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Braves may have struck gold with undrafted potential future closer

The Braves signed four undrafted free agents, and one of them could become their next power-armed closer.

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Undrafted free agents are talented players who might have been taken if rounds 21-40 still existed. Don’t look down your nose at them because they were ranked highly, if at all. The long list of UDFA who had impactful careers after a scout fought to get them signed includes Hall of Famer Bruce Sutter.

Braves have gone heavy on pitching when it comes to undrafted free agents so far

A lot of good undrafted players have worn the Tomahawk; Paul Assenmacher, Darren O’Day, Kirby Yates, and current Brave that the team misses badly, Joe Jiménez, were all ignored in the draft.