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Braves Briefing: Another Ronald Acuña Jr. stat that is ridiculous

Ronald Acuña Jr. is having a ridiculous season.

Zac Blackerby

You can't spell Ronald Acuña Jr. without "MVP". Actually, that's not true. But, every few days, it seems like someone throws out an Acuña Jr. stat showing how dominant his 2023 MLB season has been.

The latest is from the Fox Sports: MLB account. They listed the leaders across the MLB when looking at home runs and stolen bases. Acuña leads all of baseball by a pretty solid margin.

His 19 home runs and 35 stolen bases put him at 54 total in the stat shown in the graphic down below. This is 13 better than Oakland's Esteury Ruiz who is on this list thanks to his 40 stolen bases and a single home run.

NL East Standings

Team

Record

GB

Action Today

Atlanta

53-27

-

Off

Miami

47-34

6.5

@ Boston

Philadelphia

42-37

10.5

@ CHC

NYM

36-44

17.0

Hosts Milwaukee 

Washington

32-48

21.0

Off

We wrote it

I tackled Braves Today's coverage of the series finale 3-0 win and the sweep of the Minnesota Twins. I wrote about Kolby Allard's impressive day.

Allard was exceptional in his first start of the season. He struck out eight Twins batters in 4.2 innings before being pulled from the mound and being cheered by the fans in Truist Park.
It's been well-documented that Atlanta's arms have been battling injury and seeing Allard bring respectable heat to knock out four scoreless innings to help seal the sweep was a welcome surprise for the Atlanta Braves.
Also worth noting is his almost perfect first inning where he struck out all three batters in the first with 14 pitches. All three generated a swing-and-miss.

Here are the rest of the takeaways from the action.

Watch the Atlanta Braves vs the Minnesota Twins highlights

What's next for the Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves will get an off day before hosting the Miami Marlins on Friday night.

First pitch for the series is at 7:20 ET. The game broadcast, with Voice of the Braves Brandon Gaudin, is available inside Braves Country on Bally Sports South and is available on MLB.TV outside of the broadcast area. The radio call, with Ben Ingram, is available locally on 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan or outside the Atlanta market on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network or MLB.com.

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ZAC BLACKERBY

Zac Blackerby is the publisher of Auburn Daily and Braves Today. He is also the host of Locked On Auburn and the College Channel Manager for the Locked On Podcast Network. Blackerby was previously the program director of the Auburn Network and hosted shows on ESPN 106.7 and WANI. He also used to be the editor for Auburn Wire and Fly War Eagle.

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