{"id":2093,"date":"2010-11-30T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2010-11-30T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:46:17","slug":"freddie-freeman-takes-batting-practice-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2093","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Freeman Takes Batting Practice (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/freddiefreeman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2097\" title=\"freddiefreeman\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/freddiefreeman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we briefly mentioned last week, the Atlanta Braves have <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2043\" target=\"_blank\">cleared the way<\/a> at first base for power hitting prospect, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/freemfr01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Freddie  Freeman<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 With a physique similar to that of <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1833\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Belt<\/a> of the San Francisco Giants, the 6\u20195,\u201d 225 pound Freeman is poised to make an impact in 2011, hitting in the middle of the Braves order alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/heywaja01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jason  Heyward<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted by the Braves in the second round of the 2007 MLB Amateur Draft, Freeman was ranked by Baseball America as the 32<sup>nd<\/sup> best prospect in all of baseball headed into the 2010 season.\u00a0 And at just 20-years of age, in his first season at Triple-A Gwinnett, the left-handed hitting youngster demonstrated exactly why he was deserving of such a prominent ranking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Playing in 124 games for Gwinnett, Freeman slashed .319\/.378\/.521 with 35 doubles, 18 home runs, and 87 RBI.\u00a0 Additionally, he drew 43 walks while striking out 84 times in 519 plate appearances.\u00a0 He was rewarded for his impressive season at Triple-A with a call-up in September when the rosters were expanded.\u00a0 However, he did not see the immediate success at the Major League level as he had in the Minors, hitting .167 with a double, home run, and RBI in 24 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>While Freeman\u2019s cup of coffee was far from impressive, Braves fans have nothing to worry about as the first baseman will have the entire 2011 season &#8212; rather than just a few weeks &#8212; to adjust to Major League pitching.\u00a0 Their willingness to call him up in the heat of pennant race speaks volumes about the confidence that the Braves have in the young slugger.\u00a0 And after watching this video of Freeman taking batting practice in 2009, you will see exactly why:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1e3cm24LM7Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1e3cm24LM7Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we briefly mentioned last week, the Atlanta Braves have cleared the way at first base for power hitting prospect, Freddie Freeman.\u00a0 With a physique similar to that of Brandon Belt of the San Francisco Giants, the 6\u20195,\u201d 225 pound Freeman is poised to make an impact in 2011, hitting in the middle of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,9,11,13,10,14,775],"tags":[589,1261,1393,1364,1394,1398,1395,55,1396,584,1397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}