Braves' Freeman celebrates his new baby 'twins with a twist'

Freddie Freeman found a way to top the double honors of winning the NL MVP and Hank Aaron Award.

The Atlanta Braves first baseman's bigger thrill is having two new baby boys. He describes his babies, Brandon and Maximus Turner, as his “twins with a twist.”

The twist is they were born six weeks apart.

Freeman's wife, Chelsea, gave birth to Brandon on Dec. 30. A surrogate mother gave birth to Maximus Turner on Feb. 14, delaying Freeman's arrival to spring training by about a week.

The boys join Charlie, who is 4, to give Freeman three sons — and an extraordinary story of faith, perseverance and parenthood.

“Pretty special offseason, all the way around, baseball and obviously personal life,” Freeman said Tuesday.

“We’re a family of five now. It’s pretty amazing.”

Freeman said his wife was told she may not be able to have another child following Charlie's birth by emergency cesarean section. The couple tried without luck for two years in their attempt to become pregnant again.

“It just wasn’t happening,” Freeman said. “We chose the surrogate route and nine days before the embryo transfer, I come home from a workout and Chelsea tells me she’s pregnant. I was like just shocked. Not something we were expecting at all.”

Freddie and Chelsea stayed with their new surrogate plan and made preparations for two babies in their home.

“It's everything you could want and more,” he said. “It’s such a crazy situation to try and wrap your mind around it, but when you’re in it and both boys are here it’s like the best thing that could have happened.”

While his wife is home with the babies, Freeman and several family members, including his father and grandfather, have Charlie in North Port, Florida for spring training. He said being away from...

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