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• Brayden Taylor is ready for a new challenge

After treading water in Double-A Montgomery for parts of the last two seasons, here’s a hot take: Brayden Taylor appears ready for a promotion to Durham. If you look him up, his 99 wRC+ through 14 games doesn’t jump off the page, but the underlying data suggests he’s ready for a new challenge. Taylor was […]...2026
• 2026 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 27

Previous Winner Brayden Taylor, 2B/3B24 | L/R | 6’0” | 180AA | .173/.289/.286 (77 wRC+) 437 PA, 8 HR, 17 SB, 14% BB, 27.7% KAFL | .264/.400/.472 (.384 wOBA) 65 PA, 1 HR, 5 SB, 12 BB, 19 K Taylor entered 2025 as a top-100 prospect after demolishing High-A (154 wRC+), and left 2025 as […]...2026
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• After Some Tweaks, Rays Prospect Brayden Taylor Is Working to Put His Disappointing Season Behind Him

The promising young infielder is making swing adjustments after a down year with the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits....2026
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 18

Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images Forrest Whitley has been quite good since joining the Durham Bulls This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the 18th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), there is a new #1 in the Rays system and this newcomer Ja...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 17

Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images Baseball America has updated their top 30 to include the 2025 draft class This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the 17th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), there is a new #1 in the Rays system as ...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 16

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Brody Hopkins delivered a perfect inning during the Futures Game This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the 16th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the Rays farm system is 25-y...2025
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• Baseball America has updated their top 30 Rays prospects

Photo by Natalie Buchanan/Minor League Baseball Not so rosy an outlook for the system ahead of the 2025 MLB draft. We are more than halfway through the regular season and with that, Baseball America has updated their top 100 prospects in the game and their top 30 prospects within each team’s system. The entire list is behind a paywall, but I will highlight the top 10 as well as some of t...2025
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• Rays Trade Target: Byron Buxton

Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images The Rays are set to begin their final road trip of the first half in Minnesota on Friday, with an Independence Day matinee against the Twins. The postseason picture is becoming clear, and the Twins seem to be outside of it. On the other hand, the Rays find themselves in a three-team race for the AL East. On Thursday, the Blue Jays overtook the Yankees for sole pos...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 8

Photo by Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images T.J. Nichols had a stellar start and is getting national attention This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the eigth week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the ...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 7

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images One of the Rays top pitching prospects has landed on the Injured List This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the seventh week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in t...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List

Carson Williams #65 and Brayden Taylor #93 of the Tampa Bay Rays run off the field during the first ever spring training Spring Breakout game | Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Eleven new players enter the annual top prospect list. Welcome back to the annual DRaysBay Community Prospect List, a treasured tradition at the site where our community diligently votes ...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Lucas Braun strikes out nine

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Lucas Braun and Logan Samuels were impressive for the system in a poor Saturday slate If you’re disappointed in the Atlanta Braves on Saturday and looking for a pick-me-up this morning, you might wanna just not look at the scores for these games. The system got swept. However, two pitchers had outstanding days. The usual suspect, Lucas Braun, struck out nine...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 3

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Brayden Taylor wins the election for No. 2 in the system. Previous Winner Brayden Taylor, 2B/3B23 | L/R | 6’0” | 180A+ | .269/.389/.514 (154 wRC+) 383 PA, 14 HR, 26 SB, 15.9% BB, 24.8% KAA | .194/.290/.435 (113 wRC+) 125 PA, 6 HR, 3 SB, 12.0% BB, 36.8% K On the whole Taylor was one of the best performers in the Rays system last year, an...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 2

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images No. 1 goes to Carson Williams, surprise! To absolutely no one’s surprise, the organizations top prospect went to Carson Williams, a unanimous top five prospect in baseball and lauded as the best defender in minor league baseball, wins the first poll. But it wasn’t unanimous! We also got a vote for Brayden Taylor, the heir apparent to ...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 1!

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Let’s get it started! Welcome back to the 15th annual DRaysBay Community Prospect List! Starting this list is usually not a great challenge, as there is typically a clear favorite, but we will indeed be voting each round just to see if our community agrees with the greater blogosphere. The full rules on how to vote and links to resour...2025
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• DRB Prospect Review: #1 Junior Caminero

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Despite nagging injuries, Junior Caminero proved he could be a slugger in the big leagues Over the offseason, the Draybay community takes part in an exercise in which we compile a list of 30 prospects in the Rays system based on popular vote. Now that the 2024 season has concluded, we can look back at these rankings and see how each individual player p...2024
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"After Some Tweaks, Rays Prospect Brayden Taylor Is Working to Put His Disappointing Season Behind Him"

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"Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images 2023 1st round selection Brayden Taylor was among the six The Tampa Bay Rays continue to receive excellent grades regarding their farm system."

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"Here is the the top ten: Carson Williams, SS Brayden Taylor, 3B Tre’ Morgan, 1B Xavier Isaac, 1B Gary Gill Hill, RHP Trevor Harrison, RHP Santiago Suarez, RHP Chandler Simpson, OF Brailer Guerrero, OF Theo Gillen, OF Here are some of the fun tool grades given by Baseball America: Carson Williams: 70 Field | 70 Arm Tre’ Morgan: 65 Hit | 80 Field Xavier Isaac: 55 Run Santiago Suarez: 70 Control Chandler Simpson: 70 Hit | 80 Run Carson Williams has been the Rays consensus top prospect for over a year now as he is a five tool player with above average power and elite defense."

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"com/7hL93v0j8r— Mississippi State Baseball (@HailStateBB) February 26, 2023 Other sites had a second round expectation, FanGraphs ranked Ledbetter Number 45 (calling him a, “bankable, quick-moving bat”) and MLB Pipeline Number 49; nevertheless, Ledbetter (like Brayden Taylor) was one of seven players who attended the MLB Draft in person in Seattle as MLB continues to approximate other professional sports in developing the draft into a live event."

• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 18
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 16
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• 2025 MLB Draft: Rays select high school SS Daniel Pierce at No. 14 overall

$5.31 million slot value The Tampa Bay Rays have selected shortstop Daniel Pierce from Mill Creek (Ga.) High School with the No. 14 pick in the first round of the 2025 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Draft Spotlight: Daniel Pierce, SS, @MCHawksBaseball Pierce is a talented defender at SS & tons of feel to control the barrel & limit the S/M. More power to come with this frame. Loud...2025
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• Baseball America has updated their top 30 Rays prospects
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 15

Photo by Natalie Buchanan/Minor League Baseball via Getty Images The Rays top prospect has been placed on the Injured List This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the 15th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the R...2025
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• Rays Trade Target: Byron Buxton
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 14

Photo by Natalie Buchanan/Minor League Baseball via Getty Images Brody Hopkins will represent the Rays at the Futures’ Game This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the 14th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the ...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 13

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Rays top prospect, Carson Williams, is having a torrid June This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Tuesday. This was the 13th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the Rays ...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 12

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Eloy Jimenez began a rehab assignment This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Tuesday. This was the 12th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the Rays farm system has changed once again. 25-year old Trist...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 18
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 15
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 7
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 6

Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Suddenly Seymour is leading the Rays organization in homeruns This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the sixth week of minor league play with all of the Rays full season minor league teams having completed their first full week of pla; the Complex League ...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Lucas Braun strikes out nine
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 3
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 2
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• Biscuits Face Montgomery Jinx, Rebels No Hitters & Grey Sox History!

WHAT'S COOKIN, DOC? I am happy to mention that there are a couple new projects of interest coming up. Dr. Miraculous has been invited to feature as a co-host on a new podcast along with our good friend from the ballpark, Uncle Mikey, starting this fall. I will be offering background and detailed info as we discuss a variety of players, teams and fields that were involved in some o...2024
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 16
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 11

Photo by Joe Sullivan/MLB Photos via Getty Images Ian Seymour made his big league debut This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Wednesday. This was the 11th week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the Rays farm system has changed once...2025
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• Biscuits Face Montgomery Jinx, Rebels No Hitters & Grey Sox History!
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• Minor League Roundup: Week 18

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images 2023 1st round pick Brayden Taylor is reportedly being promoted to Double-A This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. We are now 18 weeks into the 2024 minor league campaign campaign and several prospects have certainly continued their ascent up the organizational la...2024
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• Minor League Roundup: Week 17

Photo by Ben Catapane/MLB Photos via Getty Images Tre’ Morgan is nearly hitting .400 since his promotion to High-A over a month ago This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. We are now 17 weeks into the 2024 minor league campaign campaign and several prospects have certainly continued their ascent up the organizational ...2024
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• Minor League Roundup: Week 16

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images Top prospect Junior Caminero already has three homeruns since beginning his rehab assignment last week. This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. We are now 16 weeks into the 2024 minor league campaign campaign and several prospects have certainly continued their as...2024
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• Minor League Roundup: Week 15

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Tre’ Morgan is on an offensive tear since being promoted to High-A This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. We are now 15 weeks into the 2024 minor league campaign campaign and several prospects have certainly continued their ascent up the organizational ladder whil...2024
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• Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 14

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images An offensive force since being drafted, Bob Seymour has now reached Triple-A This week’s minor league roundup will only features the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday as most of the Rays affiliates were in action. We are now 14 weeks into the 2024 minor league campaign campaign and several prospects have certainly co...2024
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• Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 13

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Curtis Mead has rediscovered his stroke since returing to Triple-A Every Monday during the regular season, each minor league team has the day off (excluding the Florida Complex League and Dominican Summer League). This serves as an excellent check point system to check in on how each team and individual prospect is performing. We are now 13 weeks into the ...2024
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• Six Rays prospects featured among Baseball America’s Top 100

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images 2023 1st round selection Brayden Taylor was among the six The Tampa Bay Rays continue to receive excellent grades regarding their farm system. Baseball America released their list of the top 100 prospects in the game entering the 2025 season and it featured six members of the Rays organization. 11. Carson Williams 65. Brayden Taylor 80. Tre’ Morgan 87. ...2025
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• Rays land 9 prospects on BP’s Top 101

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Carson Williams headlines the list of nine players The Tampa Bay Rays have landed nine players on Baseball Prospectus rankings of the top 101 prospects in the game entering the 2025 season. Here are where those 9 players ranked: 7. Carson Williams57. Brody Hopkins60. Jackson Baumeister67. Xavier Isaac69. Dominic Keegan70. Brayden Taylor...2025
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• Baseball America’s top 10 Rays prospects for 2025

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Carson Williams headlines an exciting crop of Rays prospects Baseball America has released their rankings of the Tampa Bay Rays top 10 prospects entering the 2025 season, as well as indicating which players have the best tools in the system. Here is the the top ten: Carson Williams, SS Brayden Taylor, 3B Tre’ Morgan, 1B Xavier Isaac, 1B Gary Gill Hill, RHP ...2024
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• MLB Draft 2023: Tampa Bay Rays select Mississippi State OF Colton Ledbetter at No. 55
Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Rays pick up a high impact bat in the second round. The Tampa Bay Rays have selected Mississippi State outfielder Colton Ledbetter with the No. 55 overall selection in the 2023 MLB Draft. And this selection is a steal for the Rays in the second round, with CBS Sports ranking Ledbetter the No. 28 prospect in the game (ahead of Rays first round selection T...2023
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• ESPN and The Athletic release Rays top prospect lists for 2024

Rays 2023 draft pick Colton Ledbetter | Photo by Gabriella Ricciardi/MLB Photos via Getty Images In a bit of happenstance, both ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel and The Athletic’s Keith Law have dropped their top prospect lists today for the Rays. Both lists are behind a paywall, so I’ll be avoiding the write ups on the players for this article, but you can gain a high level understanding of how both...2024
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• 14 Rays players ranked on various top 100 prospect lists

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images How deep this this system? The Tampa Bay Rays have one of the best farm systems in all of baseball and one of the most divisive when it comes to ranking the individual players within the system. The organization features a variety of players with higher floors that look like safe bets for becoming quality big leaguers, such as SS Carson Williams, INF Bray...2025
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• What to know about the Royals and the 2023 draft
Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Royals have a chance to add to their farm system. The Royals will add to their farm system this week with the annual MLB draft, to take place during All-Star week in Seattle. There have been some changes to the draft in recent years, so he’s what you need to know. When is the draft? MLB Network will begin coverage at 5 p.m. CT with the...2023
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• MLB Draft 2023: Tampa Bay Rays select TCU SS Brayden Taylor at No. 19
The Rays top pick of the draft is a low-risk collegiate SS/3B with mixed reviews The Tampa Bay Rays have selected collegiate infielder Brayden Taylor, who mans the left side of the infield for TCU. "This is a young man we've never seen struggle in college baseball." pic.twitter.com/Tilv8po8dt— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) July 10, 2023 And here’s the interview with the player: "This is ...2023

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• Keith Law’s Top 20 Rays prospects

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Law says that Carson Williams is the most enigmatic prospect in the minors Prospect season continues as Keith Law, the former front office exectuive, big league scout, and current writer for The Athletic, has released his Top 100 prospects entering the 2025 season as well as his Top 20 prospects in the Rays system. Keith Law seems lowe...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 18
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List
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• Tre’ Morgan: The Rays’ Next Swiss Army Knife

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Elite Bat-to-Ball Skills, Defensive Versatility, and a High Floor Make Tre’ Morgan Prospect to Keep an Eye on The Rays reported to Port Charlotte about two weeks ago, and with 72 players on the active Spring training roster, the Rays are looking at all options for the present and future. One of those exciting players of the future is Tre’ Morgan. Morgan w...2025
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• Keith Law’s Top 20 Rays prospects
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• Rays announce 30 Non-Roster Invites to Spring Training for 2025

Joey Krehbiel returns | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Via team press release. The Tampa Bay Rays announced today that 30 players on minor league contracts have been invited to major league spring training in 2025. The following is a positional list of the non-roster invites joining the Rays in Port Charlotte, Florida. RIGHT-HANDED PITCHERS (13): Garrett Acton, Alex Cook, Michael ...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 3
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• Biscuits Face Montgomery Jinx, Rebels No Hitters & Grey Sox History!
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: AJ Smith-Shawver strikes out seven

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Smith-Shawver’s changeup was dominant, but the Bulls clocked him for three home runs It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had a weekly report as I’ve been working on the draft and the our top 30 list, but it’s time again to talk about the observations over the past week in the Atlanta Braves minor league system (or past two, or three, wherever I see fit to...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Nacho Alvarez hits a home run

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Alvarez has now gone deep five times for Gwinnett in 18 games Gwinnett’s offense suddenly seems high-powered, with them torching the St. Paul Saints for another double digit performance. Nacho Alvarez keeps on hitting for the Stripers, and while I am not of the opinion that he is ready it is going to steadily amplify the voices that w...2024
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• MLB Mock Draft: Where do Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford end up?
Looking at how the top three stack up, along with the rest of the first round The 2023 MLB Draft is just days away. And the Pittsburgh Pirates have a fascinating decision on their hands. Do they add Paul Skenes, the LSU pitcher who was dominant this season and looks like he could step into an MLB rotation right now? Or do they draft his teammate Dylan Crews, the outfielder who brings five tools to...2023
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