The 2019 season was yet another strong campaign in what has been a consistent 10-year run for the Atlanta Braves’ first baseman.
In June of 2017, the Atlanta Braves selected a tall and lanky kid from El Modena High School, a school nestled in the outskirts of Orange, Calif. — 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles and just a 20-minute stroll from the Pacific Ocean.
The Braves chose Freddie Freeman in the 2nd round of that 2007 MLB Draft, and at a time when the sport’s coverage of amateur prospects was nowhere near the exclusive level it is today… it was still widely decided that Freeman was destined to be great.