George Lombard was not a name that stuck out to me in my memory banks of all-time great Atlanta Braves prospects. But when Kris Willis — the man who keeps the all the wheels and gears moving behind Talking Chop — requests a name for our Atlanta Braves Prospect Retrospect series, you say, “sure thing.”
What I found out is that Lombard was indeed once a top 100 prospect in all of baseball — four times to be precise. But that’s not even half his story.
Let’s take a look back at the Braves 1994 MLB draft picks life and times.