Braun is one of the highest-drafted Jewish ballplayers in the history of professional baseball. Braun was considered the best Jewish minor league baseball prospect in 2006, and became major league baseball's first Jewish Rookie of the Year the following season. In each of 2007 and 2008, Braun hit more home runs (34 and 37) than all but 3 of the top 10 career Jewish home run hitters had hit in their best seasons. Only Hank Greenberg (58), Shawn Green (49), and Al Rosen (43) hit more in a single year. On June 8, 2019, he hit his 332nd home run, passing Hank Greenberg to become the all-time Jewish career home run leader. Through the 2019 season, he was the all-time Jewish career leader in home runs, with 344, his 1,128 RBIs and .533 career slugging percentage placed him 2nd on the career all-time lists of Jewish major leaguers (directly behind Hank Greenberg), and his 215 stolen bases placed him 2nd behind Ian Kinsler. His .298 batting average placed him 3rd (behind Hank Greenberg), his 401 doubles placed him 3rd (behind Ian Kinsler), his 48 triples placed him 3rd (behind Lipman Pike), his 579 walks placed him 7th (behind Al Rosen), and his .360 on base percentage placed him tied for 9th (with Ron Blomberg).