Mock Draft season rolls on with The Athletics’ Keith Law releasing the fourth version of his first-round projection. For the Atlanta Braves, Law projects Florida Gators right-hander Hurston Waldrep to Atlanta with the 24th pick.
This feels low given Waldrep’s pure stuff, with a splitter that’s one of the best offspeed pitches in the entire draft, but there seem to be only a few teams in the teens that are strongly on him, and he’s probably going after Lowder, Dollander, and now perhaps Floyd. Atlanta is linked to a bunch of player types – I’ve heard it with Mitchell, Wilken, Peete of course as a local kid – and some fairly random names for later rounds like North Carolina prep catcher Luke Stevenson and California prep shortstop Boston Baro.