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• Braves News: Atlanta hosts Padres, Spencer Schwellenbach’s Double-A debut, and more

Set Number: X164348 TK1 Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday. The Atlanta Braves continue the homestand with a four-game set against the San Diego Padres this weekend. The Braves enter play 26-14 after a series win against the Cubs earlier this week. Atlanta is three games behind the division lead and is seeking another series win. The Padres are just below .500 with a 22-24 rec...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Schwellenbach shines in Double-A debut

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Schwellenbach struck out nine batters across six frames for Mississippi. Mississippi got a pair of incredible performances on the mound from two of Atlanta’s top prospects on Wednesday as the Braves swept both games in their Double-A doubleheader in what was a full day of action down on the farm. (20-21) Gwinnett Stripers 3, (21-20) Memphis...2024
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Smith-Shawver’s two starts and EJ Exposito’s hot streak

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images News, notes, and a preview of the upcoming week of Braves minor league baseball As part of our efforts to expand the minor league content we provide at Battery Power, my aim moving forward will be to fill the gap in minor league coverage that we have every Tuesday with sort of all-encompassing article covering the news of the past week ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy strikes out eight for Rome

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Murphy tossed five innings in the win for the Emperors. Outside of a few individual performances, it was an overall rough day down on the farm for Atlanta’s minor league teams. Regardless, let’s dive into Wednesday’s action. (16-18) Gwinnett Stripers 1, (14-20) Charlotte Knights 8 Eli White, CF: 2-4, RBI Forrest Wall, RF: 1-4, R Dylan Dodd,...2024
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• Braves News: Pitching on the farm, short sweep of Boston, more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Many of Atlanta’s top prospects pitched on the farm, with mixed results, while Chris Sale took charge at the highest level and dominated his old team, helping to secure the two game sweep. Owen Murphy was one of those prospects and he continued his absolutely dominant level this season, striking out 8 batters over 5.0 innings of work. Hur...2024
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• Braves News: Sean Murphy update, extra inning thriller in LA, and more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves have been without catcher Sean Murphy for a month, after he suffered an oblique strain on March 29. And although it was just a Grade 1 strain, the club has not provided a timetable for his return. Murphy resumed catching work nearly two weeks ago, but up until now, he had yet...2024
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• Braves News: Atlanta hosts Padres, Spencer Schwellenbach’s Double-A debut, and more
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Smith-Shawver’s two starts and EJ Exposito’s hot streak
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• Braves News: Pitching on the farm, short sweep of Boston, more
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• Braves Mailbag: Offensive struggles, Marcell Ozuna extension, AJ Smith-Shawver and more

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images This week’s mailbag discusses Atlanta’s recent offensive struggles, a Marcell Ozuna extension, AJ Smith-Shawver and much more A big thank you to everyone who took time to send in questions for this week’s Atlanta Braves mailbag. If I didn’t get to yours, we will do this again soon. Let’s get to it! I realize hitters have slumps, but aren’t those of Ronal...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Schwellenbach strikes out 8

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Schwellenbach dominated early in a Rome win It was a solid day for the pitching prospects in the Atlanta Braves system, with a trio of talented arms taking the mound on Saturday. Hurston Waldrep pitched a gem for Mississippi, but it was Spencer Schwellenbach who led the system in strikeouts and whiffs. (9-11) Gwinnett Stripers 2, (10-10) Me...2024
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• Braves badly need someone to step up in Spencer Strider’s absence

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports The Braves’ rotation is off to a rocky start in 2024. The Braves confirmed the dreaded news we were all anticipating on Saturday morning: Spencer Strider had undergone surgery in his right elbow to repair a damaged UCL. He will miss the remainder of the season, a blow that the Braves will have to overcome and maneuver over the next 150 games and (presumably)...2024
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• Braves News: Weekend sweep, 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th and more

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports The Braves get off to a great start in their first home series of the season. The Braves decided to take a more traditional route to a victory in their 5-2 win over the Diamondbacks on Sunday, completing an impressive sweep of one of the better squads in the National League. Chris Sale was solid on the mound while the Braves flexed their power bats to get thei...2024
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• Spencer Strider’s MRI reveals damaged UCL, further evaluations pending

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A pretty devastating blow to the organization, and the Braves will have to find a way to soldier on During a pretty somber Saturday afternoon press conference, the Braves held fast to the premise that no news is good news, and the presence of news, well, sucks: Spencer Strider today underwent an MRI that revealed damage to the ul...2024
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• Braves Mailbag: Playoff struggles, 2024 sleeper and more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images This week’s mailbag includes questions about the Braves rotation, Max Fried’s next contract, and sleeper candidates. Thanks to everyone that sent in questions for this week’s Atlanta Braves mailbag. We will be doing more of these throughout the regular season. Let’s get to it! The Braves’ offensive approach clearly works during the re...2024
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"com/lTHRyPySgo— Bally Sports South (@BallySportsSO) February 14, 2024 Hurston Waldrep will be one of the most watched Braves pitchers in spring camp."

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"Jesse Chavez looks ever more ready to return to Atlanta following another strong outing, and Hurston Waldrep ended his season with Mississippi on a strong note."

• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Smith-Shawver’s two starts and EJ Exposito’s hot streak
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• Braves News: Sean Murphy update, extra inning thriller in LA, and more
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• Braves Mailbag: Offensive struggles, Marcell Ozuna extension, AJ Smith-Shawver and more
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Schwellenbach strikes out 8
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• Braves badly need someone to step up in Spencer Strider’s absence
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep, Spencer Schwellenbach make season debuts

Hurston Waldrep | Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Two of the Braves top overall prospects made their season debuts on Sunday, with Waldrep in Double-A and Schwellenbach in High-A. Sunday looked to be a promising day with both Hurston Waldrep and Spencer Schwellenbach making their season debuts, though one was excellent and the other struggled. A pair of guys in c...2024
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• Braves News: Weekend sweep, 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th and more
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• Braves Mailbag: Playoff struggles, 2024 sleeper and more
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• As Spencer Strider gets the Opening Day start, there’s likely a changing of the guard happening in Atlanta

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves will have a new Opening Day Starter for the 2024 season. The impact of who the Opening Day starter is for a baseball team is largely overrated. After that first game, every team’s rotation schedule gets thrown out of whack by off-days, injuries, rainouts, 6-man rotations, 4-man rotations, bullpen games, etc, etc. This is not college baseball where ...2024
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• Braves top 30 prospects assignment projections

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Where will your favorite prospect end up? The winter blues are thankfully drawing to a close, and minor league baseball is on the horizon. In ten days the Gwinnett Stripers will open their season, kicking off another season of Atlanta Braves minor league baseball. We should get official rosters sometime next week, but for now all I...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Schwellenbach shines in Double-A debut
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• AJ Smith-Shawver, Hurston Waldrep tumble in updated Baseball America Top 100

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s been a rough start for Atlanta’s top two prospects, and BA reflected that in their May rankings update One month of minor league baseball is in the books, and the good folks over at Baseball America rolled out an updated look at their top 100 prospects. For the Atlanta Braves it was the same two names as preseason, but both of thei...2024
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• Braves Mailbag: Offensive struggles, Marcell Ozuna extension, AJ Smith-Shawver and more
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep has strong outing

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Waldrep’s up-and-down 2024 continues as he allowed no earned runs over 5 2⁄3 innings. There have been a lot of rough outings for the Atlanta Braves 2023 first round pick, but on this day Hurston Waldrep was the clear best player in the system as he shut down the Pensacola lineup in a win. Up in Gwinnett Dylan Dodd went for the Stri...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Garrett Baumann puts up another stellar outing for Augusta

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Baumann struck out five across six innings for the GreenJackets. All but one minor league squad lost on Friday as Augusta rode a solid outing by Garrett Baumann to a win. (12-12) Gwinnett Stripers 1, (10-15) Norfolk Tide 5 Phillip Evans, 1B: 2-4, RBI Luis Liberato, RF: 1-3, 2B, R Zach Logue, SP: 6 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 K Box Score Thin...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep, Spencer Schwellenbach make season debuts
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• Braves News: Weekend sweep, 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th and more
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• Braves Spring Training Prospects Update

Credit: Garrett Spain - Battery Power Recapping the performance of Braves prospects in camp so far With opening day inching closer and closer, we take a look at how some of the Braves prospects of note are faring during spring training. Nacho Alvarez Jr. Alvarez got off to a hot start this spring, establishing himself as one of the Braves better prospects over the first week of camp. Since...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep has strong outing
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Schwellenbach strikes out 8
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep, Spencer Schwellenbach make season debuts
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• Braves News: Weekend sweep, 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th and more
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• Spencer Strider’s MRI reveals damaged UCL, further evaluations pending
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• Braves News: Ronald Acuna Jr. injury, Chris Sale sharp again and more

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Monday could turn into a waiting game off the field. As another week begins for the Braves in Spring Training in Florida, the eyes of Braves country will actually be fixed on Los Angeles in nervous anticipation. Ronald Acuna Jr. is scheduled to receive further evaluation on his right knee from the same doctor who repaired his torn ACL in 2021. While irritati...2024
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• Spring Training storylines for the Braves as they head to North Port

Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images The fifth starter spot, the bench, and the revamped coaching staff will all be a focus in February and March Atlanta Braves pitchers and catchers will report to North Port on Wednesday, with position players scheduled to join them by next Monday, February 19. The first full squad workout will take place on February 20, and believe it or ...2024
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• Braves News: Spring Training invites, Kevin Pillar to White Sox, and more

Photo by Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday With the 2024 season just around the corner, the Atlanta Braves announced their Spring Training invites on Friday. The Braves extended 23 non-roster invites, including Hurston Waldrep and Ignacio Alvarez. Atlanta Braves Announce 2024 Spring Training Non-Roster Invitees: pic.twitter.com/NgbH6KH5q...2024
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• Braves Mailbag Part 2: Marcell Ozuna’s trade value, A.J. Minter and more

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The second part of this week’s mailbag explores Marcell Ozuna’s trade value, thoughts on A.J. Minter and more. Below is the second part of this week’s Atlanta Braves mailbag. If you missed the first part, you can find it here. Again, thank you to everyone who took the time to submit questions. We will do this again soon. How do you think the Braves wil...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Chavez dominates again in rehab outing

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Jesse Chavez is looking ready to make his return to Atlanta’s bullpen, and has six strikeouts in 3 1⁄3 innings in Gwinnett The day was not flush with offensive performances, as the Atlanta Braves affiliates combined for one run in three games outside of extra innings, but the pitching at both levels had its upside. Jesse Chavez looks ever...2023
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• Sights and sounds from the first day of Braves Spring Training

Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images Spring Training has begun for the Atlanta Braves Atlanta Braves pitchers and catchers held their first workout of the spring Wednesday in North Port. There is no better time of the year for a baseball fan. Up the steps from the #Braves dugout at CoolToday Park. First workout of Spring Training happens on Thursday. Should be just a few...2024
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• Braves promote top pick Hurston Waldrep to Rome

Photo by Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images The Braves sent their top pick in the draft to High-A after just one start with Augusta. After just one start in Augusta the Atlanta Braves have promoted their top pick in the 2023 MLB Draft, Hurston Waldrep, to High-A Rome. Waldrep was the headliner to this news, but he is being joined by Jared Johnson and Cory Acton in Rome. ROSTER MOV...2023
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• Braves reportedly willing to pay for free agent starter

Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports No Braves player currently makes more than $22 million annually, but the team is reportedly willing to go above that for the right free agent starter. MLB Free Agency is off to a slow start, but that shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Unlike the NBA and the NFL, Major League Baseball’s offseason is a more deliberate affair and the free agent market won’t like...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Michael Soroka strikeouts out nine

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Soroka was efficient with his pitches and struck out nine batters in 4 2⁄3 innings. The Atlanta Braves love to draft pitching, and that focus paid off on Saturday evening as the affiliates all had fantastic pitching performances (if you choose to ignore the GreenJackets existing tonight). Michael Soroka was on the mound for Gwinnett and struck out ni...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Michael Soroka throws a shutout

Photo Credit: Jeff Morris Soroka took advantage of a shortened contest to get a complete game in a dominant performance It was a solid day on the farm for the Atlanta Braves top prospects, and while no longer a prospect Michael Soroka led the way with a complete game shutout in a Stripers win. Vaughn Grissom also continued to show out for Gwinnett, and down in High-A Rome Hurston Waldrep m...2023
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• Braves Minor League recap: Waldrep strikes out eight in Augusta debut

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images The 2023 Braves first-rounder showed up and showed out in the full-season professional start of his career. Waldrep struck out eight batters, Drew Lugbauer homered three times and Augusta split two games on Friday in what was a full day for Atlanta’s minor league affiliates. (48-58) Gwinnett Stripers 5, (50-56) Indianapolis Indians 1 Daniel Robertson,...2023
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• Hurston Waldrep to debut with the Gwinnett Stripers tonight

The Braves top draft pick will debut at Triple-A tonight. | Photo by Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Atlanta’s top draft pick from this year’s draft will start at Triple-A tonight. The Atlanta Braves chose Hurston Waldrep in the first round of the year’s draft and seven weeks later, the right-handed pitcher out of the University of Florida will make his debut at Triple-A tonight ...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy Ks 8

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Murphy is off to a hot start with two good outings in April It was a beautiful spring day for baseball on Saturday, but the Atlanta Braves affiliates didn’t have a ton of fun as they dropped three of four games. Hurston Waldrep struggled down in Mississippi, but there were still a handful of exciting performances. Owen Murphy and Adam Maier ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep, Spencer Schwellenbach make season debuts
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• Braves vs Blue Jays Spring Training game thread

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Reynaldo Lopez will make his second spring start and Hurston Waldrep is expected to make his spring debut following Lopez. Reynaldo Lopez gets the start today, as the reporting seems to indicate that the fifth starter job is his to lose to start the season as long as he looks solid. Reynaldo allowed 1 run over 2.0 innings with 0 Ks in his first spring ...2024
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• Braves farm system ranks 26th in Keith Law’s updated rankings

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Athletic’s Keith Law released his updated farm system rankings for the 2024 season Friday and the Atlanta Braves are in the lower third coming in at No. 26. It isn’t that surprising given that the Braves had just one prospect on Law’s Top 100 list in 2023 first round pick Hurston Waldrep. Atlanta has traded everyone, almost. There’s ...2024
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• Braves have two prospects eligible for prospect promotion incentive

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Atlanta Braves have two chances to claim extra draft capital if either AJ Smith-Shawver or Hurston Waldrep were to win the 2024 Rookie of the Year Award. Looking at the big picture, that seems unlikely given that neither have a clear path to a meaty enough role in the majors at this juncture, but as they say, there is a chance. This ...2024
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• Hurston Waldrep, Ignacio Alvarez among list of Braves’ spring training invitees

Photo by Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images The Braves announced Friday a list of 23 players that will be going to big league camp this spring. Prospects Hurston Waldrep and Ignacio Alvarez are among a list of 23 players that will take part in big league camp with the Atlanta Braves. The group also includes veteran reliever Ken Giles, who has appeared in a total of nine games since...2024
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• Braves Mailbag Part 2: Marcell Ozuna’s trade value, A.J. Minter and more
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• Hurston Waldrep, Ignacio Alvarez among Baseball Prospectus’ Top 101 prospects

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Hurston Waldrep makes a huge leap into the Top 30 of Baseball Prospectus’ annual Top 101. Prospect list season officially began Tuesday with the release of Baseball Prospectus’ annual top 101 list. The Atlanta Braves were shutout in last year’s offering, but had two prospects make the cut this time around. 2023 first round pick Hurston Waldrep debuted...2024
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• Brian Snitker on Braves’ offseason, coaching staff and more

Kyle Schwab-USA TODAY Sports Brian Snitker discussed the Braves offseason and the departures from his coaching staff Tuesday at the Winter Meetings. Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker met with the media Tuesday at the Winter Meetings in Nashville and discussed the team’s offseason and the outlook heading into the spring. The Braves began the Winter Meetings by acquiring outfielder Jarre...2023
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