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• 2024 Community Prospect List: Vote for #8

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Please join us in selecting the community’s best rated prospects The Battery Power community has selected a Community Prospect List as long as I can remember. This is exactly what this is. We’ve selected the first seven already. Owen Murphy won the vote for number seven. This is the vote for number eight. Per CoachfromdaCouch: Owen Murphy ea...2024
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• Braves News: Chris Sale Named NL Cy Young Finalist, Atlanta Acquires Nick Allen, More

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Another busy Monday for the Braves. Monday brought some expected and unexpected news for the Braves. The major but expected news of the day for Atlanta was that Chris Sale was named a finalist for the 2024 NL Cy Young Award. The other Finalists are Zach Wheeler and Paul Skenes. While both Wheeler and Skenes are certainly deserving to be recognized ...2024
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• 2024 Braves Prospect Season in Review: Owen Murphy

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Owen put together an absolutely sensational start to the season, pitching one of the best games amongst all minor leaguers, before being betrayed by his elbow. How Acquired Owen was the Atlanta Braves’ first round draft pick in the 2022 MLB Draft. Preseason Report Card Owen was drafted as a more advanced prep pitcher in the 2022 draft. He threw average to abov...2024
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• 2024 Community Prospect List: Vote for #7

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Please join us in selecting the community’s best rated prospects The Battery Power community has selected a Community Prospect List as long as I can remember. This is exactly what this is. We’ve selected the first six already. Nacho Alvarez won the vote for number six. This is the vote for number seven. We have had members handle this list via the fanposts system, ...2024
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• 2024 Atlanta Braves Midseason Top 30 Prospects: 1-6

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images We’ve reached the pinnacle of our list, and the top name is a familiar one in this spot It’s time to talk about the best prospects in the Atlanta Braves system, and many of the names at the top of this list are ones that have are repeats from our preseason list. The only significant graduation this year has been Spencer Schwellenbach, leaving the tal...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: John Gil gets two hits in Augusta debut

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Gil joined Luis Guanipa and Junior Garcia in the GreenJackets lineup Friday It’s a new-look Augusta GreenJackets lineup, as they have completely rebuilt the roster with the promotions of top Atlanta Braves prospects Luis Guanipa, John Gil, and Junior Garcia. This trio all have impressed in the Florida Complex League, and I gave some of my ...2024
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• 2024 Braves Prospect Season in Review: Owen Murphy
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• 2024 Atlanta Braves Midseason Top 30 Prospects: 1-6
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• Braves Minor League Recap: John Gil gets two hits in Augusta debut
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• Braves 2024 MLB Draft Preview: RHP

Brody Brecht | Lee Navin/For the Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Taking a look at how the Braves may approach RHP in the 2024 MLB Draft. The Atlanta Braves draft pitchers early and often in the MLB Draft almost every year, so it’s a safe bet that they draft a right-handed pitcher early in the 2024 MLB Draft. I say safe bet because the way the draft sets up, the right-handed pitchers project t...2024
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot

Credit: Garrett Spain - Battery Power Alvarez and Drake Baldwin led the Gwinnett offense this past week It is hot outside, but the earth isn’t the only thing scorching. The Atlanta Braves system is picking up steam, with Nacho Alvarez and Drake Baldwin excelling in their promotions to Triple-A. Blake Burkhalter and Lucas Braun led the pitchers last week, then down lower in the system Rober...2024
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• Atlanta Braves 2024 MLB Draft Primer

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Everything you need to know leading into the draft on July 14 We are just a few weeks away from the 2024 MLB Draft, and over the next couple of weeks we’re going to be rolling out a series of articles previewing the draft. To start it all off, this post is a brief primer with all of the information you might need to keep up with and prepare...2024
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Alvarez had a home run and .850 OPS for Gwinnett last week It’s getting hot in the south, and so to are some of the top prospects in the Atlanta Braves system. Nacho Alvarez had a great week in Gwinnett with another home run, along with a home run from Drake Baldwin. Isaiah Drake’s numbers in Augusta fell off, but he still showed grea...2024
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• Braves Mailbag: Buying or selling, Max Fried, and more

Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The first part of this week’s mailbag centers on whether the Braves should be buyers or sellers at the Trade Deadline, the minor league system and much more It has been as rough a stretch for the Atlanta Braves, the likes that we haven’t seen since 2017. While the team has struggled to put together wins, the good news is, there is still plenty of ...2024
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• Braves Prospects weekly report: Hurston Waldrep shines after Triple-A promotion

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Waldrep struck out 11 in a busy week for pitching prospect news It has been a relatively tame year for the Atlanta Braves system, with the bats starting out slow at every level and major promotions fairly limited. Then they hit us with a flurry, promoting Spencer Schwellenbach for his major league debut and then promoting Hurston W...2024
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• Braves Prospects Stock Watch: Hurston Waldrep leads rising pitching wave

image: Mills Fitzner, Rome Braves Everything clicked for Waldrep in May, as his strike throwing stepped forward and he dominated in Mississippi’s rotation May is in the books, and it was certainly one of the months of the year for the Atlanta Braves. The good news is, despite the mediocre results at the major league level it seems there is going to be some help coming in the future. Partic...2024
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"Owen Murphy continued his good start to the season over the weekend for the Rome Braves."

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"Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The system pulled off a sweep across three games, with Shewmake, McHugh, and Owen Murphy providing the big performances We had our first really great night on the farm as all three Atlanta Braves affiliates that played their scheduled games took home runs."

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• 2024 Braves Prospect Season in Review: Owen Murphy
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• 2024 Atlanta Braves Midseason Top 30 Prospects: 1-6
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• Braves Minor League Recap: John Gil gets two hits in Augusta debut
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• ESPN projects RHP Brody Brecht to Braves in latest Mock Draft

Lee Navin/For the Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The Iowa Hawkeyes ace struck out 35.7% of batters in his college career Kiley McDaniel of ESPN recently updated his updated draft rankings, and now two days before the start of the 2024 MLB Draft he has posted his third mock draft. There isn’t much surprise to me here to see where Atlanta goes, as McDaniel has them taking Iowa Hawkeyes right h...2024
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• Braves MLB Draft Target Profiles: Braylon Doughty

Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Braylon Doughty is a very intriguing prep pitcher that has been linked to the Braves for the 2024 MLB Draft. With the MLB Draft just days away we’re going to continue coverage to preview the draft, looking at some names connected to the Atlanta Braves. Today’s look will be at Braylon Doughty, a prep arm considered as a likely under-slot option...2024
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• Braves 2024 MLB Draft Preview: RHP
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot
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• Atlanta Braves 2024 MLB Draft Primer
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot
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• Jurrangelo Cijntje to Braves in ESPN mock draft

Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The switch-pitcher once again finds himself connected to Atlanta Another mock draft on the slate, this time from ESPN and Kiley McDaniel, and it’s another common connection with the Atlanta Braves projected to select Mississippi State switch-pitcher Jurrangelo Cijntje at 24th. Cijntje was rated by McDaniel as the 36th-best prospect in ...2024
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• 2024 Braves Prospect Season in Review: Owen Murphy
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• 2024 Atlanta Braves Midseason Top 30 Prospects: 1-6
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• Braves Minor League Recap: John Gil gets two hits in Augusta debut
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• Braves 2024 MLB Draft Preview: RHP
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot
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• Braves Prospects weekly report: Hurston Waldrep shines after Triple-A promotion
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• Braves Prospects Stock Watch: Hurston Waldrep leads rising pitching wave
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• What to Expect in Spencer Schwellenbach’s major league debut

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images It’s an exciting time for Braves fans as they’ll have a chance to be introduced to one of the brightest pitching talents in the organization If we’ve said it once we’ve said it 100 times: once you get to Double-A in the Atlanta Braves system you immediately become a candidate for a major league call up. There is overwhelming surprise around baseball at ...2024
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• Braves prospects weekly report: Waldrep, Schwellenbach make up M-Braves two-headed monster

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images The duo took their dominance to a new level last week as Mississippi swept their series in Chattanooga We have a hybrid article for you this morning, as the Mississippi Braves decided they wanted to play on Memorial Day so we’re going to start off with a quick recap of that loss. Then it’s on to the weekly report, where once again the system...2024
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• Braves 2024 MLB Draft Preview: RHP
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• Braves Prospects weekly report: Hurston Waldrep shines after Triple-A promotion
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• Braves prospects weekly report: Waldrep, Schwellenbach make up M-Braves two-headed monster
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• Braves prospects weekly report: Ian Mejia’s no hitter, Spencer Schwellenbach’s promotion

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Mejia is the breakout player of the 2024 season What a week it was for Atlanta Braves prospects. Throughout the system there were dominant pitching performances - from Owen Murphy’s eleven strikeouts to Spencer Schwellenbach’s stellar Mississippi debut. Yet none matched Ian Mejia, the man who missed (most) top 30 lists and yet has been Missi...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: AJ Smith-Shawver tosses five scoreless

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images The young righty struck out five in his stellar performance. It was a jam-packed day down on the farm with games from the morning all the way into the night. So, let’s dive into it. (13-14) Gwinnett Stripers 5, (10-18) Durham Bulls 0 (Game 1) J.P. Martinez, LF: 2-3, 2B, 2 R David Fletcher, 2B: 2-3, RBI Yuli Gurriel, 1B: 2-3, RBI, R AJ...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 25, 2024

The red-hot Brooks Baldwin rounds third to score in Chattanooga versus the Lookouts. | S. R. Silver/South Side Sox Brooks Baldwin cannot be stopped, Lenyn Sosa continues to mash, and other storylines from the farm Lehigh Valley IronPigs 7, Charlotte Knights 6 (Gameday score) (Statcast box)Lenyn Sosa was demoted three days ago. He seems to have taken that personally. LENYN. SOSA. HOME. ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy dominates in Emperors opener

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Murphy pitched into the seventh as Rome won their first ever game as the Emperors It was a glorious Friday for Atlanta Braves fans, as up at the big league level they won an exciting home opener. Then down at the minor league level the final three affiliates had their opening days, giving us our first full slate of baseball of 2024. There we...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: Owen Murphy continue strikes out nine for Augusta

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images The 2022 first-rounder has struck out 26 batters this month. While Atlanta’s affiliates came away with a .500 record on the day, there were a few bright spots on the day as Owen Murphy continued a successful August and Stephen Paolini homered twice on Friday. (54-62) Gwinnett Stripers 4, (67-51) Durham Bulls 6 Daniel Robertson, DH: 1-4,...2023
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• Battery Power 2023 Midseason Top 25 Braves Prospects: 1-5
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images In one of the easiest decisions we’ve ever had, AJ Smith-Shawver once again tops our prospect list We have reached the pinnacle of the Atlanta Braves system, and the name at the top of this list will come as no surprise to anyone. While the rankings from 2-5 were close and could go in many different orders, the people within that range were a clear tier of...2023
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Braden Shewmake homers; McHugh continues rehab
Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The system pulled off a sweep across three games, with Shewmake, McHugh, and Owen Murphy providing the big performances We had our first really great night on the farm as all three Atlanta Braves affiliates that played their scheduled games took home runs. Up in Triple-A Braden Shewmake has been playing well as of late and the same...2023
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• Braves farm system ranks dead last in Kiley McDaniel’s rankings
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Unsurprisingly, Atlanta’s system bottomed out in McDaniels’ rankings The lead up to the start of spring training is always filled with preseason prospect lists and various system rankings. That continued Friday with the release of Kiley McDaniel’s farm system rankings over at ESPN. The Braves were shutout of his Top 100 list earlier this week and unsurpri...2023
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• Braves News: Rosario’s heroics win game, Owen Murphy, more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday Owen Murphy is having an interesting first full season of pro ball down on the farm. The 2022 first rounder is striking out upwards of 12 batters per 9 innings, but he’s walking a bit too many for comfort and allowing his fair share of home runs, so his FIP is only a solid but unspectacular ...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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• Battery Power’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year is AJ Smith-Shawver

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The pitching class this year was strong, but the young flamethrower stood out among the crowd We continue our look into the best of the best in the Atlanta Braves system. In part one of our awards series we covered the minor league player of the year, and today we are going to cover the best pitcher in the Atlanta Braves system. It should come as little s...2023
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• Braves News: Yonny Chirinos makes Braves debut, top 5 prospects, and more
Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday The Atlanta Braves survived Friday night’s back-and-forth affair with the Milwaukee Brewers and came out on top 10-7. Yonny Chirinos made his Braves debut, the offense erased quite a few deficits, and the Braves finally got back in the win column. Here are the highlights: Chirinos had an underwhe...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 Minor League recap: Owen Murphy continue strikes out nine for Augusta
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• Braves Minor League Recap: John Gil gets two hits in Augusta debut
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• ESPN projects RHP Brody Brecht to Braves in latest Mock Draft
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez stays hot
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• Braves Mailbag: Buying or selling, Max Fried, and more
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• Braves Prospects weekly report: Hurston Waldrep shines after Triple-A promotion
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• Braves Prospects Stock Watch: Hurston Waldrep leads rising pitching wave
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• Braves prospects weekly report: Waldrep, Schwellenbach make up M-Braves two-headed monster
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• Braves prospects weekly report: Ian Mejia’s no hitter, Spencer Schwellenbach’s promotion
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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’ prospect Owen Murphy to have Tommy John surgery

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Owen Murphy’s development will be put on hold for now. It has been rumored for several days, but Atlanta Braves pitching prospect Owen Murphy is headed for Tommy John surgery according to a report by MLB Pipeline’s Jonathan Mayo. Murphy last pitched on May 14 for Rome. There's been some buzz about this out there, but I can confirm that ...2024
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• What to Expect in Spencer Schwellenbach’s major league debut
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 25, 2024
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• Braves News: Bally Sports Spring Training Schedule, Spencer Strider, More

Photo by Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How to watch the Braves throughout Spring Training. Could one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball be getting a deeper arsenal of pitches? That was the speculation on Monday when Spencer Strider went head-to-head with Austin Riley and Matt Olson in live batting practice at Spring Training: Spencer Strider working on a new pitch...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 2023 Draft Preview: Left Handed Pitchers
Stanford’s senior lefty Quinn Mathews could provide day two value for Atlanta. | Photo by Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Left handed pitching is a notable weak point early in this draft, but deepens as it gets into day two and beyong As we continue along with our 2023 MLB Draft coverage here at Battery Power we’re going to take a look at the depth of left handed pitching i...2023
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• 2023 MLB Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports Who are these guys? Well, we did 29 of these, so we may as well round out the set, right? The Atlanta Braves won 101 games during the 2022 season and captured their fifth straight NL East title. However, they ran into a buzzsaw in the postseason and fell to the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS. Despite the disappointing finish, the Braves have an exceptional y...2023
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