{"id":372490,"date":"2024-03-03T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=372490"},"modified":"2024-03-03T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T18:02:04","slug":"12-year-old-brother-of-ronald-acuna-verbally-agrees-to-sign-with-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=372490","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old brother of Ronald Acu\u00f1a verbally agrees to sign with Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Phillies are betting that reigning MVP Ronald Acu\u00f1a’s talent transcends to his younger siblings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Phillies verbally agreed to a deal with the star outfielder’s 12-year-old brother Kenny Acu\u00f1a, according to\u00a0<\/span>H\u00e9ctor G\u00f3mez<\/span><\/a>. The deal would become official when the preteen is eligible to sign in the international free agent class in January 2028.<\/span><\/p>\n

Philadelphia has reason to be optimistic about the potential of this young player. Ronald has been a star since his Rookie of the Year campaign in 2018, which he followed with a 41 home runs\/37 steals second season. That set the stage for 2023, where, after a trio of seasons shortened due to injury and COVID restrictions, he posted a historic season of 41 home runs and 73 stolen bases.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the minor leagues sits 21-year-old Luisangel Acu\u00f1a, ranked a top-100 prospect by multiple outlets, including MLB Pipeline (66), Keith Law (45), and MLB Prospectus (76). In double-A last year, he hit .294 with nine home runs and 57 stolen bases in 121 games.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next up is Kenny, who is shown swinging the bat in this Instagram video posted by Guillermo Arcay and shared to social media platform X by G\u00f3mez:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A post shared by Guillermo Arcay (@guillermoarcay)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Alex Salazar Academy in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, where Ronald has also trained<\/a>, posted a video of the 12-year-old infielder hitting a home run in batting practice:<\/p>\n

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A post shared by alexsalazaracademy (@alexsalazaracademy)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenny Acu\u00f1a, the 12-year-old brother of MLB star Ronald Acu\u00f1a, has verbally agreed to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies once eligible.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372492,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372490\/revisions\/372492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}