hit home run by a Brave in the Statcast era.He later outdid himself on June 27 when he hit one with a 117.4 mph EV off Cincinnati’s Tyler Mahle.Jorge Soler took possession of the hardest-hit homer Oct. Became the fifth player in franchise history to make multiple All-Star teams by his age-23 season (Hank Aaron, 3 Joe Torre, Eddie Mathews and Brian McCann, 2).His homer June 20 vs. All-Star.Played in 82 games before suffering a season-ending ACL tear in his right knee July 10 at Miami.Through July 10, Acuña ranked highly in multiple MLB stat categories, including runs (72, 1st), slugging percentage (.596, 4th), home runs (24, 5th) and extra-base hits (44, T8th).Additionally, his 10 go-ahead home runs through July 10 were tied for fifth in baseball.Was selected to his second All-Star Game as one of the three starters in the National League outfield, but was unable to play due to his injury. His brother, Luisangel, is an infielder in the Texas Rangers organization…Luisangel, born in March 2002, completed his first professional season in 2019, earning Baseball America DSL All-Star honors.Another brother, Bryan, signed with the Minnesota Twins organization as an infielder in January 2021.His father, Ron, was an outfielder in the minor leagues for three different organizations (New York-NL from 1999-2004, Toronto in 2005 and Milwaukee in 2006).His grandfather, Rosmaldo “Romo” Blanco, was a pitcher in Houston’s system.Īwards: N.L.
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