Austin Riley
Austin Riley was born in Memphis, Tennessee, United States on April 2nd, 1997 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 27, Austin Riley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Michael Austin Riley (born April 2, 1997) is an American professional baseball third baseman and outfielder for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. (MLB) is a licensed baseball writer and outfielder.
Early life
Austin Riley is Mike and Elisa Riley's eldest son. Riley played baseball as a shortstop and pitcher at DeSoto Central High School in Southaven, Mississippi, where he competed baseball as a shortstop and pitcher. During his freshman and sophomore years in high school, Riley played American football as a quarterback. Despite the fact that he expressed a desire to abandon football and concentrate on baseball, the football coach preferred to keep Riley as a punter, a position his father held at Mississippi State University. Riley didn't sign up for the Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team until he was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in 2015. Riley had the opportunity to play football for the Bulldogs as a punter, which MSU had also given him the opportunity to play football for the Bulldogs.
Personal life
In November 2018, Riley and his partner, Anna, were married. They live in Coldwater, Mississippi. They revealed in October 2021 that they were expecting their first child and that their son was born in April 2022.
Keegan James, Riley's cousin, went to Mississippi State and played baseball there. In the 25th round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft, the Colorado Rockies selected James.
Career
In the 2015 MLB draft, the Atlanta Braves selected Riley in the first round, making them the 41st overall pick. Riley, who had been committed to the Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, has chosen the Braves to join the team for $1.6 million. Riley made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast Braves this season. He was promoted to the Danville Braves in the Appalachian League after 30 games. He batted 304/.389/.544 with 12 home runs in more than 217 at-bats, while on defense he made 16 mistakes for a.908 fielding percentage in 60 games.
Riley appeared for the Rome Braves of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2016. He batted.271/.324/.479. He made 30 errors at third base on defense.
Riley, the Braves' non-roster player, was drafted to spring training in 2017. He began his 2017 season with the Florida Fire Frogs of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League. In July, he was promoted to the Mississippi Braves of the Class AA Southern League. Riley was.275/.446 with 20 home runs and 74 RBIs in 129 games between Florida and Mississippi, while on defense he made 20 errors at third base. At the end of the minor league regular season, he was assigned to the Peoria Javelinas of the Arizona Fall League. Riley was invited to spring training prior to the 2018 season. Prior to the season, he was ranked as one of the top prospects in the minor leagues.
He started with Mississippi and batted.333 with six home runs and 20 RBIs in 27 games, and was promoted to the Gwinnett Stripers in May. With 12 home runs and 47 RBI, he achieved.282/.464/.810 in 75 games with Gwinnett. With Gwinnett, he began the 2019 season.
Riley was activated by the Atlanta Braves ahead of their game against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 15, 2019. Since Ender Inciarte was put on the injured list, Riley was promoted. In his second at bat, he made his major league debut that night and scored a home run off Michael Wacha. Riley's first grand slam in fourteen games and raising his RBI total to twenty in May 29, 2019. His seven home runs in fourteen games were his second most to begin a career, trailing only Trevor Story (Aristides Aquino has since passed them all with nine). He made his eighth home run in 16 games on June 1, his eighth home run in 16 games, making him the fourth player in major league baseball history to do so. He was also the fastest player in Braves franchise history to do so. Despite only playing in 15 games, Riley received the NL Rookie of the Month Award for May 2019.
Riley was put on the 10-day injured list due to a right knee injury, retroactive to August 5. Riley's lateral collateral ligament ligament ligament ligament tear was discovered while working out, which was later revealed. Riley began rehab with the Rome Braves on August 22, and the Gwinnett Stripers started to recover as of September 1.
In 2019, he batted.276/.471 with 18 home runs and 49 RBIs in 274 at bats, six at first base, five at third base, five in third base, and two in right field.
In 188 at bats, he batted.239/.415 with 8 home runs and 27 RBIs. He played primarily third base (46 games), with four games apiece at first base and in left field. His six errors were the third most among NL third basemen.
Riley made a big change to his at bats this season, going 8-for-44 with no extra-base hits, and not to throw at the sliders that pitchers had used against him in previous years. Riley was promoted to cleanup hitter, where he helped the Braves return to the top of the NL East after batting in the back half of the lineup from late May.
He finished the 2021 season with.303 home runs (21st in the NL), 168 strikeouts (4th), and a.898 OPS, naming Eddie Mathews and Chipper Jones as the only Atlanta third basemen to reach.300 with at least 100 RBIs and 100 RBIs in a season, whether you're 18 years old or younger. The Ozzie Albies had similar numbers, and the pair became the fifth group of teammates to produce 100-RBI seasons at the age of 24 or younger. His 14 errors on defense were second-most among NL third basemen, while his 300 assists ranked first.
Riley hit his first walk-off in Game 1 of the NLCS against the Los Angeles Dodgers on October 16, 2021, allowing Ozzie Albies to score and the Braves to win 32-02. Riley had 2 hits and 1 RBI in Game 6 to help the Braves close the series out. Riley's first World Series ring was earned by the Braves as they go on to win the 2021 World Series. Riley and three others (Freddie Freeman, Max Fried, and Ozzie Albies) received the Silver Slugger Awards for their respective positions after the season ended.
Riley was eligible for salary arbitration for the first time since the 2022 season. He had intended to make $4.25 million but was instead given $3.95 million. For the first time in his career, Riley received Player of the Week awards on July 11, 2022. Riley was named in the MLB All Star Team on July 16 as a health substitute for Nolan Arenado. In July, Riley set a franchise record by hitting 26 more base hits. He received the NL Player of the Month award for July 2022, the first such award in his career. Riley had been signed to a ten-year contract extension, worth $212 million, according to the Braves on August 1. The deal is the longest in team history, outstripping the length and total value of an agreement signed by teammate Matt Olson before the 2022 season began. Riley ran his thirtieth home run on August 9, beating Hank Aaron 111 games to tie for the most franchise players to reach triples and thirty home runs in the same season.