{"id":3720,"date":"2011-11-06T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2011-11-06T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:48:04","slug":"belated-congrats-to-mccann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/11\/06\/belated-congrats-to-mccann\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Congrats To McCann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my disgust, dare I say dismay, over the epic collapse down the stretch by the Braves, I wrote precious little about ATL.  At some point, I suppose I will recover, but right now it will due to just offer the Braves\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/atlanta-braves-blog\/2011\/11\/02\/braves-mccann-takes-fifth-silver-slugger-award\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/atlanta-braves-blog\/2011\/11\/02\/braves-mccann-takes-fifth-silver-slugger-award\/', 'McCann congratulations');\" target=\"_blank\">McCann congratulations<\/a> on yet another Silver Slugger award.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCann became the first player to win five Silver Sluggers as a Brave and only the sixth catcher to win five or more in his career, and he\u2019s only 27. Silver Sluggers are awarded to the top offensive players at each position as voted on by players and managers.<\/p>\n<p>McCann led all National League catchers with 24 home runs and he drove in 71 runs, while hitting .270 with a .351 on-base percentage. He beat out Yadier Molina of the Cardinals who hit .305 with 14 homers and 65 RBIs, and Arizona\u2019s Miguel Montero, who hit .282 with 18 homers and 86 RBIs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like McCann is in some pretty elite company.<\/p>\n<p>Go Braves!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my disgust, dare I say dismay, over the epic collapse down the stretch by the Braves, I wrote precious little about ATL. At some point, I suppose I will recover, but right now it will due to just offer the Braves\u2019 McCann congratulations on yet another Silver Slugger award. McCann became the first player &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/11\/06\/belated-congrats-to-mccann\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belated Congrats To McCann<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,61],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}