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Career Notes 1996 Hit the 300th HR of his career (off Chuck McElroy) on May 19 vs. Cincinnati ... 28 home runs marks the 10th straight season with 20+ home runs ... Selected to start in his fourth All-Star game ... NL player of the week for May 27-June 2, hitting .524 with three home runs ... Hit five home runs in the post season. 1995 The shortened season helped halt McGriff's consecutive seasons of at least 30 home runs at seven ... Fred ended up with a club-high 27 on the season ... Has hit at least 20 or more home runs in nine straight seasons since his rookie year in 1987 ... Selected to the All-Star team for the third time in his career and second consecutive seasons ... Led the club with 93 RBI, tied for ninth in the NL ... Tied for the lead in the NL with 144 games played ... Hit four home runs in six games May 26-June 1 and four in five games June 17-21 ... Re-signed by the Atlanta Braves as a free agent on Dec. 2, 1995. 1994 Hit 34 homers despite the strike shortened season ... .318 average is a career-high ... Hit his 250th career homer off Florida's David Weathers ... Was named NL co-Player of the Week May 9-15 when he .385 with four homers and seven RBI ... Was named the All-Star Game MVP after his game-tying homer off the AL's Lee Smith in the ninth inning set up a 10-9 NL win ... Have five RBI June 7 vs. the Giants to tie a career-high ... Had hit seven homers with 13 RBI in last 10 games and had hit safely in 16 of last 18 games when the strike cut short his hot streak ... Hit .356 with runners in scoring position and less than two out ... Hit .350 on the road ... Finished fourth in the NL in homers (34), RBI (94), total bases (264), and slugging percentage (.623). 1993 Powered Braves to 51-17 finish following his July 20 trade from San Diego ... Awarded the Silver Slugger for National League first basemen ... Finished fourth in NL Most Valuable Player voting, between teammates Dave Justice (third) and Ron Gant (fifth) ... Scored a career-high 111 runs, placing fourth in the NL ... Finished fourth in the league with 37 homers, fifth with a .549 slugging percentage and sixth with 306 total bases and 68 extra-base hits ... Batted .435 in the NL Championship Series, equaling Ozzie Smith's record for NLCS batting average ... Hit his first career postseason homer, off Philadelphia's Tommy Greene, for only the seventh right-field upper deck shot in Veterans Stadium. 1992 Became the first player in the modern era to win the home run title in both the American League and NL, belting 35 homers for San Diego (his 36 for Toronto in 1989 led the AL) ... Selected by the fans to start at first base in his first all-star game and batted 3-for-3 with an RBI ... Finished third in the league with 104 RBI ... Ranked second in the NL in walks (96) and home-run ratio (one every 15.2 at-bats), third in slugging percentage (.556), fourth in extra-base hits (69) and on-base percentage (.394), and tied for second in intentional walks (23) and for fifth in total bases (295). 1991 Drove in a career-high 106 runs ... Became the fourth NL player and 13th major leaguer to hit grand slams in consecutive games (Aug. 13-14) ... Ranked first in the NL in intentional walks (26), ninth in slugging percentage (.494) and tied for fourth in homers (31). 1990 Batted .300 for the first time ... Fourth in the AL with 35 homers ... Had three two-homer games (May 9 at Boston, July 12 at California and Sept. 2 at Cleveland) ... Traded to San Diego on Dec. 5. 1989 Led AL with 36 homers despite none in his last 24 games ... His two-run shot off Milwaukee's Don August June 5 was the first homer hit at the Sky Dome in Toronto ... Hit his first career grand slam July 21 at Seattle off Gene Harris ... Set a Toronto record with 119 walks ... Honors included Sporting News Silver Slugger team and UPI all-star team. 1988 Took over as the starting first baseman, replacing Willie Upshaw ... Led AL first basemen in fielding with a .997 percentage ... Named to major league all-star team that toured Japan at season's end ... Ranked second in AL in homers (34), slugging percentage (.525) and extra-base hits (73). 1987 Set club record for homers by a rookie, with 10 ... Hit one HR every 14.8 at-bats ... His first major league homer came April 17 off Boston's Bob Stanley. 1986 Spent most of the season at Class AAA Syracuse ... Appeared in three games for the Blue Jays in May, making his debut May 17 vs. Cleveland ... Got his first-major league hit, a single, off Cleveland's Don Schulze on May 18.
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