Outfielder Marcell Ozuna and the Atlanta Braves signed an agreement for four years and $ 64 million, the team announced in a statement this morning.
The contract includes a fifth-year option for the club that raises the banknotes to 80 million, 65 million in guaranteed money, the team said.
Ozuna aposto for his part after the 2019 season, recounting an offer of 17.8 mdd from the St. Louis Cardinals signed a $ 18 million contract with the Bravos at the end of the year. The movement valued the pen, and that the second leg ended in the JMV Voting of the National League when he was able to lead the league with 18 rebounds, 56 streaks and 145 bases in total. Fue tercero in the Liga Nacional with a .338 battering ram and a .636 slugging percentage, the best of his career.
Are you tired? The estimated offer of 17.8 million of the Cardinals’ javelin represents the 41st percent of the most successful of his career at the moment.
While considering a risk a supreme lesion in the fall in 2018, Ozuna, which will be completed 30 years in November, some action in the garden will take place with the Bravos in the reduced calendar of 60 games, the time passed, due to the pandemic. Without embarrassment, the mayor of his turn at the bat with Atlanta is producing as the team’s designated player.
Before joining the Bravos, Ozuna passed the time trial with the Cardinals, protecting Paul Goldschmidt in the relegation-threatened rematch in the playoffs in 2019. During the last five times, including 2020, Ozuna has scored 130 rebounds and calls Estrellas games with the power of his bat.
Since the start of the 2017 season, Ozuna has 357 hits, only surpassed by Nolan Arenado of the Rockies (384) over Freeman (343) among the players of the National League, in agreement with ESPN Stats & Information.
Also available in MLB, it has a .276 battery, with 166 iron ore, 594 impregnated squares and 505 sold with Marlins, Cardinals and Braves.