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• Braves once again bring back Jesse Chavez

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images He’s back. Again. This is the song that never ends. The Atlanta Braves are very busy looking for any type of arms who can help them at this point. That includes names from both the past and the future and the two tracks converged this morning as the Braves have once again dipped their toes into an extremely familiar well. Jesse Chavez is back. Again. The ...2025
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• Braves News: Injured list moves, starting rotation finalized, and more

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. The Atlanta Braves open the 2025 season tomorrow (!!!), which calls for several injured list moves ahead of the opener in San Diego. Tuesday afternoon, the Braves announced that Ronald Acuña Jr., Nacho Alvarez Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, and Joe Jiménez had each been placed on the injured list, retroactive to ...2025
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• Bryan De La Cruz hits monster homer as Braves wrap up perfunctory Spring Training

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images There was a big homer and the Braves once again relied on Zach Thompson to eat a bunch of innings Was Crowded House singing about Spring Training when they recorded “Don’t Dream It’s Over?” Well, they may as well have been. Because now, Spring Training 2025 for the Braves is in the books, and they’re off to San Diego to kick off the season on Thursday after...2025
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• Braves move Ronald Acuña Jr., Nacho Alvarez. Jr, Joe Jiménez, Sean Murphy and Spencer Strider to IL

Photo by Scott Audette/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta makes some procedural IL moves ahead of the start of the regular season The Atlanta Braves made some IL moves today, with Opening Day just two days away from today. None of these moves are particularly surprising, either but it’s still worth talking about, just to get an idea of who’s available, who’s not available and also a gener...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Infielders

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images A return to form by the team’s starting infield would go a long way toward lifting the Braves back to the playoffs in 2025. Coming into the 2024 season, the Atlanta Braves’ infield looked to be among the best in the National League. Matt Olson was coming off a 54-homer campaign with a 161 wRC+. Austin Riley had produced three consecutive 30+ home run cam...2025
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• Austin Riley should return to action in a few days, per reports

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Riley and the Braves skirt a serious injury after he was hit by a pitch. This afternoon, there were multiple reports that Austin Riley took batting practice and should return to Spring Training action in the coming days. This is great news for Riley and the Atlanta Braves after Riley was hit by a pitch on the wrist yesterday. Austin Riley took BP in the...2025
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• Bryan De La Cruz hits monster homer as Braves wrap up perfunctory Spring Training
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• Braves move Ronald Acuña Jr., Nacho Alvarez. Jr, Joe Jiménez, Sean Murphy and Spencer Strider to IL
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• Austin Riley should return to action in a few days, per reports
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• Braves bench battle baffles

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Competition for the final position player roster spots is still wide-open. More than a week’s worth of Spring Training games are in the books for your Atlanta Braves. In less than four weeks, the Braves will be wrapping up their first regular season series with the San Diego Padres. With the team’s starting line-up pretty much a given...2025
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• Braves News: Bryce Elder shaky, Nacho Alvarez exits, and more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday. The Atlanta Braves had a back-and-forth affair Thursday night in a spring training clash with the Washington Nationals. Ultimately, the Braves won it 4-3. Bryce Elder made his second appearance but first start of the spring. He turned in a shaky start, lasting 2.2 innings, giving up two ear...2025
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• Bryce Elder has up-and-down start for Braves against Nationals in spring training action

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta’s mercurial hurler had himself another, well, mercurial performance. Bryce Elder’s first spring training start in 2024 was a proverbial rollercoaster ride where the peaks and valleys varied with each inning while he was out there on the mound. Eventually, he averaged out to having a decent outing as the Atlanta Braves were on...2025
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• Chris Sale pitches two strong scoreless innings as Braves start spring training action

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Exhibition baseball is still baseball! The Atlanta Braves got their spring training campaign for 2025 started in the same way that they likely intend to start their regular season campaign: With Chris Sale looking good on the mound. Sale pitched two clean innings that went by in the blink of an eye as the Braves began their Grapefruit League season with a...2025
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"Looking down in the minors … well, there aren’t a lot of good position player prospects, but there are two who are near the majors – Nacho Alvarez and Drake Baldwin."

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"It seems like I can never get both Drake Baldwin and Nacho Alvarez in the lineup at the same time in one of my recaps, so for today it’s Drake Baldwin’s chance to get the focus."

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"Baldwin led off the inning with a double and Nacho Alvarez was not far behind with one of his own to get a run on the board."

• Braves News: Injured list moves, starting rotation finalized, and more
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• Braves move Ronald Acuña Jr., Nacho Alvarez. Jr, Joe Jiménez, Sean Murphy and Spencer Strider to IL
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• Braves News: Bryce Elder shaky, Nacho Alvarez exits, and more
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• Braves News: Quantity for the bullpen, Hurston Waldrep, more

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday Well it appears that Orlando Arcia is once again the clear shortstop for 2025 in Atlanta. He has a club option, so could easily be the shortstop next year as well. That said, I don’t think anyone is particularly thrilled with Arcia as the starting shortstop in this lineup, even as he is a service...2025
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• Battery Power Top 30 Prospects: Best Tools, Position Players

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Nacho Alvarez is one of five hitters that graced our top 10 prospects, and is our pick for the best hit tool in the system. We had many of you in our Q&A session on Friday asking for a best tools segment relating to the top 30 prospects list. Fortunately, we already had one planned out and voted on by the in the chamber to run this week. To start out we ar...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves Preseason Top 30 Prospects: 1-6

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Number one is exactly who you though number one would be We have come to the final installment of our 2025 top Atlanta Braves prospects, and the first thing I would like to do is thank everyone who followed along and who has contributed to the list. Without the staff here we couldn’t give you guys such in depth coverage of the Braves system, and with...2025
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• Baseball Prospectus ranks Drake Baldwin as Braves top prospect

Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Another ranking and another top spot for the 23-year-old catcher. Baseball Prospectus is the latest organization to release their top prospect list this month, with their 2025 preseason Top 10 list featuring Drake Baldwin as the Atlanta Braves’ top prospect. Drake Baldwin's breakout 2024 season leads him to the top of our new look @Br...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves Preseason Top 30 Prospects: Honorable Mentions

Photo by Samuel Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves have started to build out depth in the system, with multiple top 30 honorable mentions with helium heading into 2025 The long offseason is finally drawing to its close, with football fans outside of Kansas City and Pennsylvania begging for better days to look forward to. Well, if you like the Atlanta Braves you should be in ...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Dylan Dodd strikes out six

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Gwinnett scored big early, and Dodd was able to hang on to help them to a win (72-75) Gwinnett Stripers 9, (70-76) Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 4 Box Score Statcast Nacho Alvarez Jr, 3B: 1-4, .298/.402/.471 Drake Baldwin, DH: 1-4, BB, .294/.406/.481 Chadwick Tromp, C: 1-2, 3 BB, .310/.385/.467 Dylan Dodd, SP: 4 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB,...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Ian Mejia throws six shutout innings

Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images Mejia capped off his season with Mississippi by throwing another fantastic game (69-74) Gwinnett Stripers 1, (67-74) Buffalo Bisons 4 Box Score Statcast Nacho Alvarez Jr, 3B: 0-3, BB, .300/.407/.484 Drake Baldwin, C: 0-3, BB, .292/.405/.484 Domingo Gonzalez, SP: 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 3.81 ERA Tyler Matzek, RP: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Lucas Braun strikes out 10

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images Braun extended his system lead for total strikeouts this season For the first time this season we are down to just two, with only Gwinnett and Mississippi in action in the Atlanta Braves system. Great pitching marked both games, with Bryce Elder and Lucas Braun each succeeding in their own ways, but only one team gave their starter run su...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Rome eliminated from playoffs

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images JR Ritchie had a solid outing, but Rome couldn’t give him the run support to extend the series to a third game It wasn’t the best of days for the Atlanta Braves Minor League system. None of the affiliates won and Rome was decisively swept out of the playoffs despite some solid work from JR Ritchie. Still some guys did shine, with the best T...2024
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• Atlanta Braves Minor League Recap: Blake Burkhalter Shines in Game One Loss

Kim Klement-Imagn Images The bats couldn’t get it going down in Rome, while they couldn’t slow down up in Gwinnett (0-1) Rome Emperors 1, (1-0) Bowling Green Hot Rods 3 Box Score Kevin Kilpatrick Jr. CF: 1-for-4, .238/.319/.332 Drew Compton, 1B: 2-for-3, RBI, BB, .285/.387/.405 Stephen Paolini, LF: 2-for-4, .220/.314/.323 Blake Burkhalter, SP: 5IP 4H 1ER 0BB 4K, 1.80 ERA Rome dropped gam...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: AJ Smith-Shawver strikes out 11

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Smith-Shawver got ten whiffs with his changeup while Drake Baldwin went deep in a Stripers loss It’s the final full Saturday on the farm system, and there were a few exciting pitching prospects in action in the Atlanta Braves system. AJ Smith-Shawver wielded his splitter to great effect in Triple-A, striking out 11 batters over seven innings. Lucas Brau...2024
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• Braves release Spring Breakout 2025 rosters

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The young players get a chance to shine in just under two weeks time. 10 days from now, the Atlanta Braves will participate in the now-annual Spiring Breakout series of games, where each team plays one spring training game where the focus is placed squarely on the top prospects on each organization. Each tea has officially released their r...2025
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• Braves News: Drake Baldwin, bullpen, spring training invites, more

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday It was a good day for Drake Baldwin, as he got a spring training invite and landed on ESPN’s top 100 prospects list. It does appear that he will start the season at AAA, especially after The Athletic’s David O’Brien reported that Sean Murphy is expected to start roughly 80% of the Braves’ games this season, which ...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Dylan Dodd strikes out six
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Nacho Alvarez Jr. homers for Gwinnett

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Alvarez Jr. drove in three runs in the Stripers’ win. Atlanta’s minor league affiliates went .500 on the night as Gwinnett and Augusta came away with wins while Mississippi and Rome were dealt a loss each on the night. (68-68) Gwinnett Stripers 7, (71-63) Nashville Sounds 1 Nacho Alvarez Jr., 3B: 1-5, HR, 3 RBI, R Alejo Lopez, 2B: 2-5, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R Just...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Drew Compton hits two home runs

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images Compton led Rome to a win, their sixth straight The Rome Emperors are heading to the playoffs next week, and they seem to be getting hot at the right time. They’ve now won six games in a row, this one being headlined by two home runs and six RBIs from Drew Compton. Elsewhere in the Atlanta Braves system the Gwinnett Stripers won behind six innings of one ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: JR Ritchie filthy on a stormy Saturday

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Ritchie was once again dominant in an Augusta win It was a muddy day on the Atlanta Braves farm, with three of the four levels being significantly impacted by rain. Still, all four games got played to some extent at least and we saw a few intriguing performances. The best of these came from JR Ritchie, who has exceeded all hopes with such a short rec...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 Minor League Recap: JR Ritchie perfect in season debut
Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Ritchie struck out seven over three perfect innings to lead Augusta to a win The Atlanta Braves system had a lot of action on Saturday evening, and JR Ritchie was the star of the show with his performance in Augusta. Drake Baldwin also impressed, bringing the lumber to lead Rome to a win. (2-11) Gwinnett Stripers 1, (9-5) Memphis RedBirds 5 Box Score...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Brooks Wilson makes his return
Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Wilson hadn’t pitched since 2021 after undergoing Tommy John surgery last spring Despite some not-so-exciting final scores, it was a night to rejoice on the Atlanta Braves farm system as we had two big injury returns. Brooks Wilson made his first rehab appearance for the Rome Braves while down in the Florida Complex League Roddery Munoz pit...2023
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• Braves Minor League recap: Jared Shuster tosses seven scoreless in Gwinnett win

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Shuster struck held the opposition to just two hits on the day for the Stripers. Despite one game getting rained out, it was a successful day for Atlanta’s MiLB affiliates as the three teams in action swept their games. Jared Shuster dazzled, Joe Hudson homered twice, David McCabe drove in three and Jhancarlos Lara struck out eight in a talent-filled day. ...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Braden Shewmake notches two hits
Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images Shewmake was the bright spot in an otherwise atrocious performance from the Stripers The Atlanta Braves had a day off on Thursday, and that made their minor league system the center of attention for the day. Unfortunately that turned into a frustrating evening as the system got swept thanks to some unexciting offensive performances. (2...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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• Braves 2023 Minor League Preview: Augusta Greenjackets
JR Ritchie | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Low-A affiliate in Augusta may have the most interesting pitching staff in the Braves system. As we’ve reached March we’re closing in on the start of another season of Minor League Baseball for the Braves, as that season opens on March 31 this year - at least for Triple-A, as the rest of the minors get underway on April 6. With that ...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Alan Rangel strikes out 10
Alan Rangel | Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Braves system split four games on Sunday with the biggest performance on the day coming from Alan Rangel. Sunday saw everyone in the system in action on Mothers Day, and we witnessed a real gem from Alan Rangel while David McCabe continued to be very productive since the calendar flipped to May. Nashville Sounds 6, Gw...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Nacho Alvarez carries Rome to win
Credit: Garrett Spain - Battery Power Alvarez has now hit safely in five straight games as he drove in two of Rome’s three runs. It was a relatively forgettable day down on the farm for Atlanta’s MiLB affiliates, as only two of the six came away with wins on the day. (36-49) Gwinnett Stripers 1, (41-41) Omaha Storm Chasers 7 Vaughn Grissom, SS: 2-4, 2B Luke Williams, RF: 2-3, BB Jared S...2023
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• Braves release Spring Breakout 2025 rosters
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• Atlanta Braves Split Squad Game Thread

Spencer Schwellenbach makes his spring training debut | Brett Davis-Imagn Images Reynaldo López takes the mound against the Redsox and Spencer Schwellenbach takes on the Pirates The Atlanta Braves are running a split squad today where they will face the Red Sox in a home game and the Pirates in an away game. Reynaldo López will be making his 2025 spring training debut against old Braves fr...2025
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez hits two home runs

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Gwinnett swept their series last week behind the bats of Alvarez and Drake Baldwin The minor league season is quickly coming to a close, as the two lowest level Atlanta Braves affiliates will be playing their final regular season home series of the season this week. At the upper levels the near-MLB players are starting to find their stride, as Nacho Alvarez and...2024
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