Among baseball’s budding attractions is an athlete who doesn’t hit homers, strike out batters or make dazzling plays.

His name is Nigel Talton, and he’s known around the Atlanta Braves’ SunTrust Park as “The Freeze.”

The former member of the Braves’ ground crew is the seemingly unbeatable headliner of a between-innings promotion called “Beat the Freeze.”

Wearing an arctic blue and white spandex outfit with hood and goggles, “The Freeze” gives challengers — Braves fans picked randomly — a huge head start in a footrace around the outfield warning track, going left to right.  

Once “The Freeze” kicks into gear, he makes up the staggered start in a flash and blows past his challengers like a sleek Lamborghini leaving a clunker in its dust.

“I’m just having fun. I don’t have no pressure,” he told 13WMAZ, the CBS affiliate in Macon, Ga. “Win or lose, I’m entertaining the fans.

“Running track is kind of stressful,” he continued. “But I know this will take the stress away.”

Talton, 26, boasts legitimate speed. He harbors hopes of making the U.S. Indoor Track and Field National Team in 2018 that will compete in the World Games in England.

He hasn’t given up dreams of qualifying for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

He is no overnight sensation. Before become “The Freeze,” he was a track star at Peach County High School in Fort Valley, Ga., and later at Iowa Western Community College and Shorter University in Rome, Ga.

In 2012, he finished second in the NAIA Indoor 60-meter Nationals.

His personal track bests are 6.73 seconds for 60 meters, 10.47 for 100 meters and 21.66 for 200 meters.

Talton joined the Atlanta Braves grounds crew in 2012. It wasn’t until last year — the team’s final season at Turner Field — that Talton began morphing into “The Freeze.” It started with a between-inning promotion called the “Stolen Base Challenge.”

That involved a chosen fan running from the warning track, picking up a base on the edge of the infield and running back to the warning track with the base in tow — all within 20 seconds.

Few fans succeeded, so Talton figured he’d give it a try.

“I think I did in 13 or 14 seconds,” he said.

Soon after, the idea of “The Freeze” was put in motion.

Talton’s “day job” is really a night job, serving as the graveyard shift security guard — midnight to 8 a.m. — at an Atlanta area school.

He also trains with the Kennesaw State University track team.

To date, no fan seems capable of giving Talton a competitive run. That’s why he has issued a challenge to Cincinnati Reds outfielder Billy Hamilton, arguably the fastest man in baseball. The Reds will visit Atlanta Aug. 18 through 20.

“I hope The Freeze can get an opportunity to run him,” said Talton, referring to himself in the third person. “But I won’t give Billy a head start.”