The Atlanta Braves are the most fortunate team in Major League Baseball, and not only because of those other things.

It’s because of the Ronald Acuna things.

The health and the money.

About the health . . .

“Last year when I got hit, any pain I felt in my body was magnified on my knee,” Acuna told me this week through an interpreter as the front runner for National League Most Valuable Player honors stood at his Braves locker at Truist Park in Atlanta. He pointed to his right leg that suffered a complete tear two years ago of the anterior cruciate ligament, and he added, “Now I’m healthy, and that’s the most important thing.”

For verification, see Acuna’s otherworldly numbers.

But let’s get those other things out of the way, and they’ve pushed the Braves toward baseball’s best record at 78-42: The suffocating offense that pounds opponents early and often. A pitching staff ranked sixth overall in team ERA despite spending much of the season missing its left-handed ace (Max Fried) and the game’s winningest hurler in 2022 (Kyle Wright).

Speed, defense and everything in between.

Now add to that the sixth and most dynamic Major League season for Acuna, and the Braves are ridiculous.

Acuna nearly is Roberto Clemente in right field with his potent glove and arm. He’s also becoming Willie Mays, Barry Bonds and Mickey Mantle elsewhere through his ability to crush home runs one moment and swipe bases the next.

Thus the question: Does Acuna’s early flirtation with Cooperstown make the Braves fortunate?

Yes, but not as much as those Acuna things.

About the money . . .

In the spring of 2019, when greatness was only potential instead of reality for somebody who was 21 years old after grabbing the National League Rookie of the Year award the season before, Braves officials did the omniscient, which evolved into the fortunate. They made Acuna the youngest Major Leaguer ever to receive a $100 million contract, and it was over eight years.

Without that deal, Acuna is an unrestricted free agent in 2024. He becomes so after his current season in which he already is beyond extraordinary. He’s hitting .335 with 27 home runs, 73 RBIs and a Major League-leading 55 stolen bases. He also tops baseball in runs scored with 109 and on-base percentage at .422.

And Acuna won’t turn 26 until December.

Without that deal, the Braves contemplate doing something like this to keep Acuna from bolting as a free agent with a bunch of suitors: Take out a second mortgage on The Battery, the home of Truist Park and their $1.1 billion complex of business and entertainment.

Without that deal, this strikingly harmonious clubhouse for the Braves implodes into something significantly less than that with Shohei Ohtani-type speculation about Acuna’s future.

With that deal, the Braves are fortunate.

Which brings us back to Acuna and health.

He already has played in more games (120) this year than he did last season or any other since he signed that deal four years ago with the Braves. He celebrated the rest of 2019 by ripping 41 homers and stealing an NL-high 37 bases.

Nevertheless, Acuna became injury prone — fingers, hands, back, legs.

Then there was the biggie in July 2021 when Acuna jumped the wrong way pursuing a flyball in right for that ACL tear to end his season.

The Braves won the World Series anyway.

They were fortunate.

Just as they are now with a healthy Acuna since he has slammed away that “injury prone” tag this season as easily as he has pitches.

All you need to know is that nobody in the Major Leagues has more plate appearances than the 555 of this Braves’ leadoff hitter who keeps playing and prospering despite bumps and bruises from getting hit by pitches (seven) or from tweaking something after swinging, throwing, fielding or sliding.

Is this partly luck?

“Absolutely, I think that has a lot to do with it,” Acuna continued to say through the interpreter. “You can be hit some place, and you can break a bone, and you can be injured. Other times, you can be hit, and nothing happens.”

Yeah, but is there also something else?

To hear Braves third baseman Austin Riley tell it, Acuna is discovering baseball’s secret for longevity.

“Staying healthy is kind of the name of the game in the sense of trying to be out there every day,” Riley said. “Playing 162 games, it’s a long season, and you’re not going to feel 100 percent every day. But obviously, him not being 100 percent those years, he was still pretty impressive.

“The biggest thing is, with Ronald not going through injuries before and stuff like that, it’s about understanding, ‘If I get hit by a pitch, whether it’s serious or not,’ and I think he’s learning that, and I think that’s allowing him after getting hit to stay in games the next day and stuff.”

Which means the following: Since Acuna is figuring out that injury thing, the Braves are even more fortunate.