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Braves’ Freddie Freeman tomahawk chops with Georgia Aquarium sea lion

Batter pup! Beck the sea lion pup and Atlanta Braves all-star first baseman Freddie Freeman tomahawk-chopped together at the Georgia Aquarium this week. Twitter/Georgia Aquarium
Batter pup! Beck the sea lion pup and Atlanta Braves all-star first baseman Freddie Freeman tomahawk-chopped together at the Georgia Aquarium this week. Twitter/Georgia Aquarium
By Jill Vejnoska
April 8, 2016

It looks like there’s another MVP in town.

Most valuable sea lion pup, that is.

With an off day this week, Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman did what so many other locals and tourists do when they’re in town: Visit the Georgia Aquarium.

“Fun day at the @georgiaaquarium ! Thank you for our tour,” Chelsea Freeman, the slugger’s wife, posted on Instagram. “Freddie even got to do the tomahawk chop with a baby sea lion.”

Did he ever. Beck is part of the barking, flipper-flapping pack drawing raves in the SunTrust Pier 225 sea lion gallery and show, one of two new Aquarium attractions. And he already knows how to use his flipper to cheer the Braves on, as an adorable GIF the Aquarium posted on its Twitter account of the pup tomahawk chopping alongside Freeman makes clear.

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