Max Fried
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Fried with the New York Yankees in 2025 | |||||||||||||||
| New York Yankees – No. 54 | |||||||||||||||
| Pitcher | |||||||||||||||
| Born: January 18, 1994 Santa Monica, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Left Throws: Left | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| August 8, 2017, for the Atlanta Braves | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through June 15, 2025) | |||||||||||||||
| Win–loss record | 82–38 | ||||||||||||||
| Earned run average | 2.96 | ||||||||||||||
| Strikeouts | 953 | ||||||||||||||
| WHIP | 1.14 | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Max Dorian Fried (/ˈfriːd/ FREED; born January 18, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Atlanta Braves.
Fried was selected by the San Diego Padres in the first round, seventh overall of the 2012 MLB draft. He was traded to the Braves in 2014, and made his MLB debut with them in 2017. His 17 wins in 2019 were 2nd-most in the National League, and his seven wins in 2020 were again 2nd-most in the NL. Fried pitched 6 shut-out innings in the final game of the 2021 World Series against the Houston Astros, helping lead the Braves to their first World Series title in 26 years. Through 2023, Fried had the best career win–loss percentage of all Braves pitchers, at .705.
In 2020, Fried won the NL Gold Glove Award at pitcher and the Fielding Bible Award at pitcher. In 2021, he won the Gold Glove Award again, as well as the Silver Slugger Award for pitchers, becoming the third pitcher in MLB history to win both awards in the same year. He was also named to the All-MLB Team those two years. In 2022, he was named an All-Star for the first time in his career and won his third consecutive Gold Glove Award at pitcher. In 2024, he was again an All-Star.