The Braves under Alex Anthopoulos have been very reluctant to trade “top prospects” even if their path to the major leagues was blocked or at least tough. AA valued the team control of these young guys very highly and up until today, he hadn’t parted with a consensus top 10 guy in the Braves system.
Emphasis on until today.
Not since the John “Wheel and Deal” Coppolella era have we seen a trade close to the magnitude of what the Braves pulled off in acquiring Matt Olson from the Oakland Athletics and most of those trades were the Braves getting a bunch of prospects back and not the other way around.