Ronald Acuña Jr. has undergone the very famous Topps treatment.
The Atlanta Braves superstar has been selected by Taboo as the cover athlete for Topps’ Series 1 baseball trading cards for the 2024 season.
Acuña is introduced in each box of cardsas well as the wrapper used for the pack.
A regular box contains seven packs of 12 cards, but fans can also purchase a hobby box. 20 dozen card packseach pack contains at least one card with a player’s autograph or memorabilia.
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Ronald Acuña Jr. of the Atlanta Braves poses with his National League Most Valuable Player Award at the 2024 BBWAA Awards Dinner at the New York Hilton Midtown on January 27, 2024 in New York City. (Sarah Steer/Getty Images)
Acuña surpassed the “MVP candidate” category in 2023, winning the award thanks to a season that rewrote the history books. In fact, he added a chapter to the history books.
The outfielder founded his exclusive club while posting 217 hits, the most in the major leagues, as a member of the 104-win team that won the National League East division for six consecutive years.
Entering last year, no player had hit 40 home runs while stealing 50 bases in a season (there had been four players with 40-40 seasons). But Acuña took it to another level this year, taking advantage of a bigger bag and hitting 41 home runs and stealing not 50, but 60, and 73 bases.
Ronald Acuña Jr. is the cover athlete for this year’s Topps Series 1 trading cards. (tops)
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Acuña also led the majors with 149 points, 383 total bases, and an on-base percentage of .416, and his OPS of 1.012 was tops in the National League (3rd in MLB). He also had a batting average of .337, the second-best mark in the majors.
The 26-year-old outfielder was named an All-Star for the fourth consecutive year (excluding 2020, when there was no Midsummer Classic) and won his third Silver Slugger Award. His 106 RBIs were a career high.
Acuña’s previous highest ranking in the voting was fifth in 2019, his second year in the majors. He certainly would have been in the race in 2021 if he hadn’t torn his ACL in the 82nd game of the season.
Atlanta Braves player Ronald Acuña Jr. (13 number). (Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images)
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Acuña was limited to 119 games in 2022 while recovering from an injury, hitting career lows of .266/.351/.413. But everyone knows that a perfectly healthy Acuña can cause damage.
Topps turns 35 this year. This season’s design was created by Robert Grape and was inspired by the company’s first Series 1 release in 1989.
FOX News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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