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My Braves Top 30 Prospects

In the “I’m not an expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn” mind of things, I’m going to present my Braves Top-30 Prospects. Over the last 5 years, I’ve watched a lot of minor league ball and have learned quite a lot on talent evaluation. While I’m still a little bit reactionary when it comes to ranking prospects, I do feel that small sample is something to pay attention to in development. Sometimes it’s a HUGE swing adjustment like Orlando Arcia made to keep his bat in the zone longer, a simple adjustment from Braden Shewmake to add some launch angle, or it’s a tighter delivery from Kyle Muller to change everything in terms of his prospect grade (hat tip to David Lee on this last one because he provided video evidence and WOW, what a difference!