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Atlanta exercised Ozuna's $16 million club option for 2025, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reports. The transaction was a given after Ozuna batted .302/.378/.546 with 39 home runs and 104 RBI in 2024. He is a full-time designated hitter at this point in his career, having not played a single inning in the outfield this season, but Ozuna should be a middle-of-the-order force again in 2025 in what will be his age-34 season.
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Atlanta president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos said Friday that the team plans to exercise Ozuna's $16 million club option for 2025, Grant McAuley of 92.9 The Game Atlanta reports. The decision was a gimme after Ozuna slashed .302/.378/.546 with 39 home runs and 104 RBI in 2024. The veteran slugger didn't play a single inning in the outfield this season, so Jorge Soler will have to play the outfield in 2025 if Atlanta intends on him being a regular next season. It's not ideal from a defensive standpoint, but Atlanta wasn't going to let Ozuna walk after he was the team's best offensive player in 2024.
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Ozuna went 3-for-4 with a solo home run, two doubles, two runs scored and two total RBI during Wednesday's 7-1 win over the Reds. Ozuna snapped a streak of 26 games without a home run, taking Tony Santillan yard in the seventh inning. In September, Ozuna is 17-for-56 (.304) with seven runs, two RBI and almost as many walks (10) as strikeouts (11).
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Ozuna went 3-for-3 with a three-run homer, a walk and three runs scored in Saturday's win over the Angels. Ozuna crushed a hanging slider from Griffin Canning 437 feet over the wall in center field in his first at-bat to score Michael Harris and Austin Riley, giving the veteran slugger his 36th long ball of the campaign and his fifth this month. Ozuna added two leadoff singles in the contest, marking his second consecutive three-hit performance and his sixth multi-hit effort in his last 10 games overall. Over that latter stretch, he's batting .428 (18-for-42) with four homers, seven RBI and nine runs scored.
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Ozuna went 3-for-4 with a walk and a run scored in Friday's 3-2 loss to the Angels. Ozuna was the only Atlanta batter to record multiple hits in the contest. He's shown no signs of slowing down in August, going 19-for-61 (.311) with four homers over 15 contests this month. He's up to a .302/.374/.580 slash line, 35 home runs, 90 RBI, 75 runs scored and 23 doubles across 122 games this season.
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| Year | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | BB | KO | SB | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ATL | 162 | 606 | 96 | 183 | 39 | 104 | 74 | 170 | 1 | .302 |
| 2023 | ATL | 144 | 530 | 84 | 145 | 40 | 100 | 57 | 134 | 0 | .273 |
| 2022 | ATL | 124 | 470 | 56 | 106 | 23 | 56 | 31 | 122 | 2 | .225 |
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| vs LUCCHESI (CAREER) | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| vs LHP | 138/465 | 0.30 | 34 | 80 | 1 | 53 | 123 |
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| 9/30 | vs  |
8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
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4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9/28 | vs |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 9/27 | vs |
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9/24 | vs |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9/22 | @  |
5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
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4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |